Memoirs from Princess Diana's brother and allegations of what Charles said on the phone a few days after her death

Charles Spencer, the brother of the late Princess Diana, mentioned in his upcoming memoir that King Charles told him - a few days after her death - that they would “soon forget her,” according to excerpts published by the Daily Mail on Wednesday. Spencer pointed out that Charles - who then held the title of Prince of Wales - vented his anger at him over the phone, after Spencer expressed his opinion that his sister did not want her two sons, William and Harry, to participate in her funeral procession.

Buckingham Palace rejected the allegations made by Spencer; In an unusually assertive statement that attributed the reaction directly to the king, the palace implied that Spenser's grief had affected his judgment. A palace spokesman said in a statement: “Although we do not comment on books in principle, His Majesty is fully aware that the pain of losing a brother may distort thinking, affect judgment, and color memories in ways that others may not realize, even many years after such a loss.”

The Ofoq News network did not review the book “Swan Song” before its publication, but a spokesman for the publishing house “Penguin Random House” confirmed to the network that the excerpts quoted from the book are accurate. The Daily Mail newspaper has obtained exclusive rights to publish excerpts from it in a series starting Thursday - according to what the newspaper reported - which described the book as “resounding” (or highly controversial).

Spencer wrote about that tense phone call in his book, scheduled to be published next week, which is expected to include harsh criticism of the royal family. He said: “Prince Charles continued to rage without me interrupting him, then stopped. I thought that silence indicated an attempt to control his emotions, but he quickly unleashed - over the phone - what I always considered to be a hidden contempt he had for Diana, and a feeling of intense resentment at the state of astonishment that gripped the world following her death.”

“‘Relax,’ he said in a sharp, low tone, ‘We’ll forget about it soon!’” Spencer added, “I can’t believe you just said that,” I deadpanned, and then I hung up. The Princess of Wales died in August 1997 from internal injuries resulting from a horrific high-speed car accident in Paris; her sons - then aged 15 and 12 - walked in the funeral procession days later.