Earl Spencer Denounced as Hypocrite For Profiteering from Diana’s Death
Earl Spencer has been denounced as a hypocrite after reporters at the Sun surfaced a 1998 interview in which he vowed he would never make money from his sister’s death.

Earl Spencer has been denounced as a hypocrite after reporters at the Sun surfaced a 1998 interview in which he vowed he would never make money from his sister’s death.
Earl Spencer has been denounced as a hypocrite after reporters at the Sun surfaced a 1998 interview in which he vowed he would never make money from his sister’s death.
In the documentary, Diana: My Sister, The Princess, broadcast a year after the Paris car crash that killed the Princess of Wales, the earl said: “Can you imagine anybody making a profit out of their brother or sister’s death? I mean it’s so low it’s inconceivable … I’ll never profit from Diana’s death.”
The remarks have resurfaced in the Sun days before the publication of his new book about Diana, Swan Song, which comes out next week. The memoir is due to be translated into a dozen languages.
The most sensational passages so far released concern the then Prince Charles’ alleged “contempt” for Diana in the days after her death. Spencer claims that when he objected to William and Harry, then 15 and 12, walking behind their mother’s coffin, Charles snapped at him: “Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough!” Spencer writes that the remark revealed Charles’ “pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death.”
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