Princess Diana wanted to become US first lady, claims Charles Spencer

Princess Diana considered the possibility of becoming first lady of the United States after an American politician courted her, her brother Charles Spencer revealed in his new book "Swan Song: My Sister".

Spencer wrote that Diana once asked him if he thought she'd make a good American First Lady.

He said his sister approached him after one of her "many powerful aging American suitors, keen to secure her as the ultimate trophy wife, had told her he was sure to win the presidency if she married him."

He said that Diana was more "titillated" by the idea of living in the White House than by the prospect of marrying the "would-be elderly husband."

Diana, he said, had a "mischievous attraction to reinventing herself in a role that would make her enemies in the British Royal Family sick with jealousy, while ushering in an era of glamour in the White House that would surely have surpassed even that of the Jackie Kennedy years."

Charles Spencer's memoir published on Tuesday, nearly 30 years after Princess Diana's death, contains a series of allegations about his sister's former marriage to Britain's King Charles and the aftermath of her death.

Spencer writes that ‌then-Prince Charles had told him "we'll forget her soon enough" during an angry phone call after Diana's death, following what he said had been a disagreement over whether her sons Princes William and Harry should walk behind their mother's coffin.