'Diana’s wounds ripped open again – but William and Harry must not pay the price'

'Diana’s wounds ripped open again – but William and Harry must not pay the price' Excerpts from Earl Spencer's book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister – Earl Spencer, have been published — and have sparked an "unprecedented" response from Buckingham Palace Nearly 30 years after Princess Diana’s death, the wounds surrounding her tragic life and marriage are being torn open once again. Earl Spencer’s claims about King Charles are extraordinary and deeply damaging. He alleges the then-Prince sounded “giddily elated like a lottery winner” when telling him Diana had died. Buckingham Palace strongly disputes his account. Only those involved know exactly what was said in those dreadful days of grief and turmoil. Spencer is entitled to give his account of what happened to the sister he adored. But amid these painful revelations, he must spare a thought for nephews William and Harry. They lost their mother when they were just 15 and 12. Now they must absorb allegations suggesting their father responded to her death with something approaching relief. Diana remains loved and remembered by millions, while William and Harry have borne the consequences of this tragedy for almost three decades. Whatever truths still need telling, their grief must be treated with care. They should not be made to pay, yet again, for the mistakes and bitterness of an older generation. We must modernise NHS hospitals It is shameful that patients went into NHS hospitals for treatment and ended up being put at greater risk by the wards themselves. Nurses describe suffocating temperatures, frail patients deteriorating, newborn babies struggling to breathe and cancer patients dripping with sweat during chemotherapy. Most appalling is the account of a dying patient whose wounds became infested with maggots. If true, it is a disgrace in a modern health service. Nurses should be caring for the sick, not desperately trying to stop hospital wards becoming unbearable heat traps. The warnings have been there for years. Hotter summers are no longer some distant threat, yet too many hospitals remain woefully unprepared when temperatures soar. That failure now has a human cost. Ministers must treat safe hospital temperatures as a matter of patient safety and launch a properly funded programme to modernise NHS wards. Coleen’s hairdryer treatment Wayne Rooney spent years at Manchester United getting Sir Alex Ferguson’s legendary hairdryer treatment. But years of headlines about wayward, boozy nights mean Wazza knows wife Coleen’s heat is far fiercer. Now reality TV cameras are inside Rooney Towers - a place where Wayne admits to battling to stay out of the doghouse.