Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Earl Spencer has claimed King Charles said “we’ll forget her soon enough” just days after his sister Princess Diana’s tragic death in 1997.
Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer, has made the shocking allegations in his memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, which he said he decided to write to correct “untruths” about his late sibling.
Recalling arranging Diana’s funeral after her passing, the Earl said that he had been opposed to the now King’s decision that his and Diana’s sons Prince William and Prince Harry, aged 15 and 12 at the time, would walk in the funeral procession.
The Earl claims he told Charles, then the Prince of Wales, that Diana wouldn’t have wanted her sons to go through something so traumatic, so publicly.
Charles then called the Earl, he claimed, and told him that he wanted his sons to participate in the procession, and cited his walking in the funeral procession of Lord Mountbatten 18 years earlier as an example of what he wanted his sons to follow.
However, when the Earl pointed out to Charles that he had been 30 at the time of Lord Mountbatten’s death, he said the now king “went nuts”.
The Earl writes in Swan Song: “Prince Charles continued his stream of anger, without me interrupting. Then he stopped.
“I assumed the pause signalled an effort to bring himself under control, but then he unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death.
“‘Rest assured,’ he hissed, ‘we’ll forget her soon enough!’”
The Earl was “so stunned” by Charles’ alleged remarks, he wrote, that he took a few seconds before replying: “I can’t believe you just said that”.
The Earl ended up walking in the funeral procession alongside William and Harry, as well as Prince Charles and Prince Philip, behind Diana’s coffin as it was carried through London.
At the funeral itself in Westminster Abbey, the Earl delivered a defiant speech that has frequently been named one of the greatest speeches of the 20th Century.
The shocking claims from the Earl are sure to continue as Swan Song is serialised by the Daily Mail newspaper ahead of its UK publication next Tuesday (22.09.26).
King Charles has yet to respond to the Earl’s allegations.
