Charles Spencer reveals what Diana told him about Charles before the divorce: “It was shocking”

Charles Spencer has shared more details about one of the most sensational accounts included in his new book about his sister, Princess Diana.

Spencer recently spoke with journalist Katie Couric about his new memoir, “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister”, where he recounted the final months of Diana’s life, as well as his relationship with his nephews, Prince William and Prince Harry.

During the conversation, Spencer told of an episode from the period when Diana was preparing to divorce the then Prince Charles.

According to him, Diana had invited him to lunch to tell him that her marriage had come to an end. But during that conversation, she had said a sentence which, according to Spencer, had taken him aback.

“My husband is in love with his manservant,” he recalled his sister’s words.

Spencer said that he and Diana did not go into that statement any further, as the main focus of the conversation was the divorce.

“We didn’t take that conversation any further, because the main news was: ‘I’m getting divorced’. But I remember what she said, because it was something shocking,” he recounted.

During the interview, Katie Couric asked whether Diana had implied that it was a man.

“I believe there are also female servants, but usually it would be a man,” Spencer replied.

Couric then asked whether this statement was linked to Charles’s relationship at the time with Camilla Parker Bowles.

“So it was the manservant and Camilla? I’m just trying to understand,” she asked him.

Spencer was careful in his reply.

“All I can do is tell what she said. And that’s it. We didn’t really explore that part, but it was a very big thing to say,” he said.

The new account has also brought back into attention the old speculations about the private life of the then Prince Charles. In 2003, claims circulated about an alleged incident involving a member of the royal staff. At that time, a former employee of the royal family obtained a court order to stop the publication of an article that he considered defamatory.

Charles’s private secretary at that time, Sir Michael Peat, had denied the claims, describing them as “completely untrue and without any basis”.

Meanwhile, Spencer admitted that he had not fully understood how unhappy Diana was in her marriage until the publication of Andrew Morton’s book, “Diana: Her True Story”, in 1992.

The book contained details of her marital difficulties and mental health problems. It later became known that Diana had secretly collaborated with the author.

“I say with regret that I was perhaps too busy living my own life. I think Diana spoke more about the marriage problems with our mother and sisters than with her younger brother,” Spencer recounted.