King Charles was ‘giddily elated’ after Diana’s death, her brother says

The royal sounded ‘like a lottery winner’, possibly because he felt it meant he was free to marry again, Charles Spencer says in his book

Britain’s King Charles sounded “like a lottery winner” after the death of ⁠his late first wife Diana, ⁠her brother writes in his forthcoming ⁠book, new extracts of which were published on Thursday.

Diana’s brother Charles Spencer said the then-Prince Charles was “giddily elated” in the immediate aftermath of Diana’s death in 1997, possibly because he felt it meant he was freer to marry again, according to passages in the Daily ‌Mail.

Charles on Wednesday took the unusual step of responding to criticism after the first extracts of Spencer’s book were published in the Daily Mail, saying via a spokesman that grief could impact reason, judgment and memory.

There was no new comment from the king on the latest excerpts, which also stated that Diana went to a site of many suicides on Britain’s south coast, but ⁠that her love for her sons, William and Harry, “stopped her from going further”.