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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Princess Diana's brother said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex should be given official security.
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Duke → say → security
Earl Spencer said the media now treated Harry and Meghan the same way it treated Diana in the years leading up to her death.
His upcoming book about Princess Diana is highly critical of King Charles.
Princess Diana's brother says Prince Harry and his wife Meghan should be given official security because the media now treats them much the same way as it treated his sister in the years leading up to her death.
Princess Diana was 36 when she was killed in a 1997 Paris car crash while being pursued by photographers on motorbikes.
Her death sparked an outpouring of grief and a reckoning over whether the media, which splashed details of Princess Diana's life across front pages for years, bore some responsibility.
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which → say → responsibility
Earl Spencer has been speaking to the media in the lead-up to the publication of his book about his sister, which is critical of her former husband, the now-King Charles.
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which → speak → husband
"From a security aspect, as an uncle who's seen his sister die in very, very preventable circumstances, I would veer towards protection," Earl Spencer said of Harry and Meghan when speaking to the BBC.
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Spencer → see → BBC
He said the tabloid treatment of Diana, and Harry and Meghan, could be "really, really unpleasant", and that it was "beholden on people" to learn from that experience.
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it → say → experience
Spencer's book makes international headlines
Earl Spencer's book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, has made headlines around the world because it includes accusations about Charles making incendiary comments in the days after the princess's death.
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Charles → make → death
In the book, Earl Spencer accuses Diana's former husband, the then-prince of Wales, of sounding "giddily elated" in the hours after her death.
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Spencer → accuse → death
Earl Spence also writes that an angry Charles had told him that the world would forget Diana soon enough.
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world → write → Diana
In a rare move, the palace has hit back by saying the king is "mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgement and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss".
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others → hit → loss
Asked by the BBC how he could prove the conversations had taken place, Earl Spencer said he had included a specific line in his much-lauded eulogy at Diana's funeral to counter the comments, ending it by saying she would "never be extinguished from our minds".
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she → ask → minds
Earl Spencer said he had written the book, ahead of the 30th anniversary of her death, to celebrate her life.
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he → say → life
He said their childhood never had a dull moment.
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childhood → say → moment
"We both have ADHD," he said.
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he → have → ADHD
"She was never diagnosed, but clearly we did."
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we → diagnose → ?
The publication of the book and the surprise return of Harry and Meghan to Britain after six years living in the US pose a challenge for King Charles, who is still undergoing treatment for cancer.
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who → live → cancer
Princess Diana's family accused the royals of showing a lack of support or care towards her before her death, a charge that was repeated by Harry and Meghan about their personal experience before they quit royal duties in 2020 to move abroad.
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they → accuse → 2020
Prince Harry has criticised the British government's decision to strip him and his family of automatic police protection afforded to other senior royals since he quit royal duties.
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he → criticise → duties
Following a long-running legal battle, that is now under review.
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that → follow → review
Earl Spencer, who recently hosted the couple, has serialised his book through The Daily Mail, just months after Prince Harry lost an expensive privacy lawsuit against the tabloid.
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Harry → host → tabloid
Earl Spencer said his revelations about King Charles would not come as a surprise to Prince Harry or his older brother, heir-to-the-throne Prince William, and he said while he knew many more details about the king, he had chosen not to include them.
Reuters
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