The mystery of Princess Dianas death lives on, nearly 30 years later

The book is “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister.” Penguin Press.Author: Eton-educated journalist Charles Spencer, a k a 9th Earl Spencer, whom I know and who lost his adored sister Princess Diana in August 1997.A copy was delivered to me before he crossed the ocean to meet every US reporter this side of Guam.It explains her future king husband hissed, and here’s his Page 121 quote, “We’ll forget her soon enough.”Page 128: “Diana was made to feel as if she was stupid.”Chapter 22’s “A Permanent Quest to Bring Her Down” states, “I used to fear that a terrible accident could take place.”Spencer’s quote: “I always believed she’d be killed in the end.

It was only a matter of time.”Buckingham Palace did not favor her.And her husband was “extremely jealous of Diana’s star power,” Spencer writes.As for the night it happened, its how/what/why/who is never reported on.

Only how “the Queen looked smart and composed in a black dress for the funeral.” Only how “the Queen was seen in the streets outside the royal palaces thanking people for their kind condolences.”And then — it was all over.Done.

Yesterday’s news.Happened 30 years ago.In today’s world, with phones and TV, there’s 24-hour dish.

A wacko zaps a homeless person in a subway? Big bold newspaper headlines.Photos.

Reminiscences from friends.Chat shows nobody’s heard of discussing the story.

Princess Di gone? Social media and AI will tell every detail.Accident? Skilled driver? Royalty? In public? And nobody knows nothing?Would seem somebody knows something.But nobody says anything.

We have podcasts, radio, newspapers, marchers schlepping placards, airplane skywriters, supermarket ads, devotees, chewing gum wrappers, T-shirts — and not one single body reporting what might appear to have happened?His Majesty the King — with infirmities and how the book treats him, and how the world views the rest of his family — is not sending copies of this for the holidays...