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Princess Diana's brother claims Charles sounded "like a lottery winner" after she died
London — The brother of the late Princess Diana claims in his upcoming book that King Charles III, then Prince Charles, "sounded giddily elated — like a lottery winner," right after his ex-wife died in a Paris car crash in 1997.
It is the latest bombshell allegation to emerge from "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister," the book by Charles Spencer, Diana's younger brother, set to hit shelves next week.
In an interview airing this weekend on "CBS Sunday Morning," Spencer explains his explosive allegation that a year after the royal couple's divorce, and with the nation in mourning just after Diana's death at the age of just 36, Charles seemed upbeat.
"Obviously I'm not justifying or criticizing," he told CBS News. "I'm just reporting that's the fact."
Spencer said he believed the then-Prince of Wales' attitude could have been due to him finally feeling free to pursue Camilla, who he later married, and who is now known as Queen Camilla.
Buckingham Palace pushed back earlier this week after the first allegation from Spencer's book emerged: a claim that Charles had told him days before Diana's funeral that "we'll forget her soon enough."
In a statement unusual in its force for the staid institution, the palace said that while the monarch wouldn't comment directly on a book, he "is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgement and colour memory, even many years after such a loss."
CBS News royal contributor Royya Nikkhah said Thursday that the royal family was in for "a very tricky few days," predicting that Spencer's claims about what the king said after Diana died would be "just the beginning of a serialization that will go on … and we know there are going to be some pretty sensational claims."
Spencer also claims Charles told Diana he didn't love her before their fairy-tale wedding in 1981, and that Diana contemplated suicide more than once.