{"id":602804,"date":"2026-09-17T02:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602804\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T02:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:56:14","slug":"well-forget-her-soon-enough-charles-allegedly-said-after-dianas-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602804\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ll forget her soon enough\u2019: Charles allegedly said after Diana\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

However, when the Earl pointed out to Charles that he had been 30 at the time of Mountbatten\u2019s death, he said the now King \u201cwent nuts\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Earl writes in Swan Song: \u201cPrince Charles continued his stream of anger, without me interrupting. Then he stopped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI assumed the pause signalled an effort to bring himself under control, but then he unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Rest assured,\u2019 he hissed, \u2018we\u2019ll forget her soon enough!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Earl was \u201cso stunned\u201d by Charles\u2019 alleged remarks, he wrote, that he took a few seconds before replying: \u201cI can\u2019t believe you just said that\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Earl ended up walking in the funeral procession alongside William and Harry, as well as Prince Charles and Prince Philip, behind Diana\u2019s coffin as it was carried through London.<\/p>\n

At the funeral itself in Westminster Abbey, the Earl delivered a defiant speech that has frequently been named one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

The shocking claims from the Earl are sure to continue as Swan Song is serialised by the Daily Mail newspaper ahead of its UK publication next Tuesday, September 22.<\/p>\n

Charles has yet to respond to the Earl\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, when the Earl pointed out to Charles that he had been 30 at the time of Mountbatten\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254694,74,7818,9861,23552,4731,634,107137,128519,23966,156,49530,1364,5511,9860,111,139,69,28821,3048,27886,2249,21038,11787,6436],"class_list":["post-602804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-254694","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-charles","tag-claimed","tag-days","tag-death","tag-dianas","tag-earl","tag-enough","tag-entertainment","tag-forget","tag-her","tag-just","tag-king","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-princess","tag-said","tag-sister","tag-soon","tag-spencer","tag-tragic","tag-well"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}