What happened in this episode?
Piers Morgan devotes the bulk of the episode to attacking Earl Spencer’s forthcoming book about Princess Diana and the Royal Family, focusing on claims Morgan says are demonstrably false about his own role in publishing covert photographs of Diana in the early 1990s. Morgan cites dates he says show he was not at the Daily Mirror when the images were published, and says he is instructing lawyers to contact Spencer and publisher Penguin to seek removal of the passage and a donation to The King’s Trust.
A studio panel with Royals Uncensored contributors Katie Nicholl and Joe Elvin, plus former royal aide Grant Harrold, disputes Spencer’s portrayal of King Charles’s conduct after Diana’s death, calling key anecdotes implausible and questioning the book’s evidential basis. Harrold adds a first-person account that the then Prince of Wales directed him to log and photograph Diana’s belongings for Princes William and Harry. Later, royal biographer Tom Bower says he previously interviewed people present at Balmoral and claims they described Charles as overwhelmed by grief, urging Diana’s sister Jane Fellowes to address Spencer’s account.
The programme then pivots to US media and politics. Morgan introduces claims of a rare joint response by major US networks to White House restrictions, interviewing Bill O’Reilly, who predicts Trump would likely lose in federal court over media bans while arguing that corporate news outlets suppress stories and marginalise conservative voices.
The closing minutes include a brief self-promotional appeal to subscribe, which is not editorial content.
