Nearly three decades after Princess Diana died in a Paris car crash, her brother Earl Spencer has offered another deeply personal account of the hours surrounding the tragedy, this time describing what he claims was the late Queen Elizabeth II’s initial reaction to the news.
In an extract from his forthcoming memoir Swan Song: Diana, My Sister , Charles Spencer claims the Queen responded “tetchily” when she first heard that Diana had been involved in a traffic accident in Paris, asking: “What is she up to now?” The account was reported by The Sun .