Piers Morgan has launched another furious attack on Earl Spencer, questioning why Princess Diana's brother is continuing to sell copies of his memoir containing an error about the broadcaster.
Tina Brown to interview Earl Spencer
Journalist Tina Brown announced that she will interview the Earl about his controversial new book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, at an event in New York on Tuesday evening. The journalist wrote on X, (formerly Twitter) on Monday afternoon: "Good news for everyone interested in watching my live interview Tues at 7pmET with Charles Spencer, author of an explosive new memoir about his sister, Princess Diana. We’ve added a livestream. Hope you can join us in real time!"
Piers Morgan hit back on the social media platform, reposting Brown’s announcement and taking another swipe at Spencer over his memoir. He wrote: "Ask him why he’s still selling copies containing an admitted defamatory lie about me for which he’s issued a grovelling apology… how does a ‘historian’ justify that?"
Legal action and apology
This comes after Princess Diana's younger brother suggested Piers was responsible for publishing hidden-camera photographs of Diana in a leotard working out in a gym, which appeared in the Daily Mirror newspaper in 1993.
The Earl has since apologised. The statement on behalf of Earl Spencer read: "The photographs were published by the Sunday Mirror on November 7 1993. Mr Morgan has pointed out that he did not join the Daily Mirror until October 1995. As an historian, accuracy is important to Earl Spencer. He therefore wishes to clarify that his assumption was incorrect. Earl Spencer apologises to Mr Morgan for this error."
Piers, however, has said he is still pursuing legal action against the Earl. He wrote: "Earl Spencer has apologised to me for his defamatory lies published in his new book, Swan Song, published today. But I am pursuing legal action against him and his publisher, Penguin, to have the lies removed and damages paid to the King's Trust."
Brown's support for the memoir
Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor and author. Between 1979 and 2001, she was editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk. She wrote on X last week on the day the book came out: "There have been many howls of condemnation against Charles Spencer for publishing his memoir 'Swan Song: Diana, my sister,' now. But when exactly would be a good moment to publish it? After the next Epstein file dump on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor?"
This is an excerpt from an article she published on Substack where she discusses the new memoir and describes it as a "new literary hand grenade." She then provided a link to her Substack. She concluded the article by writing: "Charles Spencer was there for all this history, indelibly present in one of the most iconic tableaux of the late 20th century, watched around the world by more than two billion people. 'We were buffeted by the rawest of emotions on a terrible scale, for the longest time, and we could not process it. We could just feel it.' After holding back for so long, his memoir finally tells us what it was like. The 'extraordinary and irreplaceable' Diana is once again applauding."
