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Laura Elston

Earl Spencer claims he told Barbara Walters about King’s alleged Diana remark

Earl Spencer has named one of the people he spoke to after his conversation with the then-Prince of Wales (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA) - (PA Media)

Earl Spencer has claimed he told US news anchor Barbara Walters the King said “we’ll forget her soon enough” in the wake of Diana, Princess of Wales’s death.

Speaking to Gayle King on CBS Mornings, Diana’s brother Charles Spencer said he shared the remark in 1997 with trailblazing journalist and broadcaster Walters, who died in 2022.

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