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King Charles Responds to Claims About Princess Diana in Rare Statement
Confirmed
In Short: King Charles III responded to allegations in Charles Spencer's memoir, 'Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,' which claims the prince expressed 'pent-up contempt' for his late sister-in-law.
, Buckingham Palace issued a rare statement addressing the claims, noting that grief can affect memory and judgment.
Spencer's book recounts a conversation with Charles shortly after Diana's death, where the prince allegedly expressed anger and contempt.
What's confirmed
- “Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough,” Charles allegedly told Spencer.
- "Prince Charles continued his stream of anger, without me interrupting. Then he stopped. I assumed the pause signaled an effort to bring himself under control, but then he unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death," Spencer alleged, according to the Daily Mail.
What's still developing
- Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Arrow In the memoir, Spencer claims he had tried to stop his nephews, Princes William and Harry, from being paraded through the streets for Diana’s funeral because it would have been against her wishes, according to Daily Mail which is serialising the memoir.
- Spencer said Charles called him, saying he had walked in his great-uncle’s funeral procession decades prior and so William and Harry should walk in their mother’s procession.
- Buckingham Palace issued a rare response to the allegations, noting it does “not comment on books as a matter of principle”.
- Daily Mirror associate editor Russell Myers told Sunrise the royal family was potentially in damage control and trying to fire back at Spencer with the statement.
- “I don’t think anyone expected Buckingham Palace to issue a statement of any shape or form,” Myers said.
- He said Spencer’s memoir has been “causing quite some concern at the palace” with further allegations expected to be revealed in coming days.
- Shocking allegations have been leveled toward King Charles III in a new memoir written by the late Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer.
- Spencer’s book Swan Song: Diana, My Sister recounts his conversation with Charles, the then prince of Wales, just days after her tragic death in August 1997.