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Earl Spencer recently told the BBC that the press’s treatment of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle mirrors how journalists treated his sister, Princess Diana. He described this coverage as having a "cancerous influence," similar to what Diana experienced, which brought her down. In an interview, Spencer also criticized King Charles for allegedly gaslighting him regarding comments made about Diana after her death, calling the palace’s response “astonishingly provocative.”
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-20,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
Earl Charles Spencer told the BBC that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) are experiencing media scrutiny similar to what his late sister, Princess Diana, faced. He warned that people should learn lessons from Diana's experience, given her death at age 36 in a 1997 car crash while being chased by photographers. Spencer noted that articles about both Diana and the Sussexes can be "really unpleasant" and cautioned that such criticism is a "cancerous influence." Harry and Meghan cited the toxic media environment as a reason for stepping back from royal duties and moving to the United States.
Written for “Diana Echoes Harry Meghan Treatment” on 2026-10-05,
grounded in this article and the 9 other(s) covering the same event.
Earl Spencer has said the relationship between the press and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex “echoes” the way the media treated his sister Diana, Princess of Wales.
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media → say → Wales
In an interview with the BBC to be aired on Sunday evening, Spencer described the press’s coverage of Harry and Meghan as having a “cancerous influence”, adding it would be “beholden on people to learn from Diana’s example”.
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it → air → example
He said: “If you look at an article in a tabloid about Diana or the couple that you were mentioning, Harry and Meghan, you know, they can be really, really unpleasant.
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they → say → that
And I think it would be really beholden on people to learn from Diana’s example.
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it → think → example
“I’m not here to speak for Harry and Meghan, but for anyone who’s being destroyed in this way daily, it must be such a cancerous influence in their life.”
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it → ’m → life
He said Diana was “really brought low” by criticism she received from the media, adding it was a pity to see “echoes of that” in the press coverage of Harry and Meghan.
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it → say → Harry
Spencer’s latest comments come after he accused King Charles of gaslighting him following Buckingham Palace’s response to explosive claims that Charles said “we’ll forget her soon enough” after Diana’s death.
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we → come → death
He has made a series of damning claims about the king in a new memoir chronicling Diana’s life that prompted the palace to push back, saying: “The pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason.”
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pain → make → reason
Spencer said: “It was astonishingly provocative and below the belt because it was essentially trying to say I’d lied without the king being able to deny what I’d said.
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I → say → what
I also thought it was a rather poor imitation of the ‘recollections may vary’ quote, which was a much more elegant way of putting things, but in these circumstances entirely out of place.”
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which → think → place
He added that “Diana would be cheering from the rafters at this book”.
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Diana → add → book
In response to the claims made in the memoir, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said on Wednesday: “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 colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss.”
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others → make → loss
In an extract of the BBC interview released on Friday, Spencer said he was telling the truth and described the king’s comments about his sister as “monstrous”.
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he → release → sister
Asked whether he had evidence of the king’s comments, he told the BBC: “I told friends and family straight away, close friends and family, about what had been said, because it was so monstrous.”
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it → ask → friends
The Sussexes, who returned to the UK from the US on 26 August, have long been critical of their treatment by the media, with Harry in 2021 telling Oprah Winfrey the tabloid press had created a “toxic environment”.
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press → return → environment
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