Ken Wharfe defended Earl Spencer on The Royals Uncensored (Image: Getty)
Ken Wharfe, a former personal protection officer to Princess Diana, has come to Earl Spencer‘s defence. Appearing on The Royals Uncensored, the security expert weighed in on the debate surrounding Spencer’s bombshell book, Swan Song. Asked if the memoir had any merit, Wharfe told Jo Elvin: “I think Spencer has a point to make here, and he himself has admitted that the reason for this book was an extension, a continuation of his eulogy at Diana’s funeral.”
“I cannot be critical of him. I would say that he got things very badly wrong in terms of the Piers Morgan case; that was his fault,” Wharfe pointed out, referring to Morgan’s legal threats after being falsely named as Editor of The Daily Mirror in 1993, when intrusive photos of Diana at the gym were published. “The checker should really have sorted that out. But he’s admitted a mistake, and hopefully, through the courts, maybe this will resolve itself.”
Arguing that Spencer has “every right to write what he wants about his sister,” Wharfe, who worked for Diana for several years, shed some light on her relationship with the Earl.
Wharfe pictured with Diana in 1990 (Image: Getty)
“[The memoir] comes from a brother who cares for her. I’ve met Spencer many times. In the early times, when Diana invited him on holiday in the late ’80s, I got to know him very well,” Wharfe noted.
“Diana was very close to Spencer. Towards the end of her life, maybe they did have a fallout, I mean, she did that quite a lot of the time with her mother as well…
“You know, Diana was looking for a place to stay at Althorp. I went with Diana and Spencer to Althorp, and we looked at a house, albeit on the periphery of the estate, and a designer was with us. And Spencer was very happy for this to happen.
“In the end, of course, the local police wanted to put another six feet on the perimeter wall at a tremendous cost. And Diana was very sympathetic and said, ‘Look, I’m not going to put my brother to that expense’. And the house, never was,” Wharfe explained.
Wharfe said Diana was ‘very close’ to her brother, though they may have fallen out (Image: Getty)
“But of course, the media had a complete and total frenzy on that, saying that Althorp was disgustingly not approving Diana’s request. So that in itself was something that displeased him, but it is a story.”
Wharfe has previously spoken in Spencer’s defence and recently appeared on Good Morning Britain. “He was passionate about his sister and really concerned about the dilemma she was in, in her life. She was married to someone at that time, [and] that was going very badly wrong,” the ex Metropolitan police officer said.
Disagreeing with the notion that Spencer had been “cashing in” on Diana’s death, Wharfe pointed out: “He’s not a poor man. I think he was so passionate about his sister, and clearly wants to put what he perceives to be a lot of wrongs in her life [right].”