Buckingham Palace has strongly rejected claims King Charles III “sounded giddily elated” after the death of Princess Diana, following an explosive claim made in a book by her brother, Charles Spencer.
Spencer’s new book, “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,” set to publish Tuesday, recounts how he was at home in South Africa when he heard the news his sister had died in a Paris car crash in 1997, a year after her divorce from Charles.
Then-Prince Charles sounded “giddily elated — like a lottery winner” Spencer wrote about his phone call in an extract published by the Daily Mail.
Spencer also accused Charles of berating him in a phone call to discuss funeral arrangements, saying, “We’ll forget her soon enough,” in a fit of anger.
Buckingham Palace flatly denied the claims in a statement, saying the king was “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.”
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