{"id":778552,"date":"2026-09-22T05:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778552\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T05:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:10:21","slug":"earl-spencer-says-then-prince-charles-told-him-he-was-lucky-to-inherit-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778552\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Spencer Says Then Prince Charles Told Him He Was Lucky to Inherit Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s been a tough week for the royal family as Earl Spencer\u2019s book and its damaging claims about the King dominate the headlines. And in interviews to promote Swan Song: Diana, my sister<\/a>. Spencer has not held back, saying in one that then Prince Charles told him he was lucky to inherit young.<\/p>\n

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Describing a \u201cpeculiar\u201d conversation, the Earl said he had with Prince Charles a few days before his father died, Spencer said, \u201cPrince Charles as he was then sort of said to me \u2018You\u2019re so lucky\u2019 and I said \u2018I\u2019m so sorry sir?\u2019 and he said \u2018You\u2019re so lucky to have inherited so young\u2019,\u201d he told CBS News<\/a>. The Earl continued, \u201cAnd I thought that\u2019s such a peculiar way of looking at somebody\u2019s family loss really and I suppose it betrayed his frustration at not being King, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

A PR war has broken out between Earl Spencer and Buckingham Palace since the contents of the book were released. The Palace took the rare step of commenting on it to push back<\/a> against the claim by the Earl<\/a> that Prince Charles had said \u201cWe\u2019ll forget her soon enough\u201d on the phone to him in the days following Diana\u2019s death.<\/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 a Palace spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

However, in a slew of subsequent interviews the Earl has doubled down. \u201cIt’s not every day you’re gaslit by a king, but I was really upset with that because I thought it was very, not only condescending, but not straight,\u201d he told ABC News<\/a>. He also told the BBC<\/a> that he could have gone further, saying \u201cThis is not a threat, it\u2019s a fact, I know lots of things about the King which I chose not to include in the book because they were not relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Town & Country Contributing Editor Victoria Murphy has reported on the British Royal Family since 2010. She has interviewed Prince Harry and has travelled the world covering several royal tours. She is a frequent contributor to Good Morning America. Victoria authored Town & Country book The Queen: A Life in Pictures<\/a>, released in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read It\u2019s been a tough week for the royal family as Earl Spencer\u2019s book and its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,178878,379,256711,381,96,2788,190731,380,159164,256710,223205,178877,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-collection-royal-family-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-115844e4-d165-489a-8da3-47276e4de10e","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-earl-spencers-latest-bombshell-from-upcoming-book","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-heritage","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}