Charles Spencer is testing one of the lingering questions of our time: can the world ever get enough of his sister, Diana, Princess of Wales?It turns out the controversy surrounding her life has not faded nearly 30 years after her tragic death. In fact, Spencer's new book, "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister" (to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press), has pulled the scabs off some old wounds, especially when he recounts an unsettling conversion he says he had with Diana's ex-husband – now King Charles – shortly after she died: "He said about Diana, 'We'll forget her soon enough.' And he said it, I can't really recreate it, but it was said with a bit of a hiss, to be honest. And I said, 'I can't believe you said that.'" Penguin Press You'd have to have been living under a rock not to know Diana's story … the daughter of one of England's grand aristocratic dynasties, chosen at just 19 to be the bride of the then-Prince Charles. Their seeming fairy-tale wedding, which turned into a rocky marriage, that ended in a bitter divorce. Her tragic early death in a Paris car crash. It was a riveting, if sad, real-life soap opera, with an apparently insatiable worldwide audience. But why do a new boo...











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