Royal Commentator Dickie Arbiter spoke out just an hour after the BBC broadcast a bombshell sit down chat with Earl Spencer, saying his bombshell revelations are helping no one
A Royal expert has slammed Earl Spencer’s claim that he is hoping to help and protect William and Harry by releasing his tell all Diana book this week – claiming he is doing the exact opposite.
Royal Commentator Dickie Arbiter spoke out just an hour after the BBC broadcast a bombshell sit down chat with Earl Spencer, saying his bombshell revelations are helping no one and doing nothing more than widening the expanding gap in the family.
Just an hour after the interview was broadcast on BBC One, the broadcaster took to social media to have his say, writing: “In his 6 September 1997 eulogy in Westminster Abbey, Earl Spencer vowed to protect William and Harry. His current allegations are hardly protecting his nephews nor protecting the memory of his sister 29 years after her tragic death.”
Diana died aged 36 in a 1997 Paris car crash as photographers pursued her on motorbikes, prompting questions around the media’s responsibility in her tragic death.
Harry and Meghan have returned to live in Britain six years after they quit royal duties and moved to the US and in his chat, Earl Spencer doubled down on his claims inot how King Charles acted in the wake of Diana’s death.
Earl Spencer claimed King Charles said “we’ll forget her soon enough” during a row about Diana’s funeral arrangements and the allegations prompted Buckingham Palace to release an unprecedented statement, in which King Charles said he is “mindful” that grief can cloud reason and memory – essentially rubbishing what had been said.
But Earl Spencer was adamant in the chat that he had said those words and vowed: “I am telling the truth.” He also said he was not taking sides between warring brothers Harry and William – and said he would want to be there for them both.
“I’m on my deceased sister’s sons’ side, both of them,” he said. “And if either of them wanted anything then I’d be equally there for them.
“And I never get involved in one camp or the other, except as a benign figure I hope.”
He said there are a “lot of reasons on both sides” why the brothers’ relationship had “got to this stage”.
“I hope one day it’s resolved, but I don’t know all – I certainly don’t know what’s been done in the finer detail and so I would feel intrusive if I got more involved than to say of course a mother would want her two sons to be happy together and love each other,” he said.
“I’m aware of mortality and I wanted to just put things down once and for all that were true. This is not a threat, it’s a fact, I know lots of things about the King which I chose not to include in the book because they were not relevant.”
“I would say that I personally worry about the fifth-in-line to the throne who’s served in the military not having any police protection,” he said.
“As an uncle who’s seen his sister die in very, very preventable circumstances, that I would veer towards protection.”
It would really be beholden on people to learn from Diana’s example. I’m not here to speak for Harry and Meghan, but for anyone who’s being destroyed in this way daily, it must be such a cancerous influence in their life,” Earl Spencer said.