Buckingham Palace hits back over claims made in Earl Spencer book
Buckingham Palace disputed the memoir account as Earl Spencer repeats an alleged phone row over William and Harry walking in Diana’s funeral procession.
- Buckingham Palace issued a rare statement yesterday regarding Earl Charles Spencer's new memoir Swan Song, addressing allegations that King Charles told him "rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough" shortly after Princess Diana's 1997 death.
- The allegation stems from a 1997 dispute over funeral arrangements for Diana, where Spencer objected to Prince William and Prince Harry, then aged 15 and 12, walking behind their mother's coffin in the procession.
- Responding to the claim, a spokesperson said Charles is "mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason," suggesting such trauma can affect judgment and colour memory even many years after a loss.
- Although the monarchy rarely comments on books as a matter of principle, this intervention emphasizes the significance of the accusation, which Spencer claims corrects "untruths" told about his late sister since her fatal crash in Paris.
- The funeral procession, which also included Prince Philip, remains a subject of widespread public debate, with Spencer pledging in his eulogy that Diana's "blood family" would protect the young princes from duty and tradition.
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Hunt: King Charles is ‘clearly absolutely incandescent’ about Charles Spencer’s book
Wednesday evening’s British newscasts and talk shows were full of commentary about the Earl Spencer’s extraordinary revelation about King Charles. Charles Spencer writes in Swan Song, his memoir of his sister Princess Diana, that days after Diana’s 1997 death, he and then-Prince Charles got into a heated argument over whether Prince Harry and Prince William […] Source
The British royal family breaks with its own principles and addresses Diana's brother's sensational claim in new book
Count Charles Spencer will publish in the next few days a book in which he talks about the days after the tragedy; the Royal Family denied the statements.
Diana will soon be forgotten. These are very heavy words that Count Spencer attributed to Charles III, to put back to the chronicles his version of the facts about the history and life of his sister, the Princess of Wales. Excerpts from the book "The Singing of the Swan." Diana, my sister" began to be published [...] The article "The sorrow brought by the mourning of a brother can cloud the reason": King Charles furious at the revelations (and a…
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