Buckingham Palace hits back over claims made in Earl Spencer book
A palace spokesperson said grief can cloud memory as it rejected Earl Spencer’s account of a private funeral conversation.
- 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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In a book to be published on Tuesday, Charles Spencer recounts a tense exchange with the then Crown Prince about his sister's funeral.
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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
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