Princess Diana’s brother has accused King Charles of ‘gaslighting him’ after the Palace issued a rare response to bombshell claims made in his book.
Earl Spencer’s memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, is due to be released next week, but extracts serialised by the Daily Mail have already caused backlash.
In one, he alleged that the now king had said in the wake of Diana’s death: ‘Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough.’
The claim prompted the palace to issue a highly unusual statement, claiming that fraternal grief can ‘cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory’.
That did not stop more extracts from the Earl’s book being published, including one which claimed that King Charles seemed ‘elated’ on the day Princess Diana’s died.
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In the wake of the late Princess of Wales’ death in 1997, at the age of 36, Earl Spencer said the now-king was one of many callers to offer their condolences.
But the conversation with Charles was a little different to others. ‘Unlike my other callers, who were stunned, barely able to articulate their condolences and offers of help, he sounded giddily elated – like a lottery winner, I remember thinking at the time,’ he wrote.
And speaking with Laura Kuenssberg in an upcoming BBC interview, the Earl also compared Harry and Meghan’s treatment during their time as working royals to his sister’s.
As fresh bombshell claims emerge, Metro is keeping up with all the latest updates about the unfolding saga here.