Piers Morgan Threatens Charles Spencer With Legal Action as He Challenges Diana Memoir’s Credibility
Piers Morgan has threatened Charles Spencer with legal action and produced what he says is evidence of a major factual error in the Earl’s new Princess Diana memoir, raising fresh questions about claims contained in the controversial book.
Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister has already caused significant controversy with its recollections about Diana and allegations concerning the then-Prince Charles following her death.
Now Morgan has entered the dispute after discovering passages about himself that he insists contain “fabricated inaccuracies” serious enough to damage Spencer’s credibility.
Addressing the claims on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the broadcaster described the allegations as “all pretty extraordinary stuff” and complained that the book portrayed him in an extremely damaging way.
“I come across in the most despicable manner imaginable,” Morgan said. “There’s just one problem. It’s all bulls–t and very, very easy bulls–t for me to prove it.”
Spencer’s book recounts withdrawing invitations for several tabloid editors from Diana’s funeral, alleging Morgan reacted angrily when informed that he would no longer be attending.
The memoir also connects Morgan to a newspaper controversy involving photographs of Diana, naming him among editors who faced criticism over the media’s treatment of the Princess.
Morgan strongly disputed that account, arguing that the timeline itself proves part of Spencer’s version cannot be correct because the photographs in question appeared before he joined the Daily Mirror.
“In fact, at the time of the gym pictures, I was doing a showbiz column on the Mirror’s arch-rival, The Sun,” Morgan said, arguing he was far removed from responsibility for the publication concerned.
The presenter also challenged Spencer’s broader portrayal of their respective relationships with Diana, claiming that he had actually been speaking to the Princess more frequently than her brother was during the period in question.
Morgan then questioned whether what he described as a basic factual error should lead readers to scrutinise other claims in Spencer’s memoir, including those that have generated headlines about King Charles.
“If Earl Spencer can be so incredibly, defamatorily wrong about such basic facts involving me, well, why should we believe anything else he puts in this book?” Morgan asked.
He followed that challenge with a direct warning to Spencer and his publisher, declaring: “You’ll be hearing, and your publishers, from my lawyers,” while demanding that the disputed material be removed.
Morgan also called for a donation to be made to the King’s Trust over what he described as the damage caused by the alleged falsehood. Spencer has made a series of disputed claims about Charles in his memoir, but Morgan’s challenge does not by itself establish whether those separate recollections are accurate. His threatened legal action nevertheless adds another major dispute over the book’s contents.
