Protector of Diana's memory or thoughtless adulterer. The Earl's funeral speech single-handedly crystallised the public mood, the grief and devastation at the tragic death of the world's best-known woman. Yet Earl Spencer once represented only an alien upper class to the British public. He has blackened the press, yet also worked as one of them, spoken movingly of blood ties yet been unfaithful to the mother of his children. Barber follows Charles Spencer through a life of glamour and power, weakness and loneliness, and reveals a chameleon-like but very human figure.