Overview
- On Monday, Earl Charles Spencer published Swan Song and gave interviews asserting that Diana showed key childhood signs of ADHD and probable dyslexia.
- Spencer cites multiple contemporaneous school reports noting short concentration spans, restlessness in lessons, and difficulty with spelling and word order as evidence.
- He says his own late diagnosis of very severe adult ADHD allowed him to recognise similar traits in Diana and that both he and his sister experienced intense rejection sensitivity described in the book.
- The coverage stresses limits to the claim because Diana was never formally tested during her life and because terms like rejection sensitive dysphoria are descriptive rather than formal clinical diagnoses.
- The memoir connects to wider family discussions of attention difficulties, including prior public comments by Prince Harry, and may prompt fresh public and clinical discussion about how historical behaviour is interpreted.