Princess Diana’s Brother ABSOLUTELY Despised King Charles, Here’s Why

Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's younger brother, says he has spoken to King Charles on the telephone only twice in his life. In September 2026, he revealed what was said in the second call. It came in the week before Diana's funeral. Spencer had objected to William and Harry walking behind her coffin. In his telling, Charles went ballistic, then hissed that the world would forget her soon enough. Spencer hung up on the future king. The palace did not deny the words. It said grief can colour memory. But for twenty nine years, Spencer told interviewers that Charles had been perfectly polite, and that any feud was overplayed. This documentary follows the two families from the house next door to the Queen at Sandringham to the statement Buckingham Palace issued within an hour of the first extract from Swan Song. It covers a dinner at Althorp in 1977, a stamp of the foot at a funeral in 1992, the forged bank statements Martin Bashir showed Spencer in 1995, and the eulogy that ended with the words "never be extinguished from our minds". Each claim comes with the answer that met it: Tom Bower's sources at Balmoral, Tina Brown's reporting, the words of William and Harry about the walk in 2017, and Spencer's own interviews on CNN in 2002 and 2004. Sources include Earl Spencer's Swan Song and his interviews with the BBC, CBS and Tina Brown, the CNN Larry King transcripts of 2002 and 2004, the full text of the 1997 eulogy, TIME's reporting from inside Westminster Abbey, the Dyson report on the BBC's Panorama interview, Robert Lacey's Battle of Brothers, Richard Kay's account in the Mail on Sunday, Sally Bedell Smith's reporting, and contemporary coverage from AP, NPR and CNN. The background images in this video were created with AI tools solely to illustrate the story. --- Source Material & Copyright Notice Behind the Legacy is a historical documentary channel created for educational, research, and commentary purposes. Visual materials may include archival images, portraits, newspapers, illustrations, and documents from publicly accessible archives, public-domain collections, the Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons, and other open-license sources whenever available. Some copyrighted material may be used in limited form for historical context, criticism, commentary, education, research, or news-style reporting. This use is intended to fall under Fair Use as recognized by Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 107. All materials are presented in a transformative documentary context.