King Charles and Prince William’s Frustration Deepens as Expert Points to Spencer Betrayal
King Charles and Prince William are reportedly with Charles Spencer for different reasons, with a royal commentator claiming the Prince of Wales feels an additional sense of betrayal because of a promise his uncle made following Princess Diana’s death.
Spencer’s new memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, has reignited scrutiny of some of the Royal Family’s most painful history after Diana’s brother made a series of disputed claims involving Charles and events surrounding her death.
Royal commentator Kinsey Schofield has now offered her assessment of the reaction inside the King’s and Prince of Wales’s households, suggesting both are unhappy but for different reasons.
“What I am hearing concerning the reaction around both households is frustration and anger, but for slightly different reasons,” Schofield told Fox News Digital.
For Charles, Schofield believes the central issue is the way Spencer’s allegations have once again placed the King’s character and his relationship with Diana under intense scrutiny nearly three decades after her death.
“For the king, I think there is genuine anger at what amounts to an attack on his character almost 30 years after Diana’s death,” she said.
However, Schofield noted that Charles has spent decades facing criticism over his marriage to Diana and the circumstances surrounding the breakdown of their relationship.
“Charles has also lived with being cast as the villain in the Diana story for decades,” she continued. “Unfortunately, being portrayed as the bad guy in somebody else’s version of this story is not new territory for him.”
William’s reaction, according to Schofield, could be more complicated because Spencer is not simply an author making allegations about the monarchy he is Diana’s brother and William’s maternal uncle.
“There is an additional sense of betrayal,” Schofield claimed, pointing to Spencer’s famous speech at Diana’s 1997 funeral, when he spoke about her “blood family” helping protect William and Harry.
Schofield argued that William could also view Spencer’s latest claims through the responsibilities awaiting him as heir. William is Charles’s son, but he is also expected eventually to inherit leadership of the institution now facing renewed criticism.
She therefore questioned whether reopening disputed private conversations from almost 30 years ago ultimately serves William and Harry, particularly when the claims involve their parents and some of the most traumatic events of their childhood.
Spencer, however, has stood firmly behind his account and insisted he is telling the truth. He has also maintained that his memoir is about Diana rather than an attempt to attack King Charles.
Neither William nor Kensington Palace has publicly confirmed Schofield’s description of his private reaction. But with Spencer refusing to retreat from his central claims, the memoir continues to reopen difficult questions for both Charles and William, while putting the relationship between Diana’s brother and the family she left behind under renewed scrutiny.
