Charles sounded 'giddily elated' after Diana’s death, claims Earl Spencer

Earl Spencer doubles down on claims about ‘monstrous’ call with King Charles after Diana’s death

Charles Spencer, Diana’s brother, claims the king told him ‘we’ll forget her soon enough’ Earl Spencer has doubled down on his bombshell claim that King Charles said of Diana, Princess of Wales, “rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough” days after her death, saying he is telling the truth. The alleged comments, revealed in Charles Spencer’s memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, which is being serialised in the Daily Mail, prompted Buckingham Palace to issue an extraordinary statement suggestin

Sep 18, 2026

‘Like a lottery winner’: Charles ‘elated’ after Diana’s death, her brother’s new book claims

Earl Spencer’s book claims the then-Prince Charles seemed “giddily elated” in the immediate aftermath of Diana’s death in a car crash in 1997, possibly because he felt it meant he was freer to marry again.

Sep 17, 2026

Charles sounded 'giddily elated' after Diana’s death, claims Earl Spencer

In latest extracts from upcoming memoir, Diana’s brother suggests some in Buckingham Palace were ‘relieved’ at her death The brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, has claimed in published extracts of his new memoir that King Charles sounded “giddily elated – like a lottery winner” in a phone call to him immediately after her death. Earl Spencer also says he believed Buckingham Palace wanted William and Harry and himself to walk behind Diana’s coffin because the then Prince Charles was “a

Sep 17, 2026

Charles 'giddily elated' on night Diana was killed, her brother claims

Princess Diana's brother has accused King Charles III of sounding "giddily elated, like a lottery winner" on the night his ex-wife was killed in a car crash almost three decades ago.

Sep 17, 2026