LONDON
\nBuckingham Palace has hit back at claims by the late Princess Diana\u2019s brother that King Charles III acted insensitively following her death in a car crash almost 30 years ago.
\nThe palace issued an unusually strong statement after Charles Spencer claimed in his new memoir that the then-prince, Diana\u2019s former husband, said \u201crest assured, we\u2019ll forget her soon enough\u201d days after she died in 1997.
\n\u201cWhile we do not comment on books as a matter of principle,\u201d a palace spokesperson said late Wednesday. \u201cHis 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.\u201d
\n\u201cSwan Song: Diana, My Sister\u201d is due to be published next week. In the book, serialised in the Daily Mail, Spencer claims that Charles subjected him to a \u201cstream of anger\u201d after he insisted Diana would not have wanted her sons, princes William and Harry, then aged 15 and 12, to walk in her funeral procession.
\n\u201cHe 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. \u2018Rest assured\u2019, he hissed, \u2018we\u2019ll forget her soon enough!\u2019,\u201d Spencer writes.
\nDiana, who was extremely popular in the UK, died in Paris at the age of 36 after the car she was travelling in crashed as it tried to get away from paparazzi photographers. Her death sparked an outpouring of grief in Britain and led to accusations that the monarchy failed to show the appropriate empathy.
\nUK media likened the language in the palace\u2019s statement to the late Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s response in 2021 to claims of racism in the royal family from Harry and his wife Meghan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONDON Buckingham Palace has hit back at claims by the late Princess Diana\u2019s brother that King Charles III acted insensitively following her death in a car crash almost 30 years ago. The palace issued an unusually strong statement after Charles Spencer claimed in his new memoir that the then-prince, Diana\u2019s former husband, said \u201crest assured, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n