John Crace satirises Charles Spencer’s memoir about Diana, portraying the earl as self-important, melodramatic and convinced that he alone understood his sister. The article mocks his globally praised funeral eulogy, his claims about their privileged childhood and his recollections of the royal family, suggesting the book turns Diana’s story into an opportunity for personal glory and profit.

The parody highlights Spencer’s grandiose language, resentment towards the Windsors and hostility towards Raine Spencer, while exaggerating his memories of Diana’s death and the 1997 funeral. It also ridicules the book’s digressions into aristocratic family history, royal gossip and Spencer’s supposed central role in managing the aftermath, presenting the memoir as self-indulgent ahead of the 30th anniversary of Diana’s death.