- Earl Spencer has defended allegations made in his memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, maintaining that King Charles sounded "giddily elated – like a lottery winner" during a phone call shortly after Princess Diana's death in 1997.
- Responding to Buckingham Palace's statement that "grief can cloud reason", Earl Spencer told the BBC that he was “hyper-alert” during the conversation and promised that those were the precise words used by the King.
- Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch publicly backed the monarch following the revelations, stating that as leader of His Majesty's loyal opposition she is "always on the side of His Majesty".
- Further extracts from the serialised memoir claim Charles exacerbated Diana's eating disorder by making a derogatory comment about her weight prior to their 1981 wedding.
- Buckingham Palace responded to Earl Spencer’s claims on Wednesday, stating that the King is mindful that “grief can cloud reason”.
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