"He sounded like he won the lottery when she was killed": Princess Diana's brother against King Charles
Princess Diana's brother, Earl Charles Spencer, launches a frontal attack against King Charles III in a new book, revealing harsh phone conversations from the days of mourning her death in 1997. Spencer claims the King sounded "giddily euphoric" in a call about Diana's death, and said "we'll forget her quickly" during an argument over funeral arrangements. The palace responds that grief clouded his memory, but Spencer stands by his words.
Earl Charles Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, launches a frontal attack against King Charles III in his new book "The Swan's Song: Diana, My Sister," set to be published next week. Spencer reveals harsh phone conversations he had with the King in the days after Diana's death in a car accident in Paris in 1997. In the first call, where he was informed of her death, Spencer claims Charles sounded "giddily euphoric," as if he had "won the lottery." Later, a heated argument erupted over the palace's demand that the two young princes, William and Harry, walk behind their mother's coffin. Spencer claims that during the argument Charles "lost his temper and raged," and after falling silent said: "We'll forget her quite quickly." Spencer hung up on him. Buckingham Palace responded that the King is aware that "the pain of sibling grief can cloud reason and color memory." Spencer replied that the palace "obfuscated this," and that he speaks the truth. The revelations threaten to re-ignite the monarchy's public relations crisis from the late 1990s.