Is Charles Spencer LYING? What does NARCISSISM Look Like? Uncle Supports Prince Harry Security Row
In this episode of Reading Royals, Kinsey Schofield sits down with co-host and body language expert Scott Rouse to dive into Earl Spencer’s explosive new memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, and the extraordinary war of words it has sparked with Buckingham Palace over his claims about King Charles and the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death. Kinsey examines the complicated history between Diana and her brother, including a revealing 1996 letter published by former royal butler Paul Burrell in which Spencer described himself as a “peripheral part” of Diana’s life and addressed her mental health in language she reportedly found deeply upsetting. Nearly 30 years after Diana’s death, why is Spencer choosing this moment to tell these stories, and how does the private correspondence from Diana’s lifetime compare with his public image today as his sister’s fierce defender? Then Scott puts Spencer’s own interviews under the body-language microscope. The pair examine his baseline behavior, blink rate, posture, cadence, eye contact, illustrators, and signs of tension before analyzing his emphatic declaration that he would “never profit from Diana’s death.” Does his nonverbal behavior remain congruent with his words when the conversation turns to money? Scott looks for baseline shifts, cognitive load, pacifying behaviors, lip compression, gaze aversion, and micro expressions, while explaining why no single behavior can prove deception. Kinsey and Scott also examine Spencer’s comments comparing Harry and Meghan’s treatment to Diana’s, his incendiary allegation about what King Charles supposedly said following Diana’s death, and his insistence that publishing the book is motivated not by money, but by duty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
