Royal family news live: Prince Harry silent over Earl Spencer’s book during first public outing since UK return

Prince Harry was seen for the first time in public since returning to the UK when he attended the inaugural Invictus Spirit Awards in London.

As he attended the event, after the King emphasised he was no longer a working member of the royal family, he said little of the bombshell revelations in his uncle’s book.

The Duke of Sussex has remained close to Earl Spencer as his relationship with the Windsors has grown strained.

The King looks set to endure a third day of controversy as the war of words between Buckingham Palace and Earl Spencer, the brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, continues.

In the latest extract from Earl Spencer’s book serialised in the Daily Mail, Diana’s brother claimed that the late Queen Elizabeth II considered restoring his sister’s Her Royal Highness title, which she lost when she divorced Charles.

It comes after a dispute blew up between the King and Earl Spencer, who claimed the then-prince told him, “rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough”, days after Diana’s death in 1997.

Earl Spencer further claimed in his memoir of his sister that the King sounded “giddily elated… like a lottery winner” when he rang the earl following the princess’ death.

Princess Diana tried to break off her engagement to Prince Charles after finding a bracelet that he had bought for Camilla, Earl Spencer has claimed in his memoir.

The princess had been seen in tears as she said goodbye to Charles as he left for official business, he writes, adding that newspapers believed it was “the pain of a lovestruck innocent being parted from her fiancé”.

Spencer adds: “The truth was very different. Diana was completely at sea, having found a bracelet that Prince Charles had bought for Camilla.

“A month or so after that, she became so concerned she even tried to break off their engagement. “

The book also claims that Charles told Diana that he did not love her on the eve of their wedding.

“Only much later would I discover that, as she confided to a close friend, her husband-­to-­be had told her the previous day that she needed to know he was very happy to marry her, but he was not actually in love with her,” Spencer wrote.

“Diana had to absorb that hammer blow while also feeling certain that Prince Charles was entering their marriage with his heart elsewhere.”