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King Charles issues rare statement over Earl Spencer's explosive Princess Diana book

King Charles has hit out at Earl Spencer

King Charles has hit out at Earl Spencer over claims made in his former brother-in-law's new book about the late Princess Diana.

Buckingham Palace suggested the 62-year-old earl's grief over his beloved sister - who died in a Paris car crash in August 1997 - had "clouded reason" and "affected judgement" after he claimed in Swan Song: Diana, My Sister that the monarch had sneered Diana would be forgotten "soon enough" during a phone call in the days following her passing.

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