00:00Explosive allegations about King Charles' behaviour after Princess Diana's death have
00:04surfaced in Earl Spencer's new memoir, Swan Song, Diana, My Sister, which was published on Tuesday.
00:09Here are the Earl's most shocking claims. Firstly, Earl Spencer claims Charles' reaction to Diana's
00:15death differed drastically from other callers, writing, he sounded giddily elated, like a lottery
00:20winner, I remember thinking at the time. The Earl also says he insisted that Diana wouldn't have
00:24wanted Prince William and Prince Harry, aged 15 and 12 at the time, to have walked in her funeral
00:29procession. He claims Charles called him in anger and eventually unleashed his true feelings, hissing,
00:34rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough. Spencer says Diana had suspected Charles was having a
00:40secret tryst with Camilla Parker-Bowles months before their wedding. Addressing the 1980 royal
00:44train scandal, Diana's brother recalls Charles being accused of smuggling a blonde woman onto the
00:49train for an alleged romantic rendezvous. Earl Spencer then writes, after her marriage took the direction
00:54it did, Diana became convinced that she must have been Camilla Parker-Bowles, particularly as the
00:59railway siding was just 19 miles from Camilla's home. The Earl then alleges that Diana had told
01:04him that by her wedding day she had been in the throes of an eating disorder for five months,
01:09triggered by her engagement photos and Charles allegedly squeezing her waist, saying,
01:13oh, a bit chubby here, aren't we? And finally, speaking about his concern for Prince Harry,
01:18Earl Spencer recalls the train journey after Diana's funeral, writing,
01:22My chief memory of that train journey is of being concerned at the lack of obvious care for Harry
01:26as he decompressed from the ghastliness of the morning. He needed Diana's hugs, of course,
01:31and they would forever be denied him, but instead of calm and nurture, he was allowed to spin out of
01:36control. I have often looked back, reckoning that a more caring hand at such points as this
01:40would have helped him enormously in the future. Instead, he seemed so very alone in his despair and
01:45torment. Head online to The Standard to read the full list of the 12 most shocking claims from Earl
01:50Spencer's memoir.
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