India, Sept. 25 -- Who has the right to tell your story? I only ask because all of this week, the media have been hyperventilating about Earl Spencer's book about his sister, Diana, Princess of Wales, called Swan Song. As I write this column, the book is yet to be released but some jaw-dropping extracts have appeared in the British media and the Earl himself has been doing the rounds of television studios to flog his version of events that occurred nearly three decades ago, when his sister died in a tragic car crash in Paris.

According to Spencer, King Charles (then the Prince of Wales) sounded "giddily elated" like a "lottery winner" when he spoke to him after his sister's death. He goes on to add that a heated phone call ended with Cha...