Buckingham Palace's unprecedented statement on behalf of King Charles may have set off a series of events that the royal family cannot afford at this point. The royals have still not recovered from the damage Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has done to the monarchy's image, and the family drama with the Sussexes is also not helping the cause.
There was no early copy of Swan Song: Diana, My Sister sent to the Palace; hence, an excerpt detailing a heated call between the then-Prince Charles and Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, was revealed. Talking about whether Princes William and Harry, then 15 and 12, would walk behind their mother's casket during the funeral procession, the father of two "continued his stream of anger" and later added that the world would forget about Diana "soon enough."
The Palace stated, noting that the King is "mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss." British broadcaster Jacob Rees-Mogg posed the question of whether Charles Spencer is following his nephew Prince Harry as "somebody who wishes to wash dirty linen in public?"
When Diana passed, the royals, including Elizabeth II, became deeply unpopular at the time, and "there was a practical worry that the gates of Buckingham Palace could be stormed." Despite years of PR work to rebuild the reputations of Charles and Camilla together, a bitter revelation from the painful past could ignite a fire that may be very tough to put out.