Earl Spencer Accused of Forming ‘Pincer Alliance’ with Prince Harry to Damage King Charles via Explosive Diana Memoir
The forthcoming publication of Swan Song: Diana, My Sister by Earl Charles Spencer has reignited a bitter media war at the heart of the British Royal Family, drawing severe accusations from senior palace biographers.
Speaking on GB News, author Tom Bower alleged that the late Princess of Wales’s brother has deliberately joined forces with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, orchestrating a calculated commercial and psychological strike designed to inflict maximum reputational damage on King Charles III.
The controversy erupted following serialised excerpts detailing a volatile telephone conversation shortly after Diana’s fatal 1997 Paris car crash. Spencer claimed that the King—then the Prince of Wales—went “ballistic” down the line, haranguing the Spencer family’s devotion to royal duty before callously declaring: “Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough.” Doubling down on his testimony during a high-profile BBC interview with Laura Kuenssberg, the 62-year-old earl branded the King’s alleged remark “monstrous,” insisting he immediately reported the shocking words to close confidants at the time.
The memoir further alleges that Diana once drove to Beachy Head contemplating suicide before pulling back for the sake of William and Harry, while also claiming Queen Elizabeth II considered restoring Diana’s HRH style.
Veteran royal observers, including Bower and Richard Fitzwilliams, have framed the memoir’s timing as a coordinated “pincer movement,” noting that it lands mere weeks after the Sussexes relocated to Britain and shares the same publisher, Penguin Books, behind Prince Harry’s 2023 tell-all Spare. While sources indicate Harry met with his uncle at Althorp in July and was aware of the forthcoming book, Bower fiercely dismissed Spencer’s portrayal of Charles’s emotional detachment, citing Balmoral insiders who confirmed the Prince was paralyzed by genuine shock and profound grief in 1997.
Maintaining royal decorum, Buckingham Palace refrained from issuing a formal rebuttal but released a pointed observation noting His Majesty recognizes that “the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise.”