The broadcaster has instructed lawyers to demand that the work be withdrawn from sale immediately, while calling on Diana\u2019s brother to pulp all remaining copies.<\/p>\n
Charles Spencer<\/a> made a series of claims in Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, which was published on Tuesday, including that the King said “we\u2019ll forget her soon enough” after she died and sounded “giddily elated” following the fatal car crash.<\/p>\n The earl also suggested Mr Morgan was responsible for publishing photographs, taken with hidden cameras, of Diana in a leotard working out at the gym, in the Daily Mirror newspaper in 1993.<\/p>\n But Mr Morgan was working at The Sun at the time, and did not join the Mirror as its editor until 1995.<\/p>\n The earl apologised and said, as a historian, \u201caccuracy was important to him\u201d, but he stood by his account that Mr Morgan was \u201csurly and annoyed\u201d when he called the journalist to tell him he was not welcome at Diana\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n But Mr Morgan doubled down on his threat of a lawsuit, and told BBC Radio 4<\/a>\u2019s PM programme he had asked his lawyers to send a legal letter to both the earl and the book\u2019s publishers.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mere fact he has so speedily issued an apology should say it all\u2026\u201d Mr Morgan told PM.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re a self proclaimed historian \u2013 remove it immediately. And if that means you have to pulp your book, well that\u2019s on you.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Morgan also wrote on social media: \u201cEarl Spencer has apologised to me for his defamatory lies published in his new book, Swan Song, published today.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I am pursuing legal action against him and his publisher Penguin<\/a> to have the lies removed, and damages paid to the King\u2019s Trust.\u201d<\/p>\n He also insisted he was \u201cneither surly nor annoyed\u201d but had been \u201cvery respectful\u201d to the earl during their telephone conversation.<\/p>\n Mr Morgan wrote: \u201cEarl Spencer\u2019s account of our phone call is also deeply misleading.<\/p>\n Piers Morgan has said he will sue Earl Spencer over \u201cfabricated inaccuracies\u201d and \u201cexamples of brazen falsity\u201d in his book about his late sister Diana, Princess of Wales, as the publication hits shelves.<\/p>\n \u201cI was neither surly nor annoyed, but instead, very respectful to him and his family, as I wrote in my diaries, The Insider. It would seem that Spencer\u2019s recollection of phone calls is very suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n The statement on behalf of Charles Spencer read: \u201cEarl Spencer\u2019s account of his conversation with Piers Morgan is accurate.<\/p>\n \u201cMr Morgan was surly and annoyed when Earl Spencer called personally to tell him that he was not welcome at his sister\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n \u201cThe book then records Earl 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<\/a> on November 7 1993. Mr Morgan has pointed out that he did not join the Daily Mirror until October 1995.<\/p>\n \u201cAs an historian, accuracy is important to Earl Spencer. He therefore wishes to clarify that his assumption was incorrect. Earl Spencer apologises to Mr Morgan for this error.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Morgan had earlier criticised the earl for \u201cfabricated inaccuracies\u201d and \u201cexamples of brazen falsity\u201d.<\/p>\n Speaking on his YouTube<\/a> show Piers Morgan Uncensored<\/a>, 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 November 7 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 Morgan was the editor of the Mirror from 1995 to 2004.<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cEarl Spencer 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<\/a> with Prince William<\/a>. 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 Earl 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![\"Copies](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4f8e44cf201ecf30f8941455afd379d8Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzkwMTU1Mzgy-2.85934553.jpg\")
Copies of Earl Spencer\u2019s book Swan Song: Diana, My Sister at Waterstones Piccadilly in London (Aaron Chown\/PA)<\/p>\n![\"Mr](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/c1adca65293e6a5a75f041cc34ae9d10Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzkwMTc2NzI3-2.1144756.jpg\")
Mr Morgan with the then-Prince of Wales at a Buckingham Palace reception for Charles\u2019 50th birthday in 1998 (John Stillwell\/PA)<\/p>\n![\"Diana](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/437843aa0dc67411455d837544263b3aY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzkwMTczNjcw-2.1055462.jpg\")
Diana died in a car crash nearly 30 years ago (Stefan Rousseau\/PA)<\/p>\n