Piers Morgan Threatens Legal Action Against Princess Diana’s Brother Over Memoir Lies

Legal Action Over Memoir Claims

According to statements made on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Morgan announced that his legal representatives would contact Earl Spencer and his publishers, Penguin Random House, regarding passages in the upcoming book. Morgan stated that the memoir contains fabricated inaccuracies that undermine the author’s credibility as a historian. The primary contention involves an account where Spencer claimed he personally uninvited tabloid editors from attending Princess Diana’s funeral at Westminster Abbey in September 1997. In the book excerpt, Spencer wrote that Morgan snarled with annoyance and hung up the phone after being asked not to attend.

Disputing the 1993 Gym Photographs Timeline

According to Newsweek and Yahoo, the memoir also alleges that Morgan and his Sunday Mirror counterpart published hidden-camera photographs of Princess Diana exercising in a leotard, describing the publication as an intolerable invasion of privacy. Morgan strongly disputed this timeline on his program. He highlighted that November 7, 1993 was when the Daily Mirror printed the photographs—a span of nearly two years before his employment at the publication began. At the time of the gym pictures publication, Morgan was writing a showbiz column for The Sun, the Mirror’s rival publication. Morgan demanded that the claims regarding him and the photographs be removed from the book and called for a donation to be made to the King’s Trust.

Royal Family and Public Reactions

The memoir also includes claims that the then-Prince Charles sounded giddily elated and like a lottery winner following Diana’s death, suggesting the prince believed she would be forgotten. Addressing these assertions, Buckingham Palace released an uncommon statement to NBC News stating that while the institution maintains a policy of not commenting on publications, His Majesty is aware that passing time and the grief of losing a sibling can distort perspective and alter memories. Additionally, Morgan criticized Spencer on social media for hypocrisy, contrasting the author’s condemnation of the tabloid media’s treatment of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with his own publication of damaging claims about King Charles.