September 22, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\nThe statement on behalf of Charles Spencer read that his \u201caccount of his conversation with Piers Morgan is accurate\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Morgan was surly and annoyed when Spencer called personally to tell him that he was not welcome at his sister\u2019s funeral,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe book then records Spencer\u2019s assumption that Mr Morgan\u2019s response was because he was editor of the Daily Mirror when the Mirror Group had published highly intrusive photographs of Princess Diana at the gym.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe photographs were published by the Sunday Mirror on 7 November 1993. Mr Morgan has pointed out that he did not join the Daily Mirror until October 1995.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a historian, accuracy is important to Spencer. He therefore wishes to clarify that his assumption was incorrect. Spencer apologises to Mr Morgan for this error.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Morgan had earlier criticised the earl for \u201cfabricated inaccuracies\u201d and \u201cexamples of brazen falsity\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking on his YouTube show Piers Morgan Uncensored, he added: \u201cIt\u2019s all bullshit and very, very easy bullshit for me to prove it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe photographs which he says that I published were printed by the Sunday Mirror on 7 November 1993. I joined the Daily Mirror in October in 1995.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, at the time of the gym pictures, I was doing a showbiz column on the Mirror\u2019s arch-rival, The Sun. About as far removed from responsibility for the Mirror scoop as I could possibly have been.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n The then-Mirror editor Piers Morgan with the then-Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace reception for Charles\u2019 50th birthday in 1998 PA<\/p>\n
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Morgan was the editor of the Mirror from 1995 to 2004.<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cSpencer was estranged from Diana and living in South Africa at the time of her death.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs editor of the Daily Mirror, I had lunch with her at Kensington Palace with Prince William. After that, it wasn\u2019t uncommon for her to call my office or for me to run stories by her\u2026 Ironically, by that time in her life, I think I was probably talking to her more often than he was.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy question though is this, if Spencer can be so incredibly, defamatorially wrong about such basic facts involving me, well, why should we believe anything else he puts in this book?\u201d<\/p>\n
The pictures of Diana working out were taken by Bryce Taylor, the then-owner of LA Fitness in Isleworth, west London, who used a high-tech camera hidden in a panel above the princess\u2019s head to capture her astride an exercise machine wearing a leotard and cycling shorts.<\/p>\n
She launched legal action against Taylor and Mirror Group Newspapers and they later settled out of court in 1995, with the princess\u2019 legal costs met and a donation secured to charity.<\/p>\n
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