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“Charles Spencer is very definitely framing himself as being almost the hero of this story,” Jack Royston, Chief Royal Correspondent at Newsweek says, referring to Earl Spencer’s serialised memoir in the Daily Mail, which portrays King Charles as “dismissive of the tragedy of Diana's death.” Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer is making really really serious allegations against King
00:04Charles here basically suggesting that he was at the very least dismissive of the tragedy of Diana's
00:10death if not actually you know unmoved by himself. Now I'm sure Charles had pushed back very hard on
00:17that. I know he flew out to Paris and made sure to bring her home himself but what Charles Spencer
00:24is basically saying is that Charles got very angry with him that Charles wanted to have his own way
00:28that it was the king who was pushing this idea that Harry and William should walk behind the coffin
00:33and that Earl Spencer, Charles Spencer was the one who was pushing back who was the kind of you know
00:38the good man saying think of the children and don't make them do this. Now we know Harry now looking
00:44back on it thinks that they should never have been made to so Charles Spencer is very definitely framing
00:50himself as being almost the hero of this story who was fighting for his sister and fighting for her
00:56children. At the same time you know the king has endured years of negative publicity around the
01:05collapse of his marriage through the crown through the 20th anniversary of Diana's death and the public
01:12do still regard him with a significant amount of warmth you know it hasn't it while it did destroy
01:18his very very strong standing in the polls in the 1990s the public has gradually warmed back to him again
01:26now Charles's book is going to make major headlines Charles Spencer's book is going to make major
01:30headlines but I don't necessarily think it will fundamentally damage the king
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