“You look a little plump from here.” 5 controversial allegations in the memoirs of Princess Diana’s brother and her relationship with Charles

Only a few excerpts from a new book by Earl Charles Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, have been published so far, but they have sparked a storm of controversy for the British royal family, as they brought back painful memories of Diana's unhappy marriage to King Charles III, and sparked a rare and strong rebuke from Buckingham Palace. A palace spokesman said in a statement: “While we do not comment on books in principle, His Majesty recognizes that the pain of brotherly grief can cloud thinking, cloud judgment, and color memory in ways that others are unaware of, even many years after such a loss.”

Ofoq News Network did not review the book “Swan Song” before its publication, but a spokesman for the Penguin Random House publishing house confirmed the accuracy of the excerpts published by the Daily Mail exclusively. These excerpts contain several revelations about the marriage of Charles and Diana, as well as the reaction of the then Prince of Wales to her death.

Here's what you need to know about the book before its release next week: Charles was 'extremely elated' after Diana's death Perhaps the most controversial claim in this anthology is Spencer's recollections of Charles' reaction to Diana's death. He recounted the details of that difficult night on August 31, 1997, tracing the events starting from the moment news of the fatal car accident that Diana suffered in Paris, and his repeated phone calls with his sister Jane, until the time he called his former brother-in-law after he learned of Diana’s death.

In that call, Spencer says Charles "seemed very cheerful - like someone who had won the lottery." “Looking back now, I think the prince’s first reaction was to think about how this event might free him to marry the woman he loved, rather than to appreciate the loss of the woman he didn’t love,” Spencer claims. 'We'll forget her very soon' During a subsequent call between the two men, as they argued about whether Princes William and Harry should walk behind their mother's coffin at her funeral, Spencer says Charles unleashed a "stream of rage", before pausing briefly.

“I assumed that this brief pause indicated an attempt to control himself,” Spencer wrote, “but then he unleashed - over the phone - what I always considered to be a deep-seated contempt for Diana, and a feeling of intense resentment at the global impact of her death, saying in a sharp tone: ‘Rest assured, we will forget her very soon!’” Spencer added: “I said to him in a sharp tone, ‘I can’t believe you just said that,’ before I hung up.”

The unhappy marriage of Charles and Diana Spencer also details his perception of his sister's unhappy relationship with the Prince of Wales at the time, and even claims that Diana tried to break off the engagement after Charles showed "almost no interest in her" during his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's twenty-first birthday party. “Immediately after that evening of heightened grief and grief, Diana went to see my father and told him that she could not proceed with marriage to a man who clearly did not love her,” Spencer wrote.

Spencer pointed out that his father refused to allow Diana to break off the engagement. Spencer stated that this incident occurred shortly after Diana found a bracelet that Charles had bought for his current wife, Queen Camilla.

Spencer wrote, citing a story his sister told a “close friend,” that Charles told Diana the day before their wedding that she “needs to know that he is very happy to marry her, but in reality he is not in love with her.” "Oh, you look a little chubby here, don't you?" Just a few days after the pair's engagement was announced, Spencer claims Charles squeezed Diana's waist and said: "Oh, you're looking a little plump from here, aren't you?" Spencer said Diana, who suffered from bulimia, found the comment "devastating."

“She later told me that her waist circumference had shrunk from 29 inches to 23 and a half inches between her engagement and marriage,” Spencer wrote. Queen Elizabeth II offered to restore the title of "Her Royal Highness" to Diana Spencer claimed that on the day of Diana's funeral, Queen Elizabeth II offered to restore the title "Her Royal Highness" (HRH) to her, which she had lost following her divorce from Charles.

These letters, which stand for His or Her Royal Highness, are used to refer to specific senior members of the royal family. The late Queen had announced, a year before the tragedy, that the title of “Her Royal Highness” would be withdrawn if the divorce occurred, which is what actually happened with Diana and Sarah Ferguson following her divorce from Prince Andrew at the time.

Spencer stated that Diana was "deeply hurt" by being stripped of that title in a move characterized by "petility and the desire for revenge", and decided to reject Elizabeth's offer of "good faith" and considered it a "consolation prize." Recalling a conversation between him and the Queen's private secretary, Robert Fellows, Spencer wrote: "I felt deep down how she would have viewed this posthumous honour.