If the royals didn’t like what Prince Harry had to say in his book, they’re DEFINITELY gonna hate this one!
Princess Diana‘s brother Charles Spencer has a new memoir coming out, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, and in it contains startling accusations about the royal family’s attitudes toward the people’s princess.
As we discussed on Wednesday, an excerpt of the tell-all has been shared with the Daily Mail, and their preview details a heated phone call Charles had with a then Prince Charles following the 1997 death of Diana.
To recap, King Charles allegedly told Charles Spencer:
“Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough!”
Yeah… yikes.
Well, it gets worse, if you can believe it. Anyone who’s closely followed the royals over the years knows there were tensions between the Princess of Wales and the royal family. And according to Di’s brother, her death seemed to offer some relief for their ongoing personal and PR woes.
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He claims Queen Elizabeth II‘s son sounded “giddily elated” now that Diana was no longer alive:
“The phone rang constantly. Prince Charles caught me as I crossed the landing upstairs. 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.”
Charles Spencer also references the controversy around Camilla Parker Bowles (now Queen Camilla)’s role in their lives, and how she was the woman Princes Charles was really in love with all that time:
“Looking back now, I suspect the prince’s first reaction must have been to think more of how this event might free him to marry the woman he loved, rather than appreciating the loss of one he did not.”
Perhaps most heartbreaking of all, he also says he suspects others in the Palace had their own relieved reactions to Diana’s passing:
“There were others in the Palace, I already knew, who were relieved – indeed, pleased – that she had gone.”
Just so sad to think about.
A rep for King Charles has subtly denied the claims, of course, saying:
“While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss.”
Swan Song: Diana, My Sister comes out Tuesday, September 22.
Will you be picking up a copy? Let us know in the comments (below).
[Image via Anwar Hussein/WENN]
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