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<p>It’s been nearly 30 years since <a href="https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2026/08/prince-william-blamed-king-charles-for-dianas-death-source-claims/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Princess Diana was killed in a car accident</a> while running from paparazzi.</p>
<p>And we’re still learning new details that make her story seem even more tragic.</p>
<p>A memoir by Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, will be published next week.</p>
<p>And as expected, Spencer shares some highly unflattering recollections of Diana’s ex-husband, King Charles.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="756" src="https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-73389945-1024x756.jpg" alt="The Prince and Princess of Wales attend a welcome ceremony in Toronto at the beginning of their Canadian tour, October 1991." class="wp-image-563365" srcset="https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-73389945-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-73389945-300x222.jpg 300w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-73389945-768x567.jpg 768w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-73389945-2048x1512.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-73389945-960x709.jpg 960w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-73389945-1080x797.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-73389945-1200x886.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The Prince and Princess of Wales attend a welcome ceremony in Toronto at the beginning of their Canadian tour, October 1991.<span class="image-caption-credit"> (Photo by Jayne Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images)</span></figcaption></figure>
<p>Spencer writes that Charles sounded “giddily elated – like a lottery winner” on the night of Diana’s death.</p>
<p>Later in the book, he flashes further back and shares a harrowing story about the week of his sister’s wedding.</p>
<p>“On the day of Diana’s wedding I woke early and went to Clarence House, where I found her already in her wedding dress, sitting quietly in front of a mirror,” Spencer writes in an excerpt published by <em><a href="https://www.dailymail.com/news/royals/article-16135285/Earl-Spencer-book-revelation-bombshell-one.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Daily Mail</a></em>.</p>
<p>“Only much later would I discover that, as she confided to a close friend, her husband-to-be had told her the previous day that she needed to know he was very happy to marry her, but he was not actually in love with her.” he continues, adding:</p>
<p>“Diana had to absorb that hammer blow while also feeling certain that Prince Charles was entering their marriage with his heart elsewhere.”</p>
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<p>This was not the first indication Spencer had had that Diana and Charles’ relationship was less than ideal.</p>
<p>“A month after her engagement, she had been photographed in tears saying goodbye to Prince Charles as he was about to board a plane on official business,” he writes.</p>
<p>“Newspapers cooed with delight at what they thought to be the pain of a lovestruck innocent being parted from her fiancé. The truth was very different. Diana was completely at sea, having found a bracelet that Prince Charles had bought for Camilla.”</p>
<p>Later, Spencer recalls that Diana tried to end the engagement on multiple occasions, but she was told by several people — including her own father — that it would not be possible to do so.</p>
<p>Diana struggled with an eating disorder throughout her adult life, and Spencer says the situation was exacerbated by Charles’ remarks about her weight.</p>
<p>“Her insecurity was increased a few days after the engagement announcement when Prince Charles had squeezed her waist and said, ‘Oh, a bit chubby here, aren’t we?’” Spencer writes, adding:</p>
<p>“This was a comment she found devastating (she would later share with me that her waist shrank from 29 to 23½ inches between her engagement and her marriage).”</p>
<p>These days, of course, Charles is king, and he’s married to the woman with whom he carried on an affair while he was married.</p>
<p>We all know that life isn’t fair. But sometimes, the gap between the life a person deserves and the one they get is so massive that all we can do is shake our heads.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2026/09/king-charles-told-princess-diana-that-he-didnt-love-her-one-day-before-their-wedding-brother-claims/">King Charles Told Princess Diana That He Didn’t Love Her One Day Before Their …</a> was originally published on <a href="https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com">The Hollywood Gossip</a>.</p>
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