This week’s headlines have been dominated by Ed Sheeran, Earl Spencer’s King Charles claims and the threat of AI so naturally, Saturday Night Live UK took a pop at them all in last night’s opening sketch.
SNL UK’s first sketch of the night on Saturday (19 September) saw the cast bring back Princess Diana as an AI assistant for King Charles, mocking the monarch allegedly saying that she would be forgotten “soon enough” while arguing with Earl Charles Spencer over her funeral arrangements in 1997. Spencer made the bombshell claim in an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg earlier this week while promoting his upcoming memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, with Buckingham Palace responding by saying that “the pain of fraternal grief can cloud, reason, affect judgement and colour memory in ways others do not recognise”.
