From Sally Bedell-Smith — Diana suffered, too, of course. But she created considerable collateral damage, as her brother is doing now. Three months after Diana’s death I talked to David Ker, a devoted friend of Diana’s who also traveled in Prince Charles’s circle and knew everyone in the British aristocracy. “Charles Spencer has the same self-destructive impulse as Diana,” he said. “He obviously won’t listen to advice.” While King Charles has his faults—chief among them a quick temper and tendency toward self-pity—it should be said that he never returned Diana’s fire. When he authorized a biography by Jonathan Dimbleby in 1994, he set strict boundaries. As Dimbleby explained to me after Diana’s death, “Prince Charles never judges her, directly or indirectly. The only words he has said in public have been to praise her…He was obsessed that I not reveal anything I learned that would reflect adversely on her. I honored that.”