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Earl Spencer’s unreleased book about his sister Princess Diana was stolen from a truck containing four Dutch-language copies while en route to a publisher’s warehouse in the Netherlands earlier this week. The theft occurred during a mandatory driver rest stop, and Dutch police are currently investigating. Penguin Random House's UK division and Overamstel Publishing, which holds rights for the book in the Netherlands, have been approached by the BBC for comment but did not provide any additional details about the incident’s location or timing.
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Copies of Earl Spencer's upcoming memoir "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister," which includes revelations about Princess Diana's life and death, were stolen from a truck in the Netherlands. The theft occurred while the truck was parked overnight during the driver’s mandatory break; four copies in black plastic wrappers were taken from thousands being transported to various warehouses. This incident happened just days before the book's release on Tuesday and its serial publication by the Daily Mail. Dutch police are investigating, with industry insiders speculating about the audacity of stealing such a highly anticipated book that details the Royal Family’s crisis following Princess Diana's death in 1997.
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Copies of Earl Spencer's unreleased book on his sister Diana, Princess of Wales, have been stolen from a truck in the Netherlands.
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The BBC understands four copies of the Dutch language edition were taken from a truck while it was en route from the Dutch publisher's printers to their warehouse.
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Dutch police said they were aware of the incident and have been approached for comment.
Swan Song: Diana, My Sister is due to be released in the UK and globally on Tuesday, and tells the story of Princess Diana's life from the Earl's perspective.
A source said the truck driver was taking a mandatory break in a car park and was sleeping in his cab at the time the books were stolen.
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They added Dutch police are investigating.
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They did not say where the theft took place.
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The Daily Mail, who first reported the theft, external and is serialising the book, said the theft took place earlier this week in the Dutch countryside.
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theft → report → countryside
The book's publisher Penguin Michael Joseph - a division of Penguin Random House - and Dutch publisher Overamstel, who have rights to the book in the Netherlands, were approached for comment by the BBC.
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Princess Diana, who died aged 36 following a car crash in Paris in 1997, would have turned 65 on 1 July this year.
Her sons Prince William and Prince Harry were aged 15 and 12 respectively at the time of her death.
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Last month announcing the book's publication, Earl Spencer explained ahead of the 30th anniversary of her death he had been inundated with interview requests and he wanted to write down his own thoughts and memories rather than "having the discomfort of again reading the opinions of others".
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The aim of this book is to tell the truth about Diana from her brother's perspective, just as I attempted to do when speaking at her funeral," he added, referring to the eulogy he delivered in Westminster Abbey in September 1997.
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"I want to speak on Diana's behalf and do so in an openly positive way."
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In his eulogy, Earl Spencer described Princess Diana as the "very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty", adding: "All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity... a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden."
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she → describe → downtrodden
He also used the speech to criticise the media, calling her the "most hunted person of the modern age" and pledged to protect Prince William and Prince Harry and prevent them suffering a similar fate.
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them → use → fate
In 2023, copies of Prince Harry's memoir Spare were accidentally put on sale in Spain days ahead of the official global release.
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copies → put → release
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