I think Prince Philip was right about Harry and William regretting later on not walking behind their mother's coffin, and instead of Harry whingeing about "being made" to walk, we'd have gotten "they didn't allow us to walk." Philip understood all the pressures his grandsons were facing; he had the tragedy of losing his sister and her husband and sons and he walked behind their coffins when he was sixteen.

Earl Spencer has no room to claim the moral high ground, and he doesn't give a flying caboose about how this book affects William and Harry or even his sisters, Sarah and Jane--especially Jane, because of her late husband's position.