Palace issues emotional statement saying ‘grief can cloud reason’
King Charles attends AI summit in ScotlandKing Charles sounded “giddily elated” and “like a lottery winner” on the day of Princess Diana’s death, her brother, Earl Spencer, has claimed in his bombshell memoir.
“Unlike my other callers, who were stunned, barely able to articulate their condolences and offers of help, he sounded giddily elated – like a lottery winner, I remember thinking at the time,” Earl Spencer wrote in the memoir, serialised in the Daily Mail.
“He let me know he had informed William and Harry of their mother’s death, first thing that morning, in their bedrooms at Balmoral. It all sounded strangely matter-of-fact, given the enormity of the disaster.”
Spencer said he believes Charles’ reaction reflected “how this event might free him to marry the woman he loved, rather than appreciating the loss of one he did not”.
The Independent has contacted Buckingham Palace for a response.
It comes after it emerged that the book alleges that in the days after Diana’s death, King Charles had said: “rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough”.
His remarks were allegedly made during a major dispute over funeral arrangements after Diana’s death in August 1997.
In an unusually strong rebuke, Buckingham Palace said that the King is mindful that “grief can cloud reason”.
