Another set of allegations from the past comes back to haunt Charles.
Yesterday, Britain’s King Charles responded to criticism by the brother of late Princess Diana, his first wife, by having a spokesperson say that ‘grief could impact reason, judgment and memory’.
Buckingham Palace has hit back at claims made by Earl Spencer, the brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, in a new book, with a spokesperson saying “fraternal grief can cloud reason”.
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Reuters reported:
“The assertions, made in a soon-to-be published book, relate to the now-monarch’s conduct in the days after Diana’s death in 1997.”
Britain and the world were left in a state of shock when Diana died at the age of 36 in a horrible car crash in Paris.
“Her brother, Charles Spencer, alleges in a soon-to-be-published memoir that the then-Prince Charles told him ‘rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough’.”
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said that ‘fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss’.
After the release of an excerpt of “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister”—a memoir written by Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer—alleged King Charles III spoke negatively of the princess after her 1997 death, he issued a rare statement. https://t.co/sdHhNx8u6m pic.twitter.com/6glEuObigc
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The Telegraph reported:
“The comments echo Elizabeth II’s ‘recollections may vary’ response to a series of allegations made by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in their interview with Oprah Winfrey.
A source close to the King said that the alleged comment about Diana was ‘just not in his nature and it certainly wasn’t in his nature at that time, when he was a man absolutely grief-stricken’.”
‘It’s a curious one…’
Nigel Nelson reacts to the Palace hitting back at Earl Spencer’s claim that after Princess Diana’s death the then Prince Charles said ‘we’ll forget her soon enough’.
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“According to the Earl, the alleged row took place while they were debating whether Princes William and Harry, then 15 and 12, should walk behind their mother’s coffin during the funeral procession on Sept 6, 1997.
[…] The alleged row mirrors the Duke of Sussex’s memoir, Spare, in which he claimed that there was a heated behind-the-scenes debate about whether he and his brother should walk behind his mother’s coffin, with the Earl describing it as ‘a barbarity’.”
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