Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl of Spencer, has taken bold legal action to shut down damaging claims about his memoir, Swan Song, Diana, My Sister. He previously admitted a factual error in the book after Piers Morgan criticized the published version.
In a statement on untrue claims about Diana, he said his sister never asked to stay at Althorp that summer because the estate was open to the public. He said that if she had asked, he would have done everything possible to arrange it, and that he never turned her away.
After her marriage breakdown, and in line with police safety advice, he offered her a dozen homes on the Althorp estate and Wormleighton Manor. On a podcast on The Spectator website, editor Michael Gove, with assistant editor Madeline Grant, said people are not entitled to invent how Spencer treated his sister.