Should the King have responded in the way he did to Earl Spencer's bombshell Diana comments?
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Earl Spencer’s new book about his sister, Diana, and the events which led to her death and funeral was always going to cause issues for Buckingham Palace and reopen old wounds nearly three decades old. In the first part of the Daily Mail's serialisation of Charles Spencer’s book, Swan Song, the Earl recalls a conversation with the then Prince Charles days before Diana’s funeral about whether or not Princes William and Harry should walk behind their mother’s coffin. It is Spencer’s recollection that the two men had an argument After which, according to the serialisation in the Daily Mail, Earl Spencer writes: "I assumed the pause signalled an effort to bring himself under control, but then he unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death. 'Rest assured,' he hissed, 'we’ll forget her soon enough!'" Baroness Ayesha Hazarika and former conservative chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng discuss
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