Prince Charles Is Reportedly Furious About Upcoming Princess Diana Book 

Prince Charles Is Reportedly Furious About Upcoming Princess Diana Book

Sunday Mirror report, Prince Charles is irate about an upcoming book, written by the Queen’s former press secretary, that purports to spill many details about his relationship with Diana. The former press secretary in question is Dickie Arbiter, 73, who served as press secretary for 12 years and is said to know “intimate details about Charles’s marriage to Diana.” His book, titled On Duty with the Queen, is due to be published in October.

According to the Mirror, Charles is “furious,” as he believes “this man was a trusted friend,” and feels he is being betrayed. According to the source, “It is just a case of a man who he thought was a friend and who could be trusted cashing in on the misery of that time. It is disloyal.” Arbiter has said the book—which will also detail the dissolutions of the Prince Andrew-Sarah Ferguson and Princess Anne-Mark Philips marriages—is “not just a memoir” of his time serving in the palace but is rather “a story of a life, my life and it’s been quite an extraordinary one.” Arbiter—who was said to enjoy a very close relationship with the Queen (at one point, the two even “did the washing up together”)—worked for the palace when Charles and Diana’s divorce took place, as well as when Diana died. The Mirror says he will spend time in the book “[delving] into the dark days” of Diana’s “isolation,” and the “humiliation” she felt when Charles took up with Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Arbiter—who goes by the Twitter handle RoyalDickie (which we will refrain from commentating on)—has been promoting the book via his account, recently tweeting that he was “doing a big publicity shoot” for the book.

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