“CAMILLA DID IT”: Nearly 3 Decades, Charles Spencer Drops Epiphanic Bombshell On His Big Sister Princess Diana, Leaving the King and Queen Consort TE/RR.IFIED.

In the echoing grand library of Althorp House—cradle of the Spencer dynasty and eternal shrine to the late Princess of Wales—a revelation has detonated that rivals the explosive force of Diana’s 1995 Panorama interview. On October 14, 2025, Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer and Diana’s fiercely protective younger brother, unveiled a long-buried cache of private letters and audio recordings in an exclusive sit-down with The Sunday Times. What emerged wasn’t just ink on faded parchment or static-laced tapes; it was a damning indictment of Queen Camilla’s role in the systematic dismantling of Diana’s marriage, psyche, and ultimately, her place in history. “Camilla did it,” Spencer declared, his voice steady but eyes ablaze with the fire of vindication. “She orchestrated the third corner of the triangle—not as unwitting paramour, but as the calculated architect of my sister’s despair.” The words, dropped like a grenade across the Channel from Buckingham Palace, have left King Charles III and his consort “terrified,” palace insiders whisper, of a fresh torrent of scrutiny that could eclipse even the Epstein shadows engulfing Prince Andrew.

The bombshell stems from a trove Spencer inherited upon Diana’s 1997 death: over 200 missives from 1981 to 1996, penned by Diana to confidantes, and seven reel-to-reel tapes captured during clandestine therapy sessions at Kensington Palace. Locked away in Althorp’s climate-controlled vaults for “healing’s sake,” as Spencer explained, they were revisited amid the 28th anniversary of Diana’s passing in August—a date that still draws global vigils and fuels republican fervor. What Spencer discovered, he claims, rewrites the narrative of the Waleses’ doomed union. Far from the “irretrievable breakdown” Charles confessed in his 1994 Dimbleby interview, these artifacts paint Camilla Parker Bowles (now Queen Consort) as the puppeteer, allegedly engineering leaks to the press, manipulating Charles’ affections, and even advising against Diana’s charitable expansions that threatened to eclipse the heir’s profile.

One letter, dated July 1986—mere months after Diana’s celebrated tour of Japan, where she cradled an AIDS patient on live TV—lays bare the intrigue. “Camilla whispers in his ear that my ‘hysteria’ endangers the Firm,” Diana scrawled in looping script, her words smudged by what forensics now confirm as tear stains. “She calls my causes ‘vanity projects’ to Charles, planting doubts like weeds in his garden. Last night, he echoed her: ‘Why must you always steal the light?’ But it’s her light she fears—mine blinds her shadow.” Spencer, poring over the documents with royal archivist Dr. Elena Hargrove, alleges the missive correlates with a leaked Daily Mail story branding Diana’s AIDS work “reckless publicity-seeking,” a smear traced to a Clarence House-adjacent tip line. “This wasn’t coincidence,” Spencer asserted. “Camilla’s network—old polo set friends in Fleet Street—fed the beast to starve Diana’s spirit.”

The tapes, digitized for the first time, amplify the horror. In a 1992 session with therapist Oonagh Shanley-Toft, Diana’s voice—raw, unfiltered—recounts a clandestine confrontation at Highgrove in 1989. “I found the bracelet in his drawer, engraved ‘G&F’ for Gladys and Fred [their pet names]. Confronted her at a hunt ball; she smiled, said, ‘Darling, he’s always been mine—marry the title, not the man.’ She did it, Oonagh. She convinced him I was the intruder, the ‘awkward girl’ unfit for the crown.” Shanley-Toft’s notes, cross-referenced in the archive, corroborate: Diana described Camilla’s “queenly poise” as a weapon, deploying it to isolate her from allies like Tiggy Legge-Bourke, the boys’ nanny later accused of favoritism. Spencer, who once eulogized Diana as a “force for good” at her funeral—implicitly scorning Charles and Camilla—now calls it “epiphanic”: a blinding clarity after decades of suppressed rage. “I protected her memory by silence,” he told the paper. “But truth ferments. Camilla didn’t just bed my brother-in-law; she buried my sister.”

Buckingham Palace, still reeling from Andrew’s DNA debacle and Catherine’s tiara-fueled ascendancy, is in lockdown mode. King Charles, 76 and midway through another chemotherapy cycle, retreated to Birkhall with Camilla on October 15, canceling a scheduled investiture. “He’s terrified—not of the past, but of how it poisons the present,” a Highgrove source revealed. “Diana’s ghost was manageable when contained in Netflix scripts; now it’s in Spencer’s hands, with provenance.” Camilla, 78, whose popularity polls have finally crested 50% amid her literacy campaigns, faces a backlash tsunami. Social media, reignited by #CamillaDidIt (3.4 million posts in 24 hours), dredges up the infamous “three of us” quote, with users dubbing her “the original third wheel—and the axle that broke the cart.” A viral thread by @RoyalTruthSeeker juxtaposes 1980s pap shots of Camilla at polo matches with Diana’s bulimia confessions, captioning: “Not love triangle; sabotage pentagon.”

The timing couldn’t be crueler for the Windsors. Just weeks after Catherine and Charlotte’s Paris Fashion Week dazzle—where the young princess in a mini-Lover’s Knot tiara outshone Meghan’s Balenciaga bid—this Spencer salvo threatens to fracture the “unity” Charles preached in his September regency handover to Catherine. Prince William, Diana’s enduring legacy, is said to be “livid but measured,” channeling fury into private calls with Spencer, whom he views as an avuncular bulwark. “William honors his mother’s voice,” a Kensington aide confided. “But this risks dragging Harry back in—Spare’s sequel nobody wants.” The Duke of Sussex, exiled in Montecito, reposted Spencer’s interview on his Archewell stories with a single emoji: a broken heart. Insiders speculate reconciliation overtures, perhaps a joint Althorp visit for the anniversary, now laced with litigation fears—Camilla’s lawyers are reportedly scanning for defamation angles, though Spencer’s artifacts scream authenticity.

Public pulse? A fever dream of catharsis and chaos. YouGov’s snap poll on October 15 shows 68% of under-35s believing Camilla “destroyed Diana,” a 15-point spike from 2023, with 54% calling for her to “step back” from duties. In Northamptonshire, Althorp’s gates groaned under floral tributes anew, while London’s Kensington Palace saw flash mobs chanting “Camilla Did It.” Globally, U.S. outlets like Vanity Fair frame it as “The Crown’s unscripted finale,” with Oprah Winfrey teasing a special: “Diana’s truths, 28 years on—who’s listening now?” Even in republican hotbeds like Australia, where polls teeter on abolition, commentators note the irony: Camilla’s “slow-burn redemption” arc, from Rottweiler to resilient consort, now risks reversal.

Spencer’s motives? Not malice, he insists, but “moral accounting.” A father of seven, author of A Very Private School (his 2024 memoir on boarding abuse), and custodian of Diana’s £25 million estate, he frames the drop as therapy’s endpoint. “Nearly three decades of silence for her sake; now, epiphany demands daylight.” Yet, echoes of his 1997 funeral speech—vowing to shield William and Harry from “rigid royal ways”—suggest deeper vendetta. Royal biographer Tina Brown, in a blistering New Yorker op-ed, dubs it “Spencer’s scorched-earth swan song,” warning it “terrifies Charles not with facts, but with the finality: Diana’s narrative owns the endgame.”

For Charles and Camilla, holed up in Scottish seclusion, the terror is tangible. Charles, who wept the eve of his 1981 wedding per astrologer Penny Thornton, now faces a requiem for that union’s ghost. Camilla, once the “crow in the cornfield” of Diana’s lore, confronts a legacy laced with malice. Their 2005 marriage, born of divorces and duty’s detours, was meant to heal; instead, Spencer’s cache reopens wounds, questioning if “three in the bed” was ever just metaphor.

As autumn leaves swirl over Althorp’s lake—where Diana rests eternally—this bombshell isn’t closure; it’s combustion. “Camilla did it,” Spencer intoned, a phrase destined for headlines and history books. The King and Queen Consort, terrified sentinels of a fraying firm, must now navigate the fallout: will it fortify Catherine’s star, or fracture the throne anew? In the Spencer-Windsor saga, one truth endures—Diana’s light, dimmed but undimmed, still casts the longest shadow.