{"id":898701,"date":"2026-09-20T08:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898701\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T08:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:42:12","slug":"earl-spencer-claims-king-charles-is-gaslighting-him-amid-drama-surrounding-upcoming-memoir-swan-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898701\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Spencer claims King Charles is \u2018gaslighting\u2019 him amid drama surrounding upcoming memoir Swan Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earl Spencer has claimed that King Charles<\/a> is \u201cgaslighting\u201d him amid a feud sparked by \u201cexplosive\u201d claims<\/a> in the earl\u2019s upcoming memoir<\/a>, Swan Song. <\/p>\n

In his memoir, the earl claimed that following his sister Princess Diana\u2019s death, the King said<\/a>, \u201cwe\u2019ll forget her soon enough\u201d. Buckingham Palace then released a statement<\/a> denying the claim. <\/p>\n

\"Earl<\/p>\n

Earl Spencer\u2019s new memoir Swan Song details the life of his late sister, Princess Diana. \u00a0Good Morning Britain<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile 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 colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss,\u201d the statement read. <\/p>\n

The earl has now responded, referring to the statement as a \u201crather poor imitation of the \u2018recollections may vary\u2019 quote\u201d, seemingly referring to the late Queen\u2019s response to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex\u2019s Oprah Winfrey interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not every day you wake up to find you\u2019ve been gaslit by the King,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was astonishingly provocative and below the belt because it was essentially trying to say I\u2019d lied without the King being able to deny what I\u2019d said.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an extract of a BBC interview, the earl assured that he is \u201ctelling the truth\u201d and referred to the King\u2019s alleged remark about his sister as \u201cmonstrous\u201d. <\/p>\n

When asked if he had any evidence of the comment, the earl said that he told his friends and family about it straight away, but could not provide any hard evidence.<\/p>\n

In the memoir, detailing the life of Diana, the earl claimed that the comment came during an argument following her death regarding whether Prince William and Prince Harry should follow the coffin. <\/p>\n

He claimed that there was a \u201clack of obvious care\u201d for Harry, who was 12 at the time, following his mother\u2019s death. <\/p>\n

\"Earl<\/p>\n

He has doubled down on his bombshell claims against the King.\u00a0BBC News<\/p>\n

\u201cMy chief memory of that train journey is of being concerned at the lack of obvious care for Harry, as he decompressed from the ghastliness of the morning,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe needed Diana\u2019s hugs, of course, and they would forever be denied him.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut instead of calm and nurture, he was allowed to spin out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earl Spencer has claimed that King Charles is \u201cgaslighting\u201d him amid a feud sparked by \u201cexplosive\u201d claims in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-898701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}