Diana’s Brother Warns ‘Monstrous’ King Charles That Prince Harry Is at Risk of Assassination

Earl Spencer’s declaration that his nephew, Prince Harry, ought to be afforded the protection given senior members of the Royal Family is a new provocation to the Crown that has not gone unnoticed but has been seemingly dismissed.Lord Spencer made his remarks to the BBC as part of a press tour promoting his new memoir, “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,” a tell-all that is reigniting tensions between the Spencers and the Windsors. Earl Spencer’s defense of his nephew could suggest an emerging alliance in opposition to King Charles III and the heir to the throne, William Prince of Wales. The brother of the late Diana raised the specter of assassination to the BBC, noting, “I would say that I personally worry about the fifth in line to the throne who’s served in the military not having any police protection. As an uncle who’s seen his sister die in very, very preventable circumstances, I would veer towards protection.” Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have long insisted that they be permitted taxpayer-funded comprehensive security.The British Home Office, though, has balked at that level of protection ever since the Sussexes stepped back from serving as “working royals” in 2020. As part of the so-called Sandringham Agreement, brokered by Queen Elizabeth II, the Sussexes were freed to pursue their dreams in California and were released from their royal obligations — but they were obligated to yield their “Royal Highness” titles, give up their royal patronages, and relinquish their royal residence. The Home Office cut their security.Prince Harry has long chafed against that security arrangement — and sued to reverse it. In May 2025, he was dealt a final defeat in court. He declared to the BBC that he was “Obviously, pretty gutted about the decision” and added that “my status hasn’t changed — it can’t change. I am who I am, I am part of what I am part of, I can’t escape that.”The Duke of Sussex also reckoned in respect of the Crown that “What I’m struggling to forgive, and what I will probably always struggle to forgive, is that a decision that was made in 2020 that affects my every single day and that is knowingly putting me and my family in harm’s way.” Last week, he pulled his two children out of school after two days following a “discussion with the family’s security team about the practicalities of their current arrangements.”The decision by the Sussexes to return to King Charles’s realm has prompted the board charged with deciding security arrangements — the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, or RAVEC — to reevaluate the security arrangements in place for the family. An influential voice on that board, though, is the chief courtier to King Charles, Sir Clive Alderton, who is so despised by Prince Harry that he is referred to as “the Wasp” in the Sussex memoir, Spare.Earlier this month King Charles released a letter reaffirming the status of the Sussexes as non-working royals whose position is “akin to private citizens with commercial and charitable interests.” The Sussexes declared in a statement that they were “a little surprised” by the letter, which they reportedly viewed only one hour before it was released to the public. The letter mandates that “that there is no change to the current status of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.” Lord Spencer has not been heard from with this force in nearly 30 years. At his sister’s funeral following her death in Paris in 1997, he declared that “of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this — a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.”In a line widely taken to be directed at the House of Windsor, he declared, “I pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men” — Princes William and Harry — “so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned.”Now, though, the Duke of Sussex and the Prince of Wales are so at odds that they have not spoken since the late Queen’s funeral in 2022. Earl Spencer has refused to take sides in that dispute, explaining that “I’m on my deceased sister’s sons’ side, both of them. And if either of them wanted anything then I’d be equally there for them. And I never get involved in one camp or the other, except as a benign figure I hope.”Less benign is Lord Spencer’s account of the king’s behavior following Diana’s death. The late princess’s brother remembers her erstwhile husband as reacting to the news with a “giddily elated” tone that made him sound like a “lottery winner.” Earl Spencer also reports that the king remarked, “We’ll forget her soon enough,” after Diana’s death. Her brother calls that interaction “so monstrous.”Buckingham Palace has responded in a statement that “While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment, and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss.”

Diana’s Brother Warns ‘Monstrous’ King Charles That Prince Harry Is at Risk of Assassination

Diana’s Brother Warns ‘Monstrous’ King Charles That Prince Harry Is at Risk of Assassination

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