Princess Diana’s brother claims Charles sounded “like a lottery winner” after she died

Updated on: September 18, 2026 / 9:49 AM EDT / CBS News

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.

"I said in the book that that might have been it, yeah," he told CBS News.

Buckingham Palace pushed back earlier this week after the first allegation from…

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