Buckingham Palace hits back over claims made in Earl Spencer book
The palace said grief can cloud memory after Spencer alleged Charles said Diana would soon be forgotten.
- 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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The death of Princess Diana comes back to haunt the British monarchy: her brother, Charles Spencer, accuses his former husband King Charles III of having said shortly after the tragedy that she would soon be forgotten, which the palace hastened to deny. ...
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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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King Charles disputes claims in book by Princess Diana's brother
The war of words between the king -- who was married to Diana for 15 years -- and Charles Spencer featured on the front pages of several UK newspapers on Thursday. Buckingham Palace issued an unusually strong statement after Spencer claimed in his new memoir that days after Diana died in 1997 the future king said to him: "Rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough." A palace spokesperson said late Wednesday they do not normally comment on books,…
Princess Diana's BROTHER, Charles Spencer, claims in the memoir that King Charles said after her death that she would be forgotten.
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