Piers Morgan blasts Harry's uncle for 'latets lie' after apology

In his latest blow to Harry's uncle, Piers Morgan published legal documents as he continued his action against Earl Charles Spencer, slamming Princess Daiana's brother for his another "lie".

The row between British Tv presenter and Spencer over the Princess Diana memoir "Swan Song" took a turn on Wednesday, when the broadcaster shared legal correspondence online.

He blasted the Earl for allegedly misleading the people, making the private letters public after Spencer told an audience at a New York book event on Tuesday that he was not facing legal action.

In conversation withTina Brown, the Earl, who acknowledged making an error last week and apologised, flatly denied that Morgan was suing him.

However, Morgan insisted the publication of the letters was justified, stating on X: "Given Earl Spencer has denied I'm taking legal action, I have decided the legal correspondence should be published to correct his latest lie."

The pair have been embroiled in an increasingly bitter public dispute since Earl Spencer's book hit shelves on September 22.

The memoir, subtitled Diana, My Sister, contained claims about Piers Morgan that he says are both false and defamatory.

Among them were allegations linking him to the publication of intrusive photographs of the late Princess in the Daily Mirror in 1993, when he was in fact working at The Sun and had not yet joined the rival tabloid.

Morgan, however, dismissed the offer as wholly inadequate. "As things stand, he's made no offer to do anything other than to amend things for a second edition," he told The Telegraph's Daily T podcast. 

Morgan said: "That's just not good enough."

He further alleged that the royal family were "spitting blood" over the book, which he claimed they believed had been written to "destroy" the King's reputation.

The legal correspondence, exchanged between Morgan's firm Schillings and Penguin's representatives at Wiggin, revealed that on the day of publication Morgan's lawyers demanded immediate action over what they called "false, defamatory and indefensible" statements.

They also pointed out that Mr Morgan himself had promoted the error and Spencer's subsequent apology "very extensively on his own YouTube show and throughout the national and international media".

Schillings responded by intensifying its demands, arguing that the book's claims "falsely associate" Morgan with "one of the most notorious invasions of Diana's privacy and imply both responsibility for and lack of remorse about that conduct."

The firm contended that the allegations amounted to an assault on Morgan's professional reputation and integrity, and that once the factual mistake had been conceded, continuing to sell the book for profit was unjustifiable.

Earl Spencer's publishers have shown no sign of backing down. Penguin has no intention of pulling the memoir from shelves, and the Earl maintains his position that he has not been sued.