'This will not be a surprise to them': Earl Spencer suggests William and Harry already knew about his claim Charles said 'we'll forget about Diana soon enough' after her death

See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Published: 11:50 EDT, 20 September 2026 | Updated: 12:08 EDT, 20 September 2026 Earl Spencer has claimed his incendiary allegations about the King following the death of Princess Diana will 'not be a surprise' to Prince William and Prince Harry.The earl today suggested that he had informed the two brothers in the past that Charles remarked during a row over her funeral that their mother would soon be forgotten.The brothers are understood not to have been aware of the contents of Earl Spencer's forthcoming memoir about his sister, which include the King's reported comments. In an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, he said: 'I don't like to talk about what I've been speaking about to William and Harry, but this will not be a surprise to them. 'I will tell you that these words will not be a surprise to them.'The Royal Family is reeling from a string of explosive claims in the memoir – entitled Swan Song: Diana, My Sister – after extracts were exclusively published by the Mail last week.Earl Spencer's incendiary claim that – days after Diana's 1997 death – the then Prince Charles told him: 'Rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough' provoked a highly unusual response from the Palace.The Prince of Wales's alleged comment was made during a blistering row with the earl over whether Princes William and Harry, then aged 15 and 12, should walk in their mother's funeral procession.But in a statement, a Palace spokesman last week questioned the veracity of Earl Spencer's explosive account and said that fraternal grief can 'cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory'.Earl Spencer has claimed he had an explosive row with Charles after suggesting that he was uncomfortable with Harry and William, then both children, walking behind their mother's coffin in the funeral procession, which led to Charles attacking his family's sense of duty.He told the BBC today that evidence of his argument with Charles - and his reaction to his alleged comments - was actually contained within his famous eulogy at Diana's funeral. The earl today suggested that he had informed the two brothers in the past that Charles remarked during a row over her funeral that their mother would soon be forgotten In an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Earl Spencer said: 'I don't like to talk about what I've been speaking about to William and Harry, but this will not be a surprise to them.'As well as his notorious remarks that Diana's 'bloody family' would ensure her sons were protected, his eulogy also included the line: 'Above all, we give thanks for the life of a woman I'm so proud to be able to call my sister: the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana, whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds.'Earl Spencer said today of his explosive row with the future king on the eve of the funeral: 'You can see evidence of that conversation in the final eulogy. 'I really stress Diana's sense of duty - duty comes across very clearly in the eulogy, and then it culminates in something which I think really underlines the truth of my assertion here.'If you get to the final bit of my eulogy, it is that her fantastic qualities "will never be extinguished from our minds". 'It was a direct rebuttal of "we'll forget her soon enough".'The early also had to deny that he was making a threat against the King when he suggested that he had more unflattering material which he chose not to use in his book.He said: ‘This is not a threat, it's a fact, I know lots of things about the King which I chose not to include in the book because they were not relevant.’ Challenged that his remarks did, in fact, sound a bit like a threat, he continued: 'No, it's not at all a threat. It's just the reality. I want to give the context of what I said and what I didn't say, I'm not threatening. 'I'm not a salacious writer on any level, but if I was a salacious writer and wanted to write that sort of thing, I have plenty of other things I could have said, and really have no interest in doing so.'Earl Spencer later claimed he had no intention of making any further claims about the Royal Family, saying: 'That's it. That's me done.'