King Charles Not Doing Well After Princess Diana’s Brother’s Bombshell Claims About Him
Weeks after Princess Diana‘s brother, Earl Charles Spencer, released his memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, with some scathing claims about King Charles’ alleged behavior after he learned of the princess’s death, the monarch reportedly isn’t doing too well.
In the book, Earl Spencer alleged that then-Prince Charles sounded “giddily elated, like a lottery winner” during a phone call with him the night Diana was killed following a car crash in Paris and said, “Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough.”
In a rare move, the Palace pushed back on that claim with a response that read: “While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss.”
During his promotional tour, Spencer fired back in an interview with the BBC, telling the outlet, “Is he [King Charles] furious, or is he embarrassed? … I’ve only ever had two calls on the line with then-Prince Charles at any stage of my life. I was hyper-alert to what he was saying … and I promise that to you now, genuinely, that is what he said. I don’t hear him saying he didn’t say that.”
Some of Princess Diana’s former staffers then spoke out and defended the king, including Diana’s butler, Paul Burrell, who told talk show host Piers Morgan, “He speaks about the king being giddy with excitement when Diana died. Well, I was in Paris. I saw the king. He was a broken man. He was devastated.”
The former butler added that when King Charles and Diana’s sisters exited the room where the princess’s body was, the royal had clearly been crying, recalling, “His eyes were bloodshot. He was pale and he was scared. I don’t recognize what Earl Spencer says about then-Prince Charles.”
Whether or not King Charles really did say those words, the allegation is now out there and it isn’t sitting well with those who believe it. But those aren’t the only claims Spencer made about the king. He also wrote that Diana wanted to end her marriage because the then-Prince Charles was in love with his valet. Although he did not name that valet.
Sources are now saying that these explosive claims are affecting the monarch, telling Closer UK, “The worst part is that he’s [King Charles] now having to worry about who will come after him next, and what they might say; it’s left him totally on edge. He can’t sleep, he’s hardly eating, and he’s so short-tempered … Camilla is trying to be sympathetic, but she doesn’t have a whole lot of patience because she’s going through her own turmoil with all of this; she feels attacked, too.”
Spencer is being sued by media personality Piers Morgan for putting an inaccuracy about where the journalist worked in his book. Morgan wrote on X, “Earl Spencer has apologized to me for his defamatory lies published in his new book … But I am pursuing legal action against him and his publisher Penguin to have the lies removed, and damages paid to the King’s Trust.”
In a separate post, Morgan said, “Earl Spencer’s account of our phone call is also deeply misleading. I was neither surly nor annoyed, but instead, very respectful to him and his family, as I wrote in my diaries, The Insider. It would seem that Spencer’s recollection of phone calls is very suspect.”
