Piers Morgan Just Exposed the One Error That Breaks Earl Spencer’s Royal Memoir
Earl Spencer published a new memoir accusing King Charles of pure contempt for Diana.
Piers Morgan says the whole account falls apart under one basic fact check.
The mistake Morgan found has nothing to do with King Charles at all.
Earl Spencer Says Charles Wanted the World to Forget Diana
Earl Spencer's new memoir, Swan Song, claims King Charles made a chilling comment to him by phone shortly after Princess Diana's death in 1997.
Spencer says Charles told him during a conversation about whether William and Harry would walk behind their mother's coffin, "Rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough!"
Spencer frames that line as proof of what he calls Charles's "pent-up contempt" for Diana.
Buckingham Palace pushed back hard in a rare public statement, warning that "the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize."
Prince William reportedly sees the book as breaking a promise Spencer made at the funeral to protect him and his brother from exactly this kind of story.
Royal commentator Kinsey Schofield says William is asking a fair question: how dragging up disputed thirty-year-old private conversations helps anyone in the family today.
Biographer Christopher Andersen pushes back on Spencer's account directly, describing Charles as "devastated" and "crushed" when he learned Diana had died, based on multiple witnesses from that day.
Piers Morgan Says Spencer Got One Basic Fact Completely Wrong
Piers Morgan is not buying it, and he has a specific reason why.
Morgan says he cannot imagine Charles saying something so coldhearted about the mother of his children.
He cites Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, who described Charles as "a broken man" and "utterly grief-stricken" when he saw him in Paris hours after Diana died.
That account lines up with Andersen's, not Spencer's, and neither writer has any reason to flatter the King.
Then Morgan points to the hole in Spencer's credibility: the book identifies Morgan as the editor of the Daily Mirror back in 1993.
Morgan did not become Mirror editor until 1995, and in 1993 he was working at The Sun, not the Mirror at all.
Spencer already had to apologize once, for wrongly accusing Morgan of publishing invasive photos of Diana exercising, photos that actually ran two years before Morgan even joined that paper.
Morgan is now pursuing legal action against Spencer and his publisher, Penguin, over how Spencer characterized a separate phone call between the two of them about Diana's funeral, demanding the account be removed and damages paid to the King's Trust.
Spencer maintains that account is accurate, even after apologizing for the earlier mistake.
Why One Wrong Detail Matters for the Rest of the Book
A memoir that gets its timeline wrong twice is not a reliable record of a private conversation nobody else heard.
Spencer is asking readers to trust his memory of an explosive quote from thirty years ago while his book cannot even keep Piers Morgan's job history straight in the present.
Diana's family has shaped how the public remembers her death for three decades, and this memoir reads like one more chapter in the same project.
Nobody outside that phone call will ever know exactly what Charles said in 1997, but Spencer has already proven his memory cannot be trusted on the easy stuff.
If he cannot get Piers Morgan's job title right, the rest of the explosive quotes deserve a second look too.
Sources:
- Fox News, "Piers Morgan Questions Princess Diana's Brother's Explosive Claims About King Charles," Fox News, 2026.
- Newsweek, "Piers Morgan Taking Legal Action After Princess Diana Brother's Memoir," Newsweek, 2026.
- Fox News, "King Charles, Prince William 'Furious' as Princess Diana's Brother Unleashes Explosive Claims: Experts," Fox News, 2026.
- CBS News, "Charles Spencer's Striking Claims About the Royal Fallout Following Princess Diana's Death," CBS News, 2026.
