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This news reports on an escalating public dispute between Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer (Earl Spencer), and Buckingham Palace regarding claims made in his memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister.

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The Core Dispute

In serialized extracts from his memoir, Earl Spencer alleged that days after Princess Diana’s death in 1997, he had a heated phone argument with the then Prince of Wales over funeral arrangementsspecifically over whether Prince William and Prince Harry should walk behind their mother’s coffin. According to Spencer, Charles angrily dismissed the Spencer family’s sense of duty and allegedly said: “Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough”.

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The Palace Response

Buckingham Palace issued a rare statement in response, remarking that while they generally do not comment on books as a matter of principle, the King 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”.

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The “Gaslighting” Accusation

Reacting to the Palace’s response, Earl Spencer accused King Charles of gaslighting him. Speaking to the media, Spencer stated:

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• “It is not every day you wake up to find you’ve been gaslit by the King”.

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• He characterized the Palace statement as “astonishingly provocative and below the belt,” arguing that it effectively accused him of lying or fabricating history without the Palace directly denying the substance of his claim.

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• He likened the reaction to a weaker imitation of Queen Elizabeth II’s famous phrase “recollections may vary” and stood firmly by his account, insisting that he had shared the details of that call with close friends and family immediately after it occurred because he found the remark so monstrous.

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