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Should Earl Spencer apologise to King Charles? Take our poll and have your say Princess Diana’s brother has levelled a series of claims against the monarch in his scathing new book, as he revealed Charles’ alleged comments after the princess’ shocking death Earl Spencer, the brother of the late Princess Diana, has hurled a series of accusations against the monarch in his new memoir about his sister. Spencer’s book - titled Swan Song: Diana, My Sister - was released last week, after being serialised in the media. In the first excerpt of the book, the Earl recalled the days after his sister’s death and conversations he had with the then Prince Charles about her funeral arrangements. Spencer said that after becoming embroiled in a heated argument with Charles, the King said: “Don’t worry, we’ll forget her soon enough.” In an unprecedented move from the Palace, the King released a cryptic statement in response to the shocking claims. A spokesperson for Charles said: “While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss.” Despite the statement, the allegations continued from Earl Spencer, as he claimed in another excerpt that Charles was “giddily elated” and sounded like a “lottery winner” when he called him after Diana’s death. Elsewhere in the memoir, Spencer said he was strongly against the idea of Princes William and Harry walking behind Diana’s coffin in the funeral procession, and butted heads with Charles over the idea. Just days before his book was released, the Earl spoke to the BBC to say that despite the King’s statement: “I can tell you here and now, those are exactly the words he said." Continuing his media appearances to promote the book, Spencer told Lorraine last week that he has ‘no regrets’ about penning the book, although insisted it is ‘not a hit piece against the King’. During the interview, the TV host quizzed the Earl on if he felt he was ‘going against the Royal Family ’ by writing the book, to which the earl said: “I’m really not. This is about Diana. It’s impossible to give the full story of Diana’s life without putting in context of certain things that were said. “This is not a threat at all because I’m not going to do it, but if I wanted to write a hit piece on the Royal Family, I could do that, but that’s not my job. My job is to celebrate Diana, and by doing that, some people might come off not as good as they would like to.” As Earl Spencer doubled down on his claims in the book, Princess Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell jumped to the King’s defense, saying the "rather spiteful revengeful point of view that he's penned" does not resemble what he witnessed, having spent considerable time with the Princess prior to her death in 1997. Appearing on Piers Morgan’s show, Burrell added that he thinks the memoir is "more about Earl Spencer than it is about his sister Diana." The former royal staffer said: "He speaks about the King being giddy with excitement when Diana died. Well Piers, I was in Paris, I saw the king. He was a broken man. He was devastated". Burrell added that when Charles exited the room in which Diana was with her sisters, he had clearly been crying. “His eyes were bloodshot. He was pale and he was scared," he said. The former butler added: "I don't recognise what Earl Spencer says about Prince Charles."