Buckingham Palace issues a rare and unusually forceful denial after claims made by the brother of the late Princess Diana that King Charles III said his first wife would soon be forgotten in the days after her death. ↧ King Charles issues fiery response to Princess Diana’s brother ov... Charles Spencer claims that the then-prince said his first wife would soon be forgotten in the days after her death. Buckingham Palace said that grief can impact reason, judgment and memory.