Princess Diana's brother makes explosive claims about the King - Watch Thursday's ITV Evening News

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Princess Diana's brother reopens old wounds with more explosive claims about the now-King's reaction to his former wife's death. Claims include he sounded 'giddy' and 'elated', like a lottery winner, when he called Charles Spencer to pass on his condolences, and his suspicions that some in the Palace were relieved at her death. We take you through more claims in his book: disagreements over the planning of her funeral, the controversial decision to allow her sons to walk behind her coffin, and that Diana had contemplated ending her life on more than one occasion. Also on the programme: - The family of the man accused of being the Putney pusher say the police investigation drove him to his death. - Hope for advanced breast cancer patients, as a deal is finally done over a life-extending drug being offered on the NHS. - The behaviour of far-right activists force the closure of an RNLI lifeboat station in Portsmouth. - And why a teenager is about to go global with a thoroughly Bri

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