A royal expert has said that the Sussexes will be very pleased about the mayhem caused by Earl Spencer's new book. Royal author Robert Jobson appeared on Talk TV to discuss Earl Spencer's bombshell book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister. In it, he claims that, before Princess Diana's funeral in 1997, King Charles said to him in a phone call: “Rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough.” Spencer added that Charles sounded “giddily elated…like a lottery winner” when he spoke to him about Diana's death.
Sussexes' Return Timing Questioned
Talk TV host Kevin O'Sullivan asked Jobson if he thought that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ensured that their return to the UK coincided with the release of the book. Jobson said: “They got their timing right, it's convenient timing.
“I would say that they knew there was going to be a row when Spencer's book came out, and maybe they could hide behind that in a little way, because they wouldn't be the story. But as it's happened, we've had two weeks of pure narrative from them about security issues.”
Palace Response and Fallout
The royal author went on to say: “It does seem a lot for the King to be dealing with at this moment in time, you've got to feel for him, I do. And for William too, not only has he had difficulties with his brother, but now his uncle's turned on them.”
Buckingham Palace delivered a pointed response to the memoir on Wednesday. No further response to the allegations has been released. A Palace spokesman said: “While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss.”
Jobson said that King Charles and Prince William must be “furious” but “knew it was coming”, as books like Earl Spencer's don't “just appear” and they would have been prepared. The expert added that the Palace shouldn't have commented on the book and that its statement was “nonsense”, saying that the phrasing led him to believe the conversation between King Charles and Earl Spencer “must have happened”.
