The drama surrounding Earl Spencer’s new book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, is far from over. After Buckingham Palace released an unprecedented statement regarding allegations made in the book, Princess Diana’s brother has responded with his own comments. Clearly, King Charles and Charles Spencer have very different recollections of their shared history.
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, Earl Spencer said, “It is not every day you wake up to find you’ve been gaslit by The King.”
The author continued, “It was astonishingly provocative and below the belt because it was essentially trying to say I’d lied without The King being able to deny what I’d said.”
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Referencing a previous disagreement between the palace and Prince Harry, Spencer noted, “I also thought it was a rather poor imitation of the ‘recollections may vary’ quote, which was a much more elegant way of putting things, but in these circumstances entirely out of place.”
“It was astonishingly provocative and below the belt…”
(Image credit: Earl Spencer/Instagram)
Earl Spencer further told the publication, “I am a historian—I appreciate that a lot of the public don’t know that—and my primary responsibility as a historian is to tell the truth.”
As for why he decided to pen the new tome, the earl shared, “My motivation in this book has been to tell the truth about Diana and all she had to put up with in her public life through the eyes of the brother who grew up with her.”
He also noted, “Along the way I’ve been able to deal with various myths that have grown up which needed to be dealt with once and for all.”
Charles Spencer and Princess Diana when they were children.
(Image credit: Getty Images)
Basically, the beef between Earl Spencer and King Charles appears to be far from over.
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