BREAKING NEWS: Buckingham Palace has taken the unprecedented step of directly responding to explosive claims made in a new memoir by Princess Diana’s brother. Princess Diana’s brother is preparing to release a new memoir exploring her marriage and tragic de@th
Buckingham Palace fires back at Earl Spencer’s SHOCK Diana claim as King Charles faces explosive new bombshell
Buckingham Palace has hit back in extraordinary fashion after Earl Spencer made a devastating claim about King Charles in his explosive new memoir about Princess Diana.
The Palace has issued a highly unusual and sharply worded response after Diana’s younger brother alleged that Charles told him “we’ll forget her soon enough” just days after the Princess’s tragic de@th.
The sensational claim appears in Earl Spencer’s forthcoming memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, which promises to reveal deeply personal details about his relationship with Diana, her marriage to Charles and the aftermath of her de@th.
But the Palace has now responded – and its carefully chosen words have immediately raised the temperature around the explosive allegations.
Palace delivers BRUTAL response
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said:
“While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His 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.”
The statement stops short of directly accepting or denying Spencer’s version of events.
Yet its reference to grief potentially affecting memory, judgment and reason represents a striking response to a claim involving one of the most traumatic moments in the modern Royal Family’s history.
Spencer, the younger brother of Diana, is understood to have written an intensely personal account of the days surrounding his sister’s de@th and funeral.
According to reports about the memoir, he describes an alleged confrontation with Charles over funeral arrangements.
It was during that reported exchange that Charles allegedly made the extraordinary remark: “Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough.”
If accurately recalled, the alleged comment would be an extraordinarily painful statement given the national grief that followed Diana’s de@th.
But the Palace’s response makes clear that it does not accept the premise without qualification.
Diana’s de@th left Britain HEARTBROKEN
Diana died in a car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris on August 31, 1997.
Her de@th sent shockwaves around the world.
Millions mourned the Princess, while Britain was plunged into an extraordinary period of national grief.
Just six days later, her funeral was held at Westminster Abbey.
An estimated 32.1 million people watched the funeral on British television, while huge crowds gathered along the procession route to pay their respects.
Among those walking behind Diana’s coffin were her two young sons.
William was just 15.
Harry was only 12.
They walked alongside their father, then Prince Charles, their grandfather Prince Philip and Earl Spencer in one of the most haunting images ever associated with the Royal Family.
For Spencer, the funeral became a defining moment.
He delivered an emotional eulogy for his sister that was met with applause from mourners both inside and outside Westminster Abbey.
Earl Spencer vows to tell the ‘truth’
Now, almost three decades later, Spencer says he is prepared to revisit the memories he has carried since Diana’s de@th.
His new memoir promises what he describes as an “extraordinarily moving” account of his relationship with his sister.
Spencer has previously indicated that he wants to tell Diana’s story from his own perspective, including details he believes have never been publicly revealed.
His account of the funeral is therefore likely to attract intense scrutiny, particularly because of the alleged confrontation with Charles.
The memoir could reopen painful questions about what happened behind Palace walls during the chaotic days following Diana’s de@th.
A fresh royal storm erupts
The timing could hardly be more explosive.
Charles is now King, while William is the heir to the throne and Harry remains one of Diana’s sons.
Any new revelations about their mother inevitably carry enormous emotional weight.
The alleged remark attributed to Charles is particularly shocking because it appears to contrast so dramatically with the public mourning that engulfed Britain.
Yet the Palace’s response has introduced another side to the story.
Rather than entering into a public dispute over the contents of the memoir, officials have pointed towards the devastating effects of grief and the possibility that memories of traumatic events can change over time.
That leaves a major question hanging over Spencer’s account.
Did King Charles really utter the devastating words attributed to him – or has nearly 30 years of grief, anger and memory transformed one of the darkest moments in the Royal Family’s history?
Earl Spencer’s Swan Song is now poised to reopen one of the most painful chapters of Diana’s life – and Buckingham Palace has made clear that it will not simply allow the most explosive claims to pass without a pointed response.
