AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Buckingham Palace fires back after Diana's brother accuses King Charles of contempt for the late princess
Buckingham Palace issued a rare and pointed public statement rebuking allegations by Princess Diana's brother that King Charles dismissed her memory days before her 1997 funeral, a charge the Palace suggests is distorted by decades of grief. Earl Charles Spencer's forthcoming book, "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister," contains an explosive claim: that the then-Prince of […] The post Buckingham Palace fires back after Diana's brother accuses King Charles of contempt for the late princess appeared first on American Almanac .
Buckingham Palace issued a rare and pointed public statement rebuking allegations by Princess Diana's brother that King Charles dismissed her memory days before her 1997 funeral, a charge the Palace suggests is distorted by decades of grief. Earl Charles Spencer's forthcoming book, "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister," contains an explosive claim: that the then-Prince of Wales hissed, "Rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough!" in a phone call with Spencer in the days before Diana's funeral. The allegation, first published in a Daily Mail excerpt on September 16 , prompted a response from the Palace that multiple outlets described as unusually forceful for an institution that typically declines to comment on books. A Buckingham Palace…Open