LONDON, Sept 20 \u2014 Fresh claims made by Charles Spencer, the younger brother of the late princess Diana, have been published as he doubled down on his allegation that King Charles III said \u201cwe\u2019ll forget her soon enough\u201d after Diana died, reported PA Media\/dpa.<\/p>\n
The earl has made a series of damning claims about the king in a new memoir chronicling the life of his sister Diana that prompted an \u201cunprecedented\u201d response from Buckingham Palace who said \u201cthe pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an extract of a BBC interview released on Friday, the earl insisted he is \u201ctelling the truth\u201d and described the king\u2019s comments about his sister as \u201cmonstrous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking about an alleged row over Diana\u2019s funeral arrangements involving her sons, the earl said: \u201c(The king) went ballistic, would be the right term, and started really going for my family as a whole, about their sense of duty, not being adequate enough, and ranted for a while, I have no idea how long, but it was a significant period, and I just listened.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then he stopped, and I thought, \u2018Oh now he\u2019s going to pull himself together and say something more appropriate.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then he said, \u2018We\u2019ll forget her soon enough\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked whether he has \u201cevidence\u201d of the king\u2019s comments, the earl told the BBC: \u201cI told friends and family straight away, close friends and family, about what had been said, because it was so monstrous.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI\u2019m telling the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charles is said to have made the comments about his ex-wife in a row with the earl over whether the then Prince William and Prince Harry should follow Diana\u2019s funeral cortege.<\/p>\n
In the latest extract of the earl\u2019s book serialized in the Daily Mail, Earl Spencer told of his memories of the funeral, and his concern for Harry, after he observed a \u201clack of obvious care\u201d for the then 12-year-old prince.<\/p>\n
Spencer walked behind Diana\u2019s coffin during the funeral procession on September 6, 1997, alongside Harry, William, then 15, Charles, and the late duke of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
Recounting the train journey from London to Althorp after the funeral, Spencer said: \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.<\/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
Spencer said he could not get over how \u201ctiny, and slight, and bereft\u201d his nephew looked, adding he remembers thinking Harry was \u201ctoo small to be doing this\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a previously published excerpt, Spencer claimed the then-prince Charles \u201cwent nuts\u201d in a row over Diana\u2019s funeral arrangements, after he told him she \u201cnever would have wanted\u201d her sons to walk behind her coffin.<\/p>\n
The earl claimed Charles told him: \u201cThat\u2019s the problem with your family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve got no bloody sense of duty.\u201d<\/p>\n
The earl further claimed that on that same train journey, he was told the late queen Elizabeth II had offered to restore Diana\u2019s Her Royal Highness title.<\/p>\n
Spencer said Elizabeth\u2019s private secretary, Robert Fellowes, relayed the offer after the late queen phoned him.<\/p>\n
The earl recounted telling Fellowes that while Elizabeth\u2019s offer was \u201cvery kind\u201d, he failed to see the point in restoring her title, adding: \u201cI mean – Diana\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spencer further claimed Elizabeth reacted \u201ctetchily\u201d to news of his sister having been in a car accident.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWhen the queen had heard the first news of Diana\u2019s being in a traffic accident, she had asked tetchily, \u2018What is she up to now?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThis, before the seriousness of it all became clear.\u201d \u2014 Bernama-PA media\/dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Sept 20 \u2014 Fresh claims made by Charles Spencer, the younger brother of the late princess Diana,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52313,49,48,147989,75,312179,53298,1068,277405],"class_list":["post-902515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-earl-spencer","tag-entertainment","tag-funeral-arrangements","tag-king-charles","tag-princess-diana","tag-queen-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}