{"id":2158333,"date":"2026-09-22T11:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2158333"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:15:03","slug":"new-book-by-princess-dianas-brother-prompts-war-of-words-with-king-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2158333","title":{"rendered":"New book by Princess Diana&#8217;s brother prompts war of words with King Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/92\/31\/20\/1200x675_cmsv2_255888c1-d452-5301-9732-b48a80e46aec-9923120.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2927863-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2927863\" data-cid=\"9924049\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2927863-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img 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                       Culture news<\/p><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<h1 class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            New book by Princess Diana&#8217;s brother prompts war of words with King Charles<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-video u-position-relative \">\n<div class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative \" data-controller=\"video-player\" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img c-article-media__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/92\/31\/20\/1536x864_cmsv2_255888c1-d452-5301-9732-b48a80e46aec-9923120.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Copies of a new book by Earl Spencer on display in a bookshop in central London, 22 September, 2026\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-caption u-position-absolute\"><i id=\"article-caption-content\" class=\"c-article-caption__content\"><span class=\"c-article-caption__text\"><br \/>\n              Copies of a new book by Earl Spencer on display in a bookshop in central London, 22 September, 2026<br \/>\n                    <span class=\"u-color-white\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__copyright\">Copyright\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__credit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-copyright c-article-image-copyright--novideo\">\n      Copyright\u00a0AP Photo\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__body u-article-content\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__contributors-publication-date\">\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbspGavin Blackburn\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1790075703\">\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time datetime=\"2026-09-22 13:15:03 +02:00\">22\/09\/2026 &#8211; 13:15 GMT+2<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-share-comment u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span 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decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In \u201cSwan Song: Diana, My Sister,\u201d Charles Spencer alleges that he argued with the then-Prince Charles over palace plans for Prince William and Prince Harry, then 15 and 12, to walk behind their mother&#8217;s coffin during her 1997 funeral procession.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer says he told Charles that Diana, who was killed in a car crash in Paris at the age of 36, would not have wanted her boys to undergo the ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>He claims the prince \u201cwent ballistic\u201d during the argument, and told him: &#8220;Rest assured, we\u2019ll forget her soon enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spencer also accuses Charles of having \u201ccontempt\u201d for his ex-wife and of sounding \u201celated\u201d after her death.<\/p>\n<p>After excerpts of the book were published last week, Buckingham Palace responded with a strongly-worded statement that&#8217;s rare by the measured standards of the royal household.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/92\/31\/20\/808x539_cmsv2_01e1857a-411b-5a3b-8001-8708d72fa5b9-9923120.jpg\" alt=\"Britain&apos;s Prince Harry speaks with his uncle Earl Spencer at Kensington Palace, 1 July, 2021\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Britain&#8217;s Prince Harry speaks with his uncle Earl Spencer at Kensington Palace, 1 July, 2021<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHis 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 it said.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer has stood by his claims, insisting to the BBC that he is telling the truth. On the royal rebuttal, he asked: \u201cIs he furious? Is he furious or is he embarrassed?\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>War of words<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Charles, then 32, married 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer in a lavish ceremony at St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral in 1981. The couple divorced in 1996, and a decade later Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, now Queen Camilla.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer, has long clashed with the royals over their treatment of his older sister.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between the palace and the Spencer family following her death were dramatised in the film \u201cThe Queen\u201d and the Netflix series &#8220;The Crown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a searing eulogy at his sister\u2019s funeral, Spencer vowed that her \u201cblood family\u201d would carry on her \u201cimaginative and loving\u201d legacy in raising her two sons. The speech was widely considered a swipe at the royal family.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, many in Britain and beyond felt Queen Elizabeth II and the royals were too slow to acknowledge the global outpouring of grief over Diana&#8217;s death and that the monarchy was deeply out of touch with the public mood.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.769\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/92\/31\/20\/808x622_cmsv2_213f87f5-fcf2-5f13-b843-991e4753d476-9923120.jpg\" alt=\"Britain&apos;s Prince Charles kisses his bride, the former Diana Spencer, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London, 29 July, 1981 \"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Britain&#8217;s Prince Charles kisses his bride, the former Diana Spencer, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London, 29 July, 1981 <\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>Press treatment of Prince Harry<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The royals have spent decades putting that period of crisis behind them. The warmer, more personable approach of William and Harry, and in recent years the king, is a legacy of that time.<\/p>\n<p>In his book, Spencer also criticised the royals for what he described as a \u201clack of obvious care\u201d for the then 12-year-old Harry.<\/p>\n<p>He recounted how \u201ctiny, and slight and bereft\u201d his nephew looked after the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe needed Diana\u2019s hugs, of course, and they would forever be denied him,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut instead of calm and nurture, he was allowed to spin out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/92\/31\/20\/808x539_cmsv2_e3654daf-c754-5d77-acd6-7c2bec902f0e-9923120.jpg\" alt=\"King Charles and Queen Camilla in Ottawa, 27 May, 2025\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">King Charles and Queen Camilla in Ottawa, 27 May, 2025<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some critics have questioned why Spencer felt the need to revisit the pain and trauma 30 years on.<\/p>\n<p>The aristocrat said he wanted to write down his own thoughts and memories about Diana, \u201conce and for all, rather than having the discomfort of again reading the opinions of others, many of which are based on untruths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the relationship between the press and Harry and his wife, Meghan, mirrors the way the media treated his sister, Spencer told the BBC: \u201c(Diana) was really brought low by all that criticism. 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id=\"abe-2927687-pos5-mostViewed\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-3 m-modeDesktop-3 m-modeXL-3 the-media-object--has-related the-media-object--no-label\" data-nid=\"2927687\" data-cid=\"9923077\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n<h3 class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    Archaeology at Troy: 2,800-year-old agora found, city was not abandoned after war<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"articleBody\" data-key=\"articleBody\">A new book published on Tuesday by the brother of the late Princess Diana has made headlines around the world with its damning allegations about her ex-husband, now King Charles III, and reopened decades-old wounds within Britain&#8217;s royal family.In \u201cSwan Song: Diana, My Sister,\u201d Charles Spencer alleges that he argued with the then-Prince Charles over palace plans for Prince William and Prince Harry, then 15 and 12, to walk behind their mother&#8217;s coffin during her 1997 funeral procession.Spencer says he told Charles that Diana, who was killed in a car crash in Paris at the age of 36, would not have wanted her boys to undergo the ordeal.He claims the prince \u201cwent ballistic\u201d during the argument, and told him: &#8220;Rest assured, we\u2019ll forget her soon enough.&#8221;Spencer also accuses Charles of having \u201ccontempt\u201d for his ex-wife and of sounding \u201celated\u201d after her death.After excerpts of the book were published last week, Buckingham Palace responded with a strongly-worded statement that&#8217;s rare by the measured standards of the royal household.\u201cHis 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 it said.Spencer has stood by his claims, insisting to the BBC that he is telling the truth. On the royal rebuttal, he asked: \u201cIs he furious? Is he furious or is he embarrassed?\u201dWar of wordsCharles, then 32, married 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer in a lavish ceremony at St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral in 1981. The couple divorced in 1996, and a decade later Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, now Queen Camilla.Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer, has long clashed with the royals over their treatment of his older sister.Tensions between the palace and the Spencer family following her death were dramatised in the film \u201cThe Queen\u201d and the Netflix series &#8220;The Crown.&#8221;In a searing eulogy at his sister\u2019s funeral, Spencer vowed that her \u201cblood family\u201d would carry on her \u201cimaginative and loving\u201d legacy in raising her two sons. The speech was widely considered a swipe at the royal family.At the time, many in Britain and beyond felt Queen Elizabeth II and the royals were too slow to acknowledge the global outpouring of grief over Diana&#8217;s death and that the monarchy was deeply out of touch with the public mood.Press treatment of Prince HarryThe royals have spent decades putting that period of crisis behind them. The warmer, more personable approach of William and Harry, and in recent years the king, is a legacy of that time.In his book, Spencer also criticised the royals for what he described as a \u201clack of obvious care\u201d for the then 12-year-old Harry.He recounted how \u201ctiny, and slight and bereft\u201d his nephew looked after the funeral.\u201cHe needed Diana\u2019s hugs, of course, and they would forever be denied him,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut instead of calm and nurture, he was allowed to spin out of control.\u201dSome critics have questioned why Spencer felt the need to revisit the pain and trauma 30 years on.The aristocrat said he wanted to write down his own thoughts and memories about Diana, \u201conce and for all, rather than having the discomfort of again reading the opinions of others, many of which are based on untruths.\u201dAsked if the relationship between the press and Harry and his wife, Meghan, mirrors the way the media treated his sister, Spencer told the BBC: \u201c(Diana) was really brought low by all that criticism. 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