Charles Spencer says he told Barbara Walters at the time that King Charles had said, “We’ll forget her soon enough,” after Princess Diana’s 1997 death. He repeated the account on CBS Mornings while discussing his new book about his sister.
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said it does not comment on books as a matter of principle, adding that fraternal grief can cloud reason, judgment and memory.
In the book, Spencer says the call followed a dispute over whether Princes William and Harry, then 15 and 12, would walk behind Diana’s coffin. He said he opposed the plan after a royal aide raised it, and that the call from then-Prince Charles became heated.
