Prince Harry ‘Knew’ of Shocking Claims Made in Upcoming Explosive Memoir by Princess Diana’s Brother

Earl Charles Spencer‘s new memoir is expected to drop some major bombshells on the monarchy, but Prince Harry apparently had a heads up.

Multiple sources told Page Six in an article published Wednesday, September 16, that the Duke of Sussex, 42, was made aware of what was being written about in Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister (out September 22).

“Harry knew what was in the book — it didn’t come as a shock,” one source claimed.

According to the publication, the Spare author discussed the upcoming memoir’s contents with his uncle, 62, during a visit to the Spencer family’s Althorp Estate in Northamptonshire when he and wife Meghan Markle were in the U.K. over the summer.

In Swan Song: Diana, My Sister (according to the Daily Mail), Spencer recounts an alleged argument he had with his sister’s ex-husband, now King Charles III, regarding how Princess Diana‘s funeral would play out.

Diana was 36 when she died on August 31, 1997, following a car crash in Paris. At the time, Prince William was 15, and Harry was 12.

Charles, now 77, allegedly insisted that William and Harry would walk in her funeral procession — leading to a disagreement between him and his former brother-in-law.

According to Spencer, during their alleged dispute, Charles said to him: “Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough!”

In Harry’s 2023 memoir Spare, he said that his uncle called the decision to have him and William walk in Diana’s procession “barbaric,” per Page Six.

While the royals rarely respond to stories like this, a palace spokesperson issued a statement after the Mail‘s article went live. “While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss,” the statement said, per People.

When announcing the book, Spencer said (according to Reuters) that the “aim of this book is to tell the truth about Diana from her brother’s perspective, just as I attempted to do when speaking at her funeral.”