BREAKING: Earl Spencer ATTACKS Royals' 'lack of care' for William and Harry at Diana's funeral

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Earl Spencer has revealed a disagreement between King Charles and Prince Philip over Princess Diana's funeral and his disagreement with the treatment of Harry and William during the period.
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AI GeneratedEarl Spencer has raised controversial allegations against King Charles regarding the aftermath of Princess Diana's death, claiming the King expressed indifference toward her memory and sought central prominence during her funeral. The discussion weighs these claims against royal denials, analyzing the motivations behind the revelations and their impact on the monarchy's public image.
The story that obviously keeps giving, it's just not going away, is it?
Princess Diana's brother claims King Charles went ballistic
during a heated call days after her death.
Speaking to the BBC's Laura Kunzberg about his new book,
well he might have mentioned it a couple of times,
Earl Spencer alleges that the then Prince snapped
with forget her soon enough during a dispute over the funeral procession.
Buckingham Palace responded stating grief can cloud reason
And ranted for a while, I have no idea how long,
but it was a significant period.
And I just listened.
And then he stopped and I thought,
oh now, now he's going to pull himself together
and say something more appropriate.
And then he said, we'll forget her soon enough.
After a stunned silence, I said,
I cannot believe you just said that.
And I hung up on him.
Is he furious or is he embarrassed?
Because I can tell you here and now,
those are exactly the words he said.
I've only ever had two calls on the line with Prince Charles
at any stage of my life.
Who are we to believe?
Well, I'm telling the truth.
And the thing is, will we ever know?
Now loads of you are getting in touch straight away on this one.
I love it.
Gianna said the need for money can cloud judgment.
I think you might have a point there.
And Laucie said, Spencer, you make me feel physically sick
listening to your lies.
Well, Laucie, I mean, we don't know who's lying, do we?
One of them is being potentially economical with the truth,
I think is the best way to put it.
Let's see if GB News Royal Correspondent Cameron Walker
has any more updates for us.
Cameron, what's the latest?
Well, well, Dawn, we've got another extract from the book
that has just dropped in the last few minutes
and some breaking news.
It is Earl Spencer's recollections
of the day of Princess Diana's funeral.
Apparently, there was a bit of disagreement
inside Buckingham Palace
just before Charles, William, Harry, Earl Spencer
and indeed the late Duke of Edinburgh
marched behind the coffin.
Now, apparently, according to Earl Spencer,
Charles wanted to be in the middle of the chief mourners
with flanks by William and Harry,
with Prince Philip and Earl Spencer on either side of him,
front and centre, Earl Spencer says Charles wanted to be.
And he alleges that the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip,
overruled him and said,
no, it is Charles Spencer who should be in the middle
as the blood, as the relative,
and said that you need to be on the far side,
you divorce Princess Diana.
Now, of course, we weren't in the room,
so it's hard to co-operate that.
But that is what he alleged took place.
And apparently Charles, then, of course, Prince Charles,
was outranked by the Duke of Edinburgh,
who was the Queen's husband.
And therefore, the Duke of Edinburgh's word was final.
And that is what we saw play out on the streets of London
during that funeral cortege down to Westminster Abbey.
He also alleges that Charles said this bizarre comment
on the lake at Altrup, which is where Diana is buried.
Of course, the cortege, of course,
was taken from London to the Altrup estate.
And that is where she was buried.
And he said that everybody within on that lake,
on that island in the lake,
was a relative of Princess Diana,
a blood relative of Princess Diana,
apart from one figure, he said.
And that was Charles, Charles as in Prince Charles.
And he said, just ignore me, I'm a tree,
which was a little bit odd, to say the least.
So that is, that's kind of the allegations
that have just come out in the last couple of minutes.
Of course, Buckingham Palace have not responded
to those latest allegations.
I suspect they are going to.
I think, I suspect they're not going to even.
I think the only message we're going to get
from Buckingham Palace is what we got
just a couple of days ago, which was Earl Spencer,
of course, sorry, which was the fact
that Buckingham Palace said that Earl Spencer's judgments
had been clouded by fraternal grief.
So I just think this is going to go on and on, Dawn,
to be perfectly honest,
until this book is published on Tuesday.
The book is actually published on Tuesday.
So we've still got a good few days to go
of these stories coming out.
Golly gosh, it just carries on giving this story.
Cameron, thank you so much for that update.
I mean, what a story it really is.
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Okay, let's see what the panel
think of this one.
Now, just when I feel, Bill,
that I can't have any more of this story,
then another line drops
and it's like, wow.
I'm getting to the stage though
where I'm thinking,
there is nothing that Charles Spencer
won't say.
And it's like arguing there
about who was walking in what order.
And I just feel it's all getting
a bit petty and nasty.
Yeah, I think overall it's fairly sad.
And, you know, that last revelation,
30 years after the event,
it's down to interpretation.
Charles might have been wanting
to stand in the middle of his two sons
as they marched behind the coffin.
Overall, I think it is sad.
I mean, the context is that Charles Spencer,
you know, this was 30 years ago.
He was in the midst of trauma and grief
and he probably arguably
had a legitimate grievance
against the then Prince Charles
because of his conduct against his sister
whilst they were married.
But this is one person's word
against the other.
And I think the real question for me
that I posed to Charles Spencer
is why now 30 years after the event?
You know, if, you know,
you were really exercised about
what the now King had said
and done at that stage,
why didn't you air it at that stage?
And what's to be gained for him?
And what does it do for his relationship
with William and Harry?
I think those are real concerns.
And I'm not convinced
that in the fullness of time,
he might not regret having done that.
I wonder.
Well, I can tell you why he's doing it.
Four marriages, two ruinous divorces,
seven kids to support
and he's having to flog off bits of his land.
So I think he might be
a Hugh Bob, to be honest with you.
Well, I was just thinking,
I remember the day Diana,
Princess Diana passed away.
Like most people, I came down,
I was a kid, my mother was crying.
And I remember 30 years ago,
public enemy number one
really was the royal family.
You remember the mood at the time.
And now look at the King today.
And I think over the course of the 30 years,
I think King Charles has actually won
that public relations battle.
I think instinctively today, yesterday,
you can see people lining up on,
you know, Team King over,
you know, Team Spencer.
I also defer to the royal correspondents
and the people who are closest
to the royal family
because they sort of know,
you know, what's really going on.
And I've been struck
over the last couple of days,
listening to the prominent writers
and Robert Hardman, among others.
And they're saying, well, look,
we were at the funeral.
We didn't see this image
of Prince Charles at the time,
then Prince, obviously.
We didn't see this portrayal of Charles
that is now being presented to us.
We saw a broken man
who was clearly grieving.
And I just, it looks to me
as though, you know,
the King is winning
this public relations battle.
The thing is, it is now,
it's become a battle
and it's like there's no in between.
People are either,
it's almost like Brexit in a way.
You either think one way
or think the other.
And there's no in between.
I mean, some of the messages
that I've had today,
Borsang, I don't believe
Charles would have said that.
I don't think any man.
But that's what I mean.
Is it 52-48?
Or is it actually now 80-20
or even 90-10?
I don't think the country's split
down the middle on this one.
I've got to be honest,
I kind of feel a little bit
in the middle on this.
Because, you know, I've made clear,
you know, there were real questions
for Charles Spencer.
Why after 30 years
are you doing this?
But when you look at that interview
and him looking to the camera,
he clearly believes
what he's saying.
And I've listened to him in the past
and he is quite plausible.
And his argument is
there's going to be
all sorts of stories
on the 30th anniversary
of the death of his sister.
And he is going to be
so much commentary,
he would rather give
his version of events.
Now, I'm not sure I wholly accept that,
but there's a plausibility to it.
But beneath that, you know,
my ultimate concern is
what does this do
for his relationship
with his two nephews
who were, you know,
the love of Diana's life?
And, you know,
would she really want
this to be happening to them
on the 30th anniversary of her death?
Honestly, I don't think,
I mean, I'm old enough to,
luckily, to have interviewed Diana
and when the boys were little,
I've told this story before,
but when the boys were little
and it was children of courage,
so we were talking about children,
and I said, you know,
how are the boys doing,
et cetera, like you do.
And she goes,
I really love the way
William looks after his baby brother.
And I thought that,
I keep going back
to that conversation
a long time ago now,
obviously it was in the 80s.
I keep going back to that conversation
and thinking,
A, I don't think any of this
would have happened
if Diana would still have been with her.
I think the boys would still be friends.
And I just think this would be
absolutely breaking her heart.
I don't think, Matt,
that she would be at all happy
with what her brother's doing,
especially when you consider
that her and Charles Spencer
weren't talking
for the last year of her life.
I think more generally,
she'd be devastated
at what's happened to the family.
There are some things
that perhaps are a little unsurprising,
right?
It was widely known
that King Charles and Diana
were not really in love.
It wasn't, you know,
we all know the story.
We know now Queen Camilla
was the woman he was in love with.
We know, you know,
what's happened since.
But I think she'd be devastated
at the distance
between William and Harry
and she'd be devastated
at the breaking of that bond.
And, you know,
all parents out there can relate.
Ultimately, we're talking
about a family.
Yes, a royal family,
but still a family.
All parents out there
will have some experience
of siblings falling out
with one another.
And, you know,
you want them to stay together.
But yeah, I think she'd be
she'd be devastated.
How damaging do you think
it is to the monarchy
at a whole, Bill?
I mean, given that
obviously the queen
could do no wrong.
Everyone loved the queen.
But since she's gone,
it has been a catalogue
of disasters.
Yeah, I'm not sure
this one will be
significantly impacting
in terms of duration.
There's been lots worse stuff,
for example,
around the then Prince Andrew
that's really hit
the monarchy
and the royal family.
I'm not sure this one
will be lasting.
You know, there's going
to be a frenetic
press freeding frenzy
over the next few days
until the book is published.
But there's no way
of proving this.
And that's why, you know,
I'm not sure where this goes.
But I do agree.
And you've got
that memory of Diana.
I've got another one.
If you recall,
when she and Charles,
I think, had gone on a trip
to the South Seas
and arrived back
after about three weeks
and the boys had been at home.
And in typical
royal family fashion,
Charles walked off the boat
and kind of stood there
to attention,
expecting them to do it.
And she just run
and hugged them.
And, you know,
she was a mother
and that came across
really strongly.
And I agree with Matt,
she'll be turning in her grave
that this is happening
and the distance
between her boys.
Yeah, no, I really think so.
Do you think it's damaged
the royal family, Matt?
I do.
Yeah, I do.
And I think there are
lots of people in this country
who just think,
for goodness sake,
can we just move on?
Can we just move forward?
You know, because now
we've got the Harry
and the Meghan saga
coming back again.
And goodness,
I think everyone out there
is just sick of it, aren't we?
Well, I mean, Alistair has said,
I think it's despicable
that Spencer is trying
to get fame and money
off of his dead sister.
Meanwhile, Shazza
on the other side says,
I think Earl Spencer,
I believe Earl Spencer,
Charles is a woke,
arrogant, selfish king.
Charles would have done
anything to marry that woman.
I mean, this is,
we keep coming back
to the Camilla thing.
People that are on the side
of Charles Spencer
are on the side of Charles Spencer
because of Camilla.
Yeah, but look, OK,
I'm going to be blunt.
Go on, be blunt,
that's what you're here for, Bill.
It was an arranged marriage
and, you know,
there wasn't a genuine connection
from the outside.
It didn't appear
that there was love
on either side.
And, you know,
that was the way,
I'm not sure that's the way
the royal family would operate
in this day and age,
but that was the way
the royal family
and the monarchy
operated in those days.
Interesting.
Never Say Die said,
very damaging, hopefully.
That's not very nice, is it?
And Woken Up says,
I'm getting fed up
with this excessive child stuff.
He's an awful king
and a disgrace
to his mother's memory.
Lots of very strong opinions
on this one.
Do keep them coming in.
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