BREAKING NEWS: Earl Spencer erupts with explosive 6-word claim about Prince William and Harry
Earl Spencer’s exclusive BBC interview aired on Sunday.
Harry and William were reportedly aware of the claims (Image: GETTY)
Earl Spencer spoke about Prince William and Prince Harry during his exclusive interview with the BBC, which aired on Sunday. The 62-year-old is gearing up for the release of his explosive new book, Swan Song, on Tuesday, a memoir dedicated to his late sister, Diana, Princess of Wales.
The book details explosive claims about his former brother-in-law, the now-King Charles, including one claim that, just days after Diana’s death, the monarch told him that the world will “forget her soon enough”. Speaking, although not in detail, about his nephews, the Earl said that “these words will not be a surprise to them”.
In the interview, the Earl hinted that he had recently been in contact with both William and Harry, who are still involved in a bitter feud and warned his bombshell claim would “not be a surprise to them”.
Earl Spencer was interviewed by BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg (Image: GETTY)
He told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, “I don’t like to talk about what I’ve been speaking about to William and Harry, but this will not be a surprise to them.
“I will tell you that these words will not be a surprise to them.”
Earl Spencer has claimed he had an explosive row with Charles after suggesting that he was uncomfortable with Harry and William, who were then aged just 15 and 12, walking behind their mother’s coffin in the funeral procession.
Charles then made the alleged comment, as well as attacking him for the Spencer family’s sense of duty.
The family pictured on the day of Diana’s funeral in 1997 (Image: GETTY)
The Earl also revealed that the King’s comment was reflected in his chosen choice of words at the end of his eulogy.
As well as his notorious remarks that Diana’s ‘blood family’ would ensure her sons were protected, his eulogy also included the line: “Above all, we give thanks for the life of a woman I’m so proud to be able to call my sister: the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana, whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds.”
He told Laura, “If you get to the final bit of my eulogy, it is that her fantastic qualities ‘will never be extinguished from our minds’. It was a direct rebuttal of ‘we’ll forget her soon enough’.”
