Charles Spencer represents all that I detest in our class-riven country. An aristocrat, raised to believe he is better than us commoners; a serial divorcee; as entitled as most of the rest of his class is. Yet today, I feel I must defend him. As I did his sister.

His book Swan Song: Diana, My Sister has just been published. Monarchists are up in arms. Slings and arrows from the Palace, royal commentators and loyal royalists keep on coming. In my view they want to kill the book before it reaches too many people. Which is why I, an avowed republican, read it.

Spencer is at times annoyingly self-justifying, but most of the book is credible and candid, laying bare the cruelties of this class and its victims. And vitally, it re-centres the late Diana, Princess of Wales, whom the Palace and royal acolytes have been wiping from national memory for many years.

By 2012, the year of the Queen’s Jubilee, PR guru Mark Borkowski confidently said Diana had been “airbrushed out” and one columnist lamented that the erasure was complete and the Firm had won.

This is what happened to Prince Harry too. I........

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