Royal Editor reacts to bombshell claim Charles said Diana would be forgotten 'soon enough'
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It is the most extraordinary claim about events which are seared in the nation’s memory, from the brother of Princess Diana. And the response from the Palace tonight has been unusually sharp. Earl Spencer’s new book about his sister and the events which led to her death and funeral was always going to cause issues for Buckingham Palace and re-open wounds that are nearly three decades years old. In the first part of the Daily Mail's serialisation of Charles Spencer’s book, Swan Song, he recalls a conversation with the then Prince Charles in the days before Diana’s funeral. There were discussing whether or not Princes William and Harry should walk behind their mother’s coffin. It is Spencer’s recollection that the two men - Charles Spencer and the Prince of Wales - had a huge argument about it. Earl Spencer writes, according to the serialisation in the Daily Mail: "Prince Charles continued his stream of anger, without me interrupting. Then he stopped. "I assumed the pause signalle
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