Earl Spencer, the member of Diana, Princess of Wales, has claimed King Charles said "we'll hide her soon enough" days aft her death, successful an extract from his upcoming memoir published by the Daily Mail.
Earl Spencer alleged the remark came aft helium insisted to the King that Diana would not person wanted Prince William and Prince Harry, past aged 15 and 12, to person to locomotion successful her ceremonial procession.
He has claimed the then-Prince of Wales questioned the Spencer family's consciousness of work and subjected him to a "stream of anger" implicit the phone.
BBC News has not seen Earl Spencer's memoir successful full. Buckingham Palace has been contacted for comment.
Swan Song: Diana, My Sister is owed to beryllium published adjacent week and is expected to beryllium hihgly captious of the Royal Family.
In the first extract, external from it to beryllium made public, Earl Spencer claims to person been informed by a elder Palace adjutant that the young princes would locomotion alongside Princess Diana's coffin, which helium objected to.
He claims to person received a telephone telephone from Charles soon after.
Earl Spencer wrote successful the book: "He [Charles] unleashed down the telephone what I person ever taken to beryllium his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his fearfulness that the satellite was truthful bowled implicit by her death. 'Rest assured,' helium hissed, 'we'll hide her soon enough'."
Earl Spencer's publication astir his sister seems acceptable to unfastened a precise hard clip successful the caller past of the Royal Family.
The decease of Diana, a hugely fashionable figure, successful a car clang successful 1997, had created a volatile atmosphere, successful which the royals were accused of failing to amusement feeling and empathy, and had seemed retired of interaction with the nationalist mood.
Earl Spencer's affectional and defiant code astatine her ceremonial added to that unreality of grievance hanging implicit Diana's untimely death.
Prince Harry has antecedently said that walking down his mother's coffin aged 12 was thing nary kid "should beryllium asked to do".
In 2017, helium told the BBC helium didn't "have an sentiment whether that was close oregon wrong", but "looking backmost connected it", helium was gladsome to person been portion of the day.
Earlier connected Wednesday, it emerged that copies of Earl Spencer's unreleased publication had been stolen from a motortruck successful the Netherlands.
BBC News understands 4 copies of the Dutch connection variation were taken from a motortruck portion it was en way from the Dutch publisher's printers to their warehouse.
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