King Charles III allegedly had a blistering discussion with late ex-wife Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, days after her death in a fatal car crash.
Spencer, 62, claimed in his upcoming memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, that he got into an argument with Charles, 77, over funeral arrangements for Diana, according to an excerpt published by the Daily Mail on Wednesday, September 16.
“Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough,” Spencer alleged the now-king told him, claiming Charles posited that Diana wouldn’t have wanted their children to endure a public funeral.
Charles and Diana, who were married from 1981 to 1996, shared sons Prince William, now 44, and Prince Harry, now 42. The People’s Princess died in a Paris car crash in August 1997 when her sons were 15 and 12, respectively. She was 36.
Spencer reportedly speculated in the book passage that Charles “unleashed” his comments because he had “pent-up contempt for Diana” and was horrified “the world was so bowled over by her death.”
Charles has not publicly addressed the accusations. Us reached out for comment.
Despite the alleged drama, Diana was laid to rest in a state funeral where William and Harry walked in a procession behind her casket alongside Charles, Spencer and Prince Philip.
“It wasn’t an easy decision, and it was a collective family decision to do that,” William recalled in the 2017 BBC documentary Diana: Seven Days. “It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. We were overwhelmed by how many people turned out, it was just incredible. There was that balance between duty and family, and that’s what we had to do.”
He continued at the time, “Both our parents brought us up to understand that there is this element of duty and responsibility that you have to do things you don’t want to do. When it becomes that personal, walking behind your mother’s funeral cortege, it goes to another level of duty. I just kept thinking about what she would want and that she’d be proud of Harry and I, and effectively she was there with us. It felt like she was walking alongside us to get us through it.”
As for Harry, he noted in the documentary that he didn’t “have an opinion on whether that was right or wrong.”
“I am glad I was part of it,” he insisted. “Looking back on it now, I am very glad I was part of it.”
William and Harry, who have been estranged since 2020 over the Duke of Sussex’s decision to step down from his duties as a senior working royal, frequently continue to honor their late mother’s legacy.
Swan Song: Diana, My Sister will be released Tuesday, September 22.
