- Copies of Earl Spencer's upcoming memoir about his sister Princess Diana, titled Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, have reportedly been stolen from a truck in the Netherlands ahead of its planned global release on 22 September.
- Dutch police are investigating after a lorry travelling from a printing plant was broken into during a driver's break in a lay-by, with four copies of the book discovered missing.
- Described by publisher Penguin Michael Joseph as the most intimate portrait yet of Princess Diana, the memoir is expected to reveal new details about her marriage, treatment by the media, and the week leading to her 1997 death.
- Earl Spencer stated that he wrote the book to tell the truth about his sister from his own perspective and counter accepted untruths ahead of the 30th anniversary of her death.
- The theft comes amid heightened attention on the royal family following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's recent shock decision to move back to the UK with their two children.
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