Royal row between King Charles and Earl Spencer 3

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A new thread and book not even published till Tuesday. I checked on Amazon and its only 12th on the non fiction bestseller list. Doesn't show Earl Spencer in a very good light imho.

Does he not realise that,in 2026,everyone has access to instant information and can check facts?

I've learnt more that I ever thought I needed about this man and he doesn't sound like a very pleasant man.

“Sinecured”? That’s a very unusual word use….

Quite! I'd like such a sinecure!

They are laughing there, not smiling. It is a different facial expression

Yes, that was a strange one. Someone on another thread suggested Spencer was jealous of KC because his father Philip had married QE.
All very odd.

And two journalists have already corroborated what CS has said about his conversation with the then Prince Charles.

Can you reference those, please?

So far, I have only seen comments that have confirmed that Charles S had harsh words with Charles R, but not confirmed what was said.

Also, how can two journalists "corroborate" the conversation? Where were they?

That makes sense, actually, that Charles W was referring to the baying mob. Particularly if it was to do with funeral arrangements for Diana and trying to appease them. What we don’t have with this alleged comment is any sense of context, which, of course would entirely change the meaning of what was said. This remains me a lot of the Sussexes playing with semantics. Cheap.

ETA I would also say that Charles being “in love with his valet” could also be taken as Diana saying he paid his valet more attention than her. Not as Charles literally being in love with his valet. Context is important but is sadly lacking here

Quite.

At most, they could say that Charles S told them the exact words just after the conversation, but I haven't seen that.

Richard Kay pointed out that Charles was a journalist and wrote everything down, so will have notes of this conversation.
When asked about it in his interview, Charles made no mention of this.

Times report of the interview here. He doesn't come across as having written this book in the usual manner of a historian.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/2e98ea81-3855-4399-9066-1d8384e2810d?shareToken=3f091e7c6fe0f1ea744a44f253299451

We do have the context.

That explains why he seems to have it in for William.

Charles Spencer told them what the king had said at the time. That is corroboration.

Have you got him mixed up with someone else? Can you provide a source or link bc I have done a search for that and nothing comes up. It doesn’t sound like something he would do at all.

Jephson absolutely isn’t a nasty man. He is very measured and decent.

And after he received an unreserved public apology and substantial damages from the BBC in March 2022 for the deceit perpetrated by Martin Bashir who falsely told Diana that Jephson and others were spying on her for the palace, he donated the damages received in full to a Welsh children's hospice in memory of Princess Diana alongside covering his legal costs.

Given how his job ended with Diana and he didn’t discover why until twenty or so years later and his name was wrongly tarnished in the meantime, that was a very generous thing to do as he had every reason to feel bitter.

No, I haven't got the link, sorry, but I thought it was an exceptionally unpleasant thing to do. William was a child.

Exactly, and the extract doesn’t include any details of the row, maybe the book will provide more context, needs to if Spencer wants to be seen as accurate in his recounting.

Ok, that makes sense.

No, he waited until his brother-in-law Robert Fellows died to publish. And also to cash in on the thirty year anniversary.

Sorry I think you are confused and it was someone else.
There is an AI generated video apparently on tiktok you might be referring to?

He didn’t do it then? If it exists you should be able to link it through an AI search?

Surely it’s the reigning monarch and advisers who decide who is buried at frogmore.

What is wrong with the word ‘sinecure’

I’d say it’s pretty good description of the royals and their many employees.

No, it wasn't on tiktok, I don't have that.
It was a documentary on tv about Diana, to which he was a contributor. I will try to find it.

So the employees do nothing at all? Sweet deal.

Yes ultimately. But there are rules for who is buried there. But the monarch can make an exception. She offered to make an exception for Diana. But Charles Spencer did not want that exception made. He wanted the rules to be followed.

You think that of posters on here?