King Charles Issues Rare Response on Charles Spencer’s Book Claim About Princess Diana

Spencer wrote that the argument started over a debate about Prince William and Prince Harry, then ages 15 and 12, walking behind Diana’s coffin during the funeral procession.

William, now 44, and Harry, now 42, said in the BBC’s 2017 documentary Diana, 7 Days that it was a “group decision” for them to join their mother’s funeral procession, with William saying, “It wasn’t an easy decision, and it was a collective family decision to do that.”

In his 2023 memoir, Spare, the Duke of Sussex wrote more about the decision for them to walk that day, revealing that “several adults were aghast” and that “mummy’s brother, Uncle Charles, raised hell. ‘You can’t make these boys walk behind their mother’s coffin! It’s barbaric.’ “