The claims were made in a memoir of Diana’s brother Earl Spencer which is being serialised in the Daily Mail.
Just days after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, then-Prince Charles told her brother “rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough”, it has been claimed.
It is alleged that the comment was by made by Charles, who was then the Prince of Wales, over arrangement for Diana’s funeral where Prince William and Prince Harry, then aged 15 and 12, would walk in their mother’s funeral procession in September 1997.
In response to the claims, made in a memoir of Diana’s brother Earl Spencer which is being serialised in the Daily Mail, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said Charles is “mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason”.
The statement reads: “While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss.”
Charles is said to have made the comments about his ex-wife in a row over funeral preparations and to have questioned the Spencer family’s sense of duty.
The Earl says he insisted to the then Prince of Wales that Diana would not have wanted her young sons to have made the difficult public walk, it is claimed
According to the newspaper, Earl Spencer says the book – Swan Song: Diana, My Sister – has been written to correct “untruths” told about his older sister, who died in a Paris car crash in August 1997.
