Earl Spencer Insists He's Telling 'Truth' over King Allegations
Earl Spencer says he told the truth about the alleged call and cites contemporaneous accounts as Buckingham Palace disputes his version.
- Buckingham Palace issued a rare direct response on Wednesday to memoir claims that King Charles, then Prince of Wales, allegedly said "we'll forget her soon enough" regarding Princess Diana during funeral arrangements.
- The dispute centers on whether Princes William and Harry, then aged 15 and 12, should walk behind their mother's coffin during the 1997 funeral procession; Earl Spencer claims he objected to the decision.
- In a BBC interview, Earl Spencer insisted he was "hyper-alert" during the call and that "those are precisely the words he said," telling the broadcaster he had only ever spoken twice with Prince Charles in his life.
- Palace spokesman stated "the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory," echoing Queen Elizabeth II's 2021 "recollections may vary" response to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
- The full BBC interview with Laura Kuenssberg airs Sunday at 6:30pm on BBC One; the memoir Swan Song: Diana, My Sister publishes next Tuesday, with the 30th anniversary of Diana's death approaching in August.
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Charles Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, makes new statements about the relationship between his sister and King Charles in the book "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister. One of the most controversial reports is about a supposed telephone conversation after the death of Diane, in which the princess's ex-husband would have had an extremely harsh reaction to it. The British Royal House unusually conveyed a view before the volume appeared.
Diana's brother Charles Spencer confirms serious accusations against King Charles III. The palace has already clearly rejected the information from Spencer's new book.
Earl Charles Spencer has made a series of serious accusations against King Charles III and the British royal family in his new memoir, describing his deep dissatisfaction with the events following the death of his sister, Princess Diana.
Earl Spencer, brother of Princess Diana, told the British broadcaster BBC that he is telling the truth by reporting a telephone conversation he had with then Prince Charles in the days following his sister's death. According to Spencer, the phone call occurred during a discussion about the participation of Princes William and Harry in the funeral procession, when he questioned whether the two teenagers should walk behind the coffin. Diana's brot…
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