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Prince Harry Is Being Blamed for Staying Silent on Earl Spencer’s Diana Book—But Silence Is Not Proof He Endorses Its Attacks on King Charles

A new royal controversy has opened around Prince Harry.

But this time, he did not write the book at the center of it.

The book is Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, a new memoir by Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer and the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Published on September 22, 2026, the memoir contains some of the strongest allegations made about King Charles III’s behavior in the days after Diana’s death in 1997.

Spencer claims that the then-Prince Charles sounded “giddily elated” when speaking to him after Diana died.

He also alleges that during an argument over whether Prince William and Prince Harry should walk behind their mother’s coffin, Charles told him that Diana would soon be forgotten.

Buckingham Palace has taken the unusual step of responding.

That part of the controversy is real.

What is much harder to establish is the second story now being built around it: that Harry’s failure to publicly condemn his uncle proves he approved the book, wants his father damaged, or has effectively joined Spencer in a new attack on the monarchy.

Those conclusions go beyond the available evidence.

Harry has not publicly endorsed the allegations about his father.

He has not publicly repeated Spencer’s account.

He has not accused the King of being pleased about Diana’s death.

And he has not said the book speaks for him.

What he has done, at least publicly, is remain silent about its most explosive claims.

That silence has become a story of its own.

The reason is obvious.

Harry is not a distant observer.

He is Diana’s younger son.

He is Charles’s younger son.

He is also known to have a relationship with Earl Spencer, whose family estate at Althorp contains Diana’s grave.

When a memoir written by his maternal uncle accuses his father of extraordinary callousness after his mother’s death, Harry sits directly between the two sides of the dispute.

That makes every response significant.

It also makes the absence of a response tempting to interpret.

But interpretation is not the same as evidence.

The verified story begins with Spencer’s book.

In extracts published before release, Spencer recounts a series of conversations and arguments from the days after Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.

One of his most serious claims concerns the funeral procession.

William was 15.

Harry was 12.

Both ultimately walked behind Diana’s coffin through London alongside their father, grandfather Prince Philip and uncle Charles Spencer.

Spencer writes that he opposed involving the boys and believed Diana would not have wanted them to make that public walk.

According to his account, Charles insisted on taking part in the procession and argued with him over the arrangements.

It was during that dispute, Spencer alleges, that Charles said words to the effect that Diana would soon be forgotten.

Buckingham Palace did not simply ignore the allegation.

In a rare and pointed response, a Palace spokesperson said the King was mindful that the pain of losing a sibling could affect reason, judgment and memory even many years later.

The statement did not engage with every detail of Spencer’s memoir.

But its meaning was clear.

The Palace was challenging the reliability of his recollection.

Reuters, the Associated Press, the Guardian and other major outlets treated the response as unusually strong for Buckingham Palace.

Spencer then defended his version of events.

He said he remembered the conversation clearly and accused the King’s response of amounting to gaslighting.

That leaves the central allegation disputed.

Spencer says the conversation happened as he remembers it.

Buckingham Palace rejects that account.

There is no recording of the 1997 telephone call in the public domain.

There is no transcript independently establishing the exact words.

That means the allegation should remain attributed to Spencer rather than repeated as an established statement by Charles.

The same applies to Spencer’s claim that the then-Prince sounded “giddily elated” after Diana’s death.

It is Spencer’s characterization of a conversation nearly three decades ago.

It is not an independently verified description of Charles’s emotional state.

Contemporary footage and reporting documented Charles taking part in the arrangements following Diana’s death, traveling to Paris to accompany her body back to Britain and appearing publicly during a period of extraordinary grief and pressure.

None of that can prove what he felt during a private phone call.

It does, however, show why claims about a person’s private emotional state need careful attribution.

The Palace’s response did not end the argument.

Instead, friends and aides associated with the King began appearing in press reports with much sharper criticism of Spencer.

The Sunday Times reported comments from unnamed friends of Charles accusing Diana’s brother of hypocrisy for publishing private material after previously criticizing the press for intruding on his sister’s life.

One friend said Spencer had “peddled in the public bazaar” what remained of Diana’s privacy.

Another line described the “much-married” earl as bringing out his “crested carving knives.”

Those remarks are real in the sense that they were reported by The Sunday Times and repeated by other outlets.

But they were not an official statement from Buckingham Palace.

They came from unnamed friends and aides.

That distinction matters.

The King’s official response was carefully worded and focused on memory and grief.

The much harsher attacks on Spencer’s motives came through private briefings reported in the press.

Prince William has also been described as deeply upset by the book.

The Times reported that sources close to the Prince of Wales said he was angry about his uncle reopening events surrounding Diana’s death.

Other reporting has described William’s reaction as one of deep frustration and family anger.

But William himself has not issued a public statement attacking Spencer.

The Times also reported that William has chosen a “never complain, never explain” approach rather than entering into a public dispute.

So the situation is more restrained than some commentary suggests.

Charles has formally challenged Spencer’s recollection.

People around the King have attacked Spencer’s motives.

William is reported to be deeply unhappy.

Harry has said nothing publicly about the disputed allegations.

It is that last point that has become the basis for a separate attack on Harry.

In the uploaded broadcast, the presenters repeatedly argue that Harry’s silence is itself an “act of war.”

They suggest that because Harry has not publicly defended Charles, he must at minimum tolerate the attack and may even want the King damaged.

They also speculate that Swan Song could have been published with Harry’s blessing.

None of those propositions has been established as fact.

Silence can have many explanations.

Harry may agree with some of the book.

He may disagree.

He may not want to publicly challenge his maternal uncle.

He may not want to become part of another dispute involving his mother.

He may believe responding would amplify the controversy.

Or he may simply have chosen not to discuss it.

Without a statement from Harry or reliable reporting about his private position, assigning a motive to his silence remains speculation.

There is, however, a new fact that complicates the claim that Harry was blindsided or completely detached from the book.

Charles Spencer says he told Harry and William about the memoir before publication.

In an interview with People published just before the book’s release, Spencer said he informed William, Harry and his sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, at “exactly the same time.”

He also said Harry was “completely fine” about the book.

According to Spencer, Harry’s concern was whether there would be anything embarrassing about him personally in it.

Spencer says he reassured him there was not.

That is meaningful.

It suggests Harry knew the book existed before the current public explosion.

It also suggests, at least according to Spencer, that Harry did not object to the project when told about it.

But even that does not prove Harry endorsed every allegation about Charles.

Knowing that a relative is writing a memoir is not the same as approving every sentence.

Being “fine” with a book’s existence is not the same as validating disputed recollections inside it.

And Spencer’s account of Harry’s reaction comes from Spencer himself, not from Harry.

This is where the controversy needs to be separated into two questions.

The first is whether Harry knew about the book.

The evidence indicates that he did.

The second is whether Harry personally endorses Spencer’s claims that Charles was elated after Diana’s death or predicted she would be forgotten.

There is no verified public evidence that he does.

That difference gets lost when commentators turn silence into confession.

The relationship between Harry and Spencer also needs context.

Harry has maintained ties with his mother’s family.

He has visited Althorp.

His family has visited Diana’s grave there.

Spencer has publicly expressed sympathy for Harry and Meghan over their treatment by sections of the media.

In a BBC interview surrounding the launch of Swan Song, Spencer said he saw “echoes” of the treatment Diana received in some of the coverage directed at Harry and Meghan.

He also said the Sussexes should receive official security.

Those comments make clear that Spencer is sympathetic to his nephew on some major issues.

They do not prove a coordinated campaign against the King.

Spencer has also rejected the idea that he belongs to “Team Sussex.”

He has said he cares about both William and Harry and hopes the brothers eventually reconcile.

That is harder to fit into the simplified picture of two opposing royal camps.

The uploaded broadcast repeatedly divides the family into “Team Wales” and “Team Sussex,” with Spencer effectively placed alongside Harry and Meghan.

That framing may be useful for television debate.

It is not an established institutional reality.

Families can contain overlapping loyalties.

Spencer can be close to Harry while also caring about William.

Harry can have a relationship with his uncle without signing off on every attack in the uncle’s memoir.

William can be upset with Spencer without permanently severing every family relationship.

The public record does not justify turning each of those private relationships into formal alliances.

The harshest claims about Harry in the broadcast are even less grounded.

Commentators describe him as unintelligent, emotionally empty, embarrassing and motivated by victimhood.

They speculate about his mental state and suggest his public appearances show desperation.

Those are opinions.

They are not facts uncovered by a “royal leak.”

The same is true of claims that Harry “wishes for the King to be attacked and damaged.”

When the interviewer directly put that possibility to his guest, the guest declined to endorse it and said he did not know.

That moment is important.

Even within the highly critical conversation, the central accusation could not be substantiated.

The panel could criticize Harry for not speaking.

It could argue that a statement defending Charles would help reconciliation.

It could say his silence looks bad.

But it could not establish that Harry’s motive was to harm his father.

That is where responsible analysis should stop.

There is also a timing issue.

Harry has been publicly active during the controversy.

He attended Invictus-related events in Britain and appeared at the WellChild Awards.

Those engagements had specific charitable purposes.

There is no reason he would necessarily use a children’s charity appearance to discuss a family dispute over a memoir.

The absence of a spontaneous comment at such events does not itself establish approval of Spencer’s book.

If Harry wanted to distance himself from the memoir, he could certainly issue a statement through a spokesperson.

He has not done so.

That is a fair observation.

It is different from declaring his silence an “act of war.”

The story also sits inside a larger reconciliation narrative.

Harry and Meghan returned to live in Britain in 2026 after years based mainly in California.

Harry has expressed a desire for improved family relationships in the past.

Reporting around his return has again focused on whether his relationship with Charles could improve.

Against that background, Spencer’s book is awkward for him.

Publicly siding with his uncle would risk worsening relations with his father.

Publicly attacking Spencer could damage a relationship with the maternal family closely connected to Diana’s memory.

Saying nothing avoids choosing either side publicly.

Whether that is wise is a matter of opinion.

But the strategic difficulty is real.

The strongest verified development is therefore not that Harry has been “exposed.”

It is that a disputed memoir about Diana has reopened old divisions at a moment when Harry is trying to re-establish a life in Britain.

Spencer has made explosive claims.

Charles has rejected them.

People close to the King have retaliated through the press.

William is reported to be angry.

Harry was told about the book in advance and, according to Spencer, was “completely fine” with its existence.

But Harry has not publicly endorsed its attacks on his father.

That is the line the evidence supports.

The book itself also deserves the same distinction between recollection and proof.

Swan Song is a memoir.

It presents Diana’s life and the events around her death through her brother’s memory and interpretation.

That makes it historically interesting.

It does not make every private conversation independently verified.

Spencer himself describes the book as his perspective.

Buckingham Palace disputes some of his most damaging recollections.

Readers therefore have two conflicting accounts of private exchanges for which no independent record has emerged.

The responsible description is not that one side has “exposed” the other.

It is that a serious factual dispute now exists.

The title of the current online discussion—suggesting a prince has been exposed by a shocking royal leak—therefore overstates what has actually happened.

There was no leaked document proving Harry conspired with Spencer.

There was no private message published showing Harry approved the accusations.

There was no recording of Harry saying he wanted Charles hurt.

There was no Palace memo calling Harry’s silence an act of war.

Those conclusions come from commentators interpreting his lack of a public response.

What can be documented is narrower.

Earl Spencer published a controversial memoir about Diana.

He made serious allegations about King Charles’s conduct after her death.

Buckingham Palace issued a rare rebuttal.

Unnamed friends and aides of the King attacked Spencer in stronger terms through The Sunday Times.

William is reported to be deeply unhappy about the book.

Spencer says Harry and William were both told about it before publication.

Spencer says Harry was “completely fine” with it.

And Harry has so far not issued a public statement repudiating his uncle’s claims.

That final fact may continue to attract criticism.

It may become relevant if Harry is simultaneously seeking a closer relationship with his father.

It may also prompt questions about how Harry balances loyalty to his mother’s family with his relationship with Charles.

Those are legitimate issues to examine.

But they remain questions.

Silence is not a quotation.

Silence is not a leaked document.

And silence, by itself, does not prove that Prince Harry wanted an attack on the King.

For now, the real royal fight is between Earl Spencer’s recollection of what happened after Diana’s death and Buckingham Palace’s rejection of that recollection.