Charles was apparently giddily elated at Diana's death

He’s also a self serving steaming hypocrite who swore to protect Diana’s sons at her funeral and has done the opposite.

I wonder if Earl Spencer's various divorced wives and a discarded fiancée were similarly giddily elated to be free of him.

And I suspect he has had a lifetime of watching people cash in on his sister's name and thought he needs to get himself some. Not least because of the fore-mentioned expensive divorces.

I can believe it, Charles/Diana divorce was deeply acrimonious. Charles would have felt like he had won.

I believe Earl Spencer. I think ordinary members of the public should stop judging the royals by their own normal person standards and thinking that deep down they are just like the rest of us....they are probably far more obnoxious and entitled than we can even imagine.

‘Sounded’. That is interpretation not fact.

Sometimes people react oddly to tragedy and death. Laughter can be a common reaction, for example.

Doesn’t mean he was actually happy about it, even if he did seem to act that way at some point.

Aren’t the royal family generally known for playing their cards close to their chest too? It seems unlikely he’d display elation in from if her brother if that was how he genuinely felt.

Seems a bit much to take it up now anyway, as others have said.

I don't think Prince Charles would have felt like that. His two sons were left without a mother. Her death meant it would be years before Camilla and he could be together or married. They was nothing to be giddily elated about. He previously talked about he and the Princess of Wales both trying to save their marriage.

For the love of God - how many threads do we need to have about this? And why @Tiramisuuu didn't you post this in the Royal Family topic?

I can't understand why you've joined MN to post this. Or have you name changed to hide your previous posts?

I assume you never looked at any of the photos of this "giddily elated" man around that time...

All these divorces must be expensive . He needs to include some juicy bits even if he has to make them up.. I'm not really a fan of Charles but I've seen multiple reports of royal reporters surprise at just how distraught he was around that time . I'm more inclined to believe those.

The more damning information is that Spencer says Charles ended with

‘Rest assured we will forget her soon enough’

A deeply shocking thing to say about the mother of your children

As a poster above points out the ‘children’ are now middle aged men.
Spencer has waited 30 years and has every right to say his piece now .

The Windsors have been having their say via the media for decades.

I hope no one buys his book. He is just after making some money and he’s vindictive.
We don’t know about the family arguments as we weren’t there and it’s none of our business.
I wish the media would deprive it of attention.
The king seems to be doing a good job of being the king and it must be horrible to have family members abetting the media in turning his life into a soap opera that probably has little similarity to reality.

I didn’t read Harry’s book and I won’t be reading this one either. What is WRONG with these people? Don’t they even think about the hurt they’re inflicting on their own family? Appalling behaviour.

And now we’re going to have to put up with weeks of speculation, interviews and denials. Utterly ridiculous. It’s all money-grabbing nonsense from some of the most privileged people in the country.

To be honest I dont believe it.
Nobody is elatedd as someone else's death, particularly if it is the other parent of your much loved children.
I cannot imagine how awful it must have been to wake up your children to tell them their mother had died as a result of a car crash.
All any parent would be thinking of would be their children & protecting them from the media shit-storm that followed.

They should have kept the children in Scotland, away from the London hysteria as long as possible.

I don’t believe Charles sounded elated and I don’t believe that the brother thought that. He’s coming across as cruel and a bit delusional. Fancy even thinking of putting this out there for w and h to hear, let alone actually doing it

Good point!! How on earth could he promise that and then publish this?!

So he sat on this info for nearly 30 years and decides now is the time to reveal all? 🤔William and Harry have been through enough. I hope he finds it's worth it if/when they cut ties with the weasel.

It's protocol in a funeral like that. He made the sons do it too as he was worried about getting boo'd.

My mother was over the fucking moon when her first husband died. Got straight on the phone to her solicitor to make sure the Decree Absolute didn't go through (she'd just received the Decree Nisi) and laughed her head off that she'd 'won'.

However, she didn't do that in front of their shared children and there would have been absolutely no good purpose or outcome in telling them about it at any point afterwards.

By publishing this exploitative book, Charles Spencer is behaving no differently to a thug who lands a punch outside a pub after too many pints. Death provokes all sorts of reactions in people and it's easy to judge. Well done Charles Spencer for stoking all of this up for your nephews and sisters.

This. There are multiple threads on this already.

And I don't believe a word that man (Charles Spencer) says.

As @Housewife2010 said· (Today 07:51)

Charles Spencer is a bitter, vindictive man who has had to pay out for several expensive divorces and the maintenance of a huge estate. He didn't go to his daughters' weddings and wouldn't allow Diana to have a post divorce bolt hole on his Althorp estate.

William has asked that his mother's memory be left to rest yet his uncle has taken advantage of the upcoming thirtieth anniversary of her death to publish his salacious book. I'm going to take his revelations with several kilos of salt.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

Also this. Despicable behaviour from a bitter, angry little individual who refuses to let his beautiful sister Diana's memory rest. How nasty he is. Poor William and Harry, having to put up with a vile uncle like him.

Conspiracies aside, I’m no royalist but I don’t think anyone can criticise his immediate reaction to such startling news, whatever it was in reality.

Have you all never responded inappropriately to bad news?

And her brother may have felt that was how Charles was feeling but it’s only his opinion. I have an awful boss and I always think the very worse of her - mostly I’m right to, but not always 🤣