Adam Fleming

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Newscast · Buckingham Palace Hits Back Over Diana Book · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

So he's a historian. voice-verified

So he's written quite a lot of books already. voice-verified

I was then remembering a couple of years ago he wrote a memoir about his time at his private school. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And he then did lots of interviews around that, saying he'd had to have quite a lot of therapy to process the really serious discipline he went through at that school. voice-verified

So I just wonder if like he's been on a bit of a journey as a as a writer that's kind of brought him to this point. voice-verified

Mm. voice-verified

Let's go back then to to September nineteen ninety seven. voice-verified

And this is gonna end up being a bit like an episode of old newscast, but but today. voice-verified

Um so Diana died in the tunnel in the car crash in France at the end of August nineteen ninety seven. voice-verified

There was then that immense kind of outpouring of national grief. voice-verified

Just remind us what what what that was like at the time. voice-verified

And just a reminder of how intertwined the families were, Earl Spencer is the late Queen's godson. voice-verified

And then September the 6th, which was the day of Diana's funeral, it was a Saturday, and I'm showing my age now, but I mean I can remember like it was yesterday. voice-verified

I can picture myself sitting, probably sitting on the floor in the living room, watching it, and being just amazed that this event was was happening in this way. voice-verified

And the first sort of glimpse we got of what this event was going to be like was the procession of the the coffin on the voice-verified

it was great that they'd done it. voice-verified

And if and if is that is what he said after the death of his ex-wife, that caps off a very, very fractious, nasty period. voice-verified

between Charles and Diana because it that that that decade long of their split up was so horrible. voice-verified

Um a really interesting thing to do today though has been to rewatch Earl Spencer's eulogy from the funeral. voice-verified

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