Earl Spencer has accused the King of gaslighting him after Buckingham Palace responded to claims he made in his new book.
The Earl alleged that during a phone call before the funeral of his sister Diana, the then Prince of Wales remarked: “Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough.”
The allegation prompted a response from Buckingham Palace, which said “the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason”.
Now, the Earl has accused the King of gaslighting him and called the response a “rather poor imitation of the ‘recollections may vary’ quote” – the late Queen’s response to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s allegations in their Oprah Winfrey interview, The Mail on Sunday reported.
He said: “It is not every day you wake up to find you’ve been gaslit by the King.
“It was astonishingly provocative and below the belt because it was essentially trying to say I’d lied without the King being able to deny what I’d said.
“I also thought it was a rather poor imitation of the ‘recollections may vary’ quote, which was a much more elegant way of putting things, but in these circumstances entirely out of place.” » | Telegraph Reporters | Sunday, September 20, 2026
