'I'm telling the truth': Earl Spencer defends Diana book claims about Charles in BBC interview
Is he furious or is he embarrassed?." Speaking to the BBC at his Althorp estate, he added: "I've only ever had two calls on the line with Prince Charles at any stage of my life. "I was hyper alert to what he was saying and those are precisely the words that he said and I promise that to you now. I don't hear him saying he didn't say that."Pressed on whether he had evidence to back up the claim, he said he told family and friends at the time what had been said "because it was so monstrous".
- ▪Is he furious or is he embarrassed?." Speaking to the BBC at his Althorp estate, he added: "I've only ever had two calls on the line with Prince Charles at any stage of my life.
- ▪"I was hyper alert to what he was saying and those are precisely the words that he said and I promise that to you now.
- ▪I don't hear him saying he didn't say that."Pressed on whether he had evidence to back up the claim, he said he told family and friends at the time what had been said "because it was so monstrous".
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 21 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Charles sounded ‘giddily elated‘ after Diana’s death, claims Earl Spencer — The Guardian — World
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'I'm telling the truth': Earl Spencer defends Diana book claims about Charles in BBC interview<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Watch: Earl Spencer says he's 'telling the truth' about what Charles said after Diana diedByLaura KuenssbergBBC presenterPublished21 minutes agoPrincess Diana's brother has told the BBC exclusively that he is "telling the truth" about a phone call with King Charles in the days after his sister's death.
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