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of incendiary allegations have emerged in Earl Spencer\u2019s memoir \u2013 threatening to open old wounds and ignite new royal rows.\n\n\n\nAs the Earl\u2019s controversial tell-all, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, hits shelves in the UK, here are some of the most bombshell claims contained within the salacious 367 pages \u2013 with Buckingham Palace forced to make an \u201cunprecedented\u201d response.\n\n\nA slew of allegations have emerged in the Earl\u2019s shocking memoir Credit: PA\n\nHe alleges his father and the late Queen Elizabeth II \u2013 both pictured here after Diana and Charles\u2019 wedding \u2013 had a \u2018romantic connection\u2019 before she met Philip Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd\n\n\nAl Fayed \u2018groping\u2019\n\n\n\nEarl Spencer claims Mohamed Al Fayed groped Diana early on in her romance with his son Dodi.\n\n\n\nThe disgraced businessman, who died in 2023 aged 94, remains at the centre of more than 400 allegations of sexual 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\n\n\n\nThe Earl, who said the phone was ringing constantly at the time, claimed in his book: \u201cUnlike my other callers, who were stunned, barely able to articulate their condolences and offers of help, he sounded giddily elated \u2013 like a lottery winner, I remember thinking at the time.\u201d\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMost read in Royals\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\nEarl Spencer claims he has turned down \u2018endless\u2019 requests to appear in a Diana documentary, including from \u2018a nephew\u2019 \u2013 believed to be Harry Credit: Getty\n\nSwan Song: Diana, My Sister hit shelves in the UK today Credit: PA\n\n\nKing Charles was also alleged to have sounded \u201cstrangely matter-of-fact, given the enormity of the disaster,\u201d according to the Earl.\n\n\n\nThe excerpt continued: \u201cLooking back now, I suspect the prince\u2019s first reaction must have been to think more of how this event might free him to marry the woman he loved, rather than appreciating the loss of one he did not.\n\n\n\n\u201cIt can be hard to feel too much sympathy for an ex-spouse, or those who care for them profoundly, after bitter divorce.\u201d\n\n\n\nDiana\u2019s brother has also claimed the late Queen reacted \u201ctetchily\u201d to the news of his sister\u2019s car crash.\n\n\n\nHe said she asked, \u201cwhat\u2019s she been up to now?\u201d before the accident\u2019s seriousness became clear.\n\n\n\n\u2018We\u2019ll forget her soon enough\u2019\n\n\n\nBuckingham Palace hit back last week after it emerged Spencer sensationally alleged Charles said \u201crest assured, we\u2019ll forget her soon enough\u201d in his memoir. \n\n\n\nThe book claims Charles \u201cwent nuts\u201d in a discussion about the then-very young William and Harry walking behind their mum\u2019s coffin at her funeral.\n\n\n\nThe Earl\u00a0told him\u00a0Diana\u00a0would not have wanted her children to endure such a public ordeal, he claims.\n\n\nThe Earl writes that Mohamed Al-Fayed, the late Egyptian 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I assumed the pause signalled an effort to bring himself under control.\n\n\n\n\u201cBut then he unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his\u00a0horror\u00a0that the world was so bowled over by her death.\n\n\n\n\u201cRest assured, he hissed, \u2018we\u2019ll forget her soon enough!\u2019\u201d\n\n\n\nEarl Spencer says he was stunned\u00a0and took a few seconds before replying flatly: \u201cI can\u2019t believe you just said that\u201d and hanging up.\n\n\n\nHis description of the shocking outburst threatens to reopen the wounds of the \u201cWar of the Waleses\u201d and\u00a0Prince\u00a0Charles\u2019s bitter split\u00a0and\u00a0eventual divorce from Diana.\n\n\n\nAnd when he was asked what his nephews will make of these allegations three decades later, he said: \u201cWell, I don\u2019t like to talk about what I\u2019ve been speaking about to William and Harry.\n\n\n\n\u201cBut these words will not be a surprise to them.\u201d\n\n\nEarl Spencer, Harry and William, and the then-Prince Charles arrive at Diana\u2019s funeral Credit: AFP\n\nThe King and Earl engaged in a \u2018war of words\u2019 after Diana\u2019s death Credit: PA\n\n\nThe claims about Charles have prompted an \u201cunprecedented\u201d response from Buckingham Palace.\n\n\n\nA Royal spokesman said: \u201cWhile we do not comment on books as a matter of\u00a0principle, 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.\u201d\n\n\n\nDiana \u2018offered title back\u2019\n\n\n\nDiana controversially lost her royal title when\u00a0she and Charles\u00a0divorced in 1996.\n\n\n\nBut according to\u00a0Diana\u2018s brother, the Queen\u2019s private secretary\u00a0Robert Fellowes\u00a0extended the offer to restore the title.\n\n\n\nEarl Spencer, 62, claims he received the offer from\u00a0Mr Fellowes, who died in 2024, just hours after he delivered his defiant eulogy at Diana\u2019s funeral.\n\n\n\nHe wrote: \u201cI felt that I knew in my bones how she would view this posthumous award.\n\n\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s very kind of the\u00a0Queen, of course. 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