Charles Spencer's book ‘heist' trails suspicious link to Palace: report

Just few days before Charles Spencer’s much-anticipated memoir, Swan Song, Diana, My Sister, was set to hit the shelves, an unexpected heist has raised a few eyebrows.

The book, which is slated for a release on Tuesday, four copies were stolen were reportedly stolen from the lorry, which was on its way to Netherlands. It occurred when the driver had stopped overnight to sleep.

Since the book is written by the Earl of Spencer about his sister, the Palace was not obliged to get a copy or give an approval of some sort. However, it doesn’t mean that there is simmering tensions and the unprecedented statement from the Palace has been proof of that.

Sources cited by New Idea have claimed that the suspicious activity is garnering attention towards the Palace.

“No one’s shocked that copies were stolen from a delivery truck in the Netherlands but it’s certainly triggered the conspiracy theorists,” an source told the outlet. 

“Now people can’t decide if it was a very successful publicity stunt for the book or if the Palace decided they needed four advance copies and sent someone to get it.”

They continued, “A thief who cracks a trailer doesn’t always know what’s inside so selecting just those four is why it’s raised so many eyebrows. The King has faced down more than one tell-all biopic before, but it’s fair to say this one does have the potential to cause him problems.”

The source added that Diana’s brother knew that he was going to ruffle a few feathers with this book and it’s clear how mere pages from the book has gauged a reaction from Buckingham Palace.

“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 colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss,” a spokesperson from the Palace said on behalf of King Charles.

The excerpt that prompted the action had been about a phone call between the then-Prince Charles and grieving brother of Diana, discussing whether William and Harry, then 15 and 12, would walk behind their mother’s casket during the funeral procession.

“Prince Charles continued his stream of anger, without me interrupting. Then he stopped. I assumed the pause signalled an effort to bring himself under control, but then he unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death,” Spencer alleged. “‘Rest assured,’ he hissed, ‘we’ll forget her soon enough!’”