King Charles ‘sounded giddily elated’ after Princess Diana’s death, brother Earl Spencer claims in new book

The West Australian Madeline Cove

18 Sept 2026 07:58 AEST Summary

From the report

A startling new allegation about King Charles’ reaction to Princess Diana’s death has emerged almost 30 years later.

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Indicators

Niral Score 6.1 mundaneloaded

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Sentiment -0.2 hostilefavourable Sourcing 71 unattributednamed sources Mood 16 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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The West Australian King Charles ‘sounded giddily elated’ after Princess Diana’s death, brother Earl Spencer claims in new book plain
ABC News Charles 'giddily elated' on night Diana was killed, her brother claims plain
The Age ‘Like a lottery winner’: Charles ‘elated’ after Diana’s death, her brother’s new book claims plain

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
The West Australianas they published this story	6.1	1	71	-0.2	16
ABC News	10.3	8	77	-0.8	26.9

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ABC News Charles 'giddily elated' on night Diana was killed, her brother claims Niral 10.3 political 0 The Age ‘Like a lottery winner’: Charles ‘elated’ after Diana’s death, her brother’s new book claims Niral 4.4 political 0 Brisbane Times ‘Like a lottery winner’: Charles ‘elated’ after Diana’s death, her brother’s new book claims Niral 4.4 political 0 WAtoday ‘Like a lottery winner’: Charles ‘elated’ after Diana’s death, her brother’s new book claims Niral 4.4 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Like a lottery winner’: Charles ‘elated’ after Diana’s death, her brother’s new book claims Niral 5.3 political 0