King Charles responds to criticism from Princess Diana’s brother in rare move

R ReutersSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-09-16 · 22:46 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min

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King Charles has responded to criticism from his late first wife Princess Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, in a rare public statement. Via a spokesman, the King stated that grief can affect reason, judgment, and memory. These comments address assertions made in Spencer's upcoming book, which details the King's alleged conduct following Diana's death in 1997. According to a report, Spencer claims the then-Prince Charles told him, "rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough." The book's revelations pertain to the period after Diana's fatal car crash in Paris.

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Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

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Grief can impact reason, judgment and memory, according to King Charles via a spokesman.

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King Charles responded to criticism from Princess Diana’s brother.

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Charles Spencer alleges in a memoir that the then Prince Charles told him 'we’ll forget her soon enough'.

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Britain’s King Charles took the unusual step ⁠on Wednesday of ⁠responding to criticism by ⁠the brother of his late first wife Diana, saying via a spokesman that grief could impact reason, judgment and memory.The assertions, made in a soon-to-be published book, relate to the now-monarch’s ‌conduct in the days after Diana’s death in 1997.Diana was killed at the age of 36 when the car carrying her and her lover Dodi Fayed crashed in Paris as it sped away from chasing paparazzi photographers on motorbikes.Her brother, Charles Spencer, alleges in a soon-to-be-published ⁠memoir that the then Prince Charles told him “rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough”, ‌according to a report in the Daily Mail, which begins serialising the book on Thursday.

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