Palace responds to Earl Spencer’s claims about King Charles — Cyprus Mail
In the United Kingdom, the royal palace responded to claims by Earl Charles Spencer about the conduct of King Charles III after the death of Princess Diana in 1997. The palace statement said that the pain of losing a sister can cloud the mind, affect judgment and alter memories even many years later. This was reported by Cyprus Mail.
In the book “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,” published on September 22, Spencer claims that the then-Prince Charles, during a telephone conversation on the day of Diana’s death, August 31, 1997, was “joyfully excited, as if he had won the lottery.” In an interview with the BBC, Spencer said he could not be certain of this interpretation of the other person’s tone and suggested that Charles may have felt relieved at the prospect of marrying Camilla.
Calls after Diana’s death
The Cyprus Mail author questions the chronology and interpretation of these claims. According to the sequence presented in the article, this call took place after Charles told William and Harry about their mother’s death, but before he flew to Paris with Diana’s two sisters to bring her body back to Britain.
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Spencer also spoke about another telephone conversation that took place several days before Diana’s funeral on September 6, 1997. He objected to 15-year-old William and 13-year-old Harry walking behind their mother’s coffin. According to his version, Charles became angry over this position, criticized the Spencer family’s sense of duty and said that Diana would be “forgotten quite quickly.”
Palace statement
Ultimately, William and Harry walked behind Diana’s coffin together with Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Earl Spencer from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey. In his memoir “Spare,” Prince Harry confirmed that Spencer opposed the brothers’ participation in this procession, but did not confirm the earl’s assumption that his claims about Charles would not have come as a surprise to William and Harry.
The Cyprus Mail author considers Spencer’s claims to be potentially subject to a defamation lawsuit, but notes that the king is unlikely to go to court. In the author’s view, Charles would then have to testify and undergo cross-examination.
