The top seven bombshell claims from Earl Spencer’s book so far

In his highly anticipated memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, Earl Spencer has made bombshell allegations about King Charles’ conduct around his ex-wife Princess Diana up to and following her death.

Revelations from the book, featured in The Daily Mail, have focused on the King’s behaviour, from statements he made to Diana before their marriage to comments he made to the Earl before her funeral.

In response to the claims made in the memoir, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson previously 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.”

Earl Spencer gave an interview to the BBC ahead of the book’s Tuesday publication, in which he insisted everything he said was true, amid backlash.

Here are the latest bombshell allegations made in the memoir.

Charles acted like a ‘lottery winner’ in hours after Diana’s death

King Charles allegedly acted like a “lottery winner” in the hours after Princess Diana’s death, her brother Earl Spencer has claimed in his explosive book.

Earl Spencer accused the then-Prince of Wales of appearing “giddily elated” on the phone, shortly after his former wife had been killed in a car crash in Paris.

One passage read: “Unlike my other callers, who were stunned, barely able to articulate their condolences and offers of help, he sounded giddily elated – like a lottery winner, I remember thinking at the time.

“He let me know he had informed William and Harry of their mother’s death, first thing that morning, in their bedrooms at Balmoral.

“It all sounded strangely matter-of-fact, given the enormity of the disaster.

“Looking back now, I suspect the prince’s 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.”

‘We’ll forget her soon enough’

The latest serialisation of the Earl’s book was released alongside a teaser clip of an interview he gave to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, in which he insists everything he has said is true - including his claim the King told him “we’ll forget her soon enough” after Diana’s death.

Speaking about an alleged row over Diana’s funeral arrangements involving her sons, the earl said: “(The King) went ballistic, would be the right term, and started really going for my family as a whole, about their sense of duty, not being adequate enough, and ranted for a while, I have no idea how long, but it was a significant period, and I just listened.

“And then he stopped, and I thought, ‘Oh now he’s going to pull himself together and say something more appropriate’.

“And then he said, ‘We’ll forget her soon enough’.”

Asked whether he has “evidence” of the King’s comments, the earl told the BBC: “I told friends and family straight away, close friends and family, about what had been said, because it was so monstrous.”

He added: “I’m telling the truth.”

After Diana’s death, there was ‘a lack of obvious care’ for Prince Harry

In other passages of the book, Earl Spencer spoke of his concern for Prince Harry.

He wrote: “My chief memory of that train journey is of being concerned at the lack of obvious care for Harry, as he decompressed from the ghastliness of the morning.

“He needed Diana’s hugs, of course, and they would forever be denied him. But instead of calm and nurture, he was allowed to spin out of control.

“I have often looked back, reckoning that a more caring hand at such points as this would have helped him enormously in the future. Instead, he seemed so very alone in his despair and torment”.

The Queen’s offer to restore her honorifics posthumously

The Earl wrote he rejected the late Queen’s “well-meaning” gesture to restore Diana’s HRH title posthumously as it felt like a “consolation award”. He claimed his sister was “dreadfully hurt” by the “petty and vindictive” decision to remove her title, and just hours after her funeral she offered to restore it.

“I felt that I knew in my bones how she would view this posthumous award,” he writes. “That's very kind of the Queen, of course. But what's the point, Robert? Now? I mean – Diana's dead.”

He said that just hours after his eulogy at Diana’s funeral, the late Queen’s private secretary Robert Fellowes beckoned me to follow him into a quiet corner of the carriage.

“I have just received a call from Her Majesty… and she would like to offer Diana her HRH title back,” he wrote Mr Fellowes as saying.

While the Earl later wondered if he was right to reject the award, he felt “the title should never have been removed during her life, in which case it would not have been necessary to offer it to her in death.”

Queen reacted ‘tetchily’ to news of fatal crash

Earl Spencer further claimed Elizabeth reacted “tetchily” to news of his sister having been in a car accident.

He said: “When the Queen had heard the first news of Diana’s being in a traffic accident, she had asked tetchily, ‘What is she up to now?’

“This, before the seriousness of it all became clear.”

Diana suspected Charles had ‘nighttime tryst’ with Camilla on royal train during their courtship

Princess Diana had suspected King Charles of having a secret tryst with Camilla Parker-Bowles on the royal train, just months before their wedding, her brother’s memoir claims.

Earl Spencer recalls the scandal in 1980 when Diana and the then-Prince of Wales had begun their relationship, with Charles accused of smuggling a blonde woman onto the train for a “rendezvous”.

He wrote: “The Sunday Mirror ran a dramatic front page expose in November 1980. In what became known as the ‘Royal Train Scandal’ the paper claimed it had been tipped off by an impeccable source (a police officer, it transpired) that the Royal Train had pulled into sidings in Wiltshire for a secret assignation.

“Prince Charles was the only member of his family on the train when a blonde woman had been spotted getting on board. She was known to have stayed with him on the train for several hours.

“The thrust of the exclusive was that Charles had, disgracefully, used the publicly funded vehicle for a tryst with Diana.”

However, he said that Diana had expressed being “shocked” by the article given that she was not the woman in question, with Buckingham Palace issuing a statement to say the allegation against her was a “total fabrication”.

“As it was not Diana, then who was the blonde?”, Earl Spencer wrote.

“After her marriage took the direction it did, Diana became convinced that she must have been Camilla Parker-Bowles - particularly as the railway siding was just 19 miles from Camilla’s home.”

Princess Diana showed ‘key ADHD symptoms’ as a child

“Diana had some of the key symptoms associated with ADHD,” Earl Spencer wrote.

Her kindergarten teacher, he said, noticed that “her span of concentration in any one activity is short”, and that she found it “particularly difficult to focus during lessons involving passive learning”.

“When bored, Diana would unconsciously get up from her desk, and also had a habit of chipping in to finish other people’s sentences,” he added.

ADHD, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is a neuro-developmental disorder that begins in childhood and is characterised by persistent difficulties with attention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity that can affect everyday life, including education and social functioning, according to the NHS.

Symptoms can include being easily distracted, struggling to concentrate or follow instructions, restlessness, and interrupting others.