PIERS MORGAN DECLARES WAR ON EARL SPENCER — ‘IT’S ALL BULLS**T’ AS TV STAR TAKES LEGAL ACTION OVER DIANA BOOK CLAIMS

Piers Morgan has launched legal action against Earl Charles Spencer, accusing him and his publishers of publishing what he calls “demonstrable lies” about him in Spencer’s new book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister.

The broadcaster hit back after Spencer claimed he personally called newspaper editors to uninvite them from Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997 — including Morgan, who was editor of the Daily Mirror at the time.

According to Spencer’s account, Morgan allegedly “snarled with annoyance” before hanging up after being told he was no longer welcome at the funeral.

Spencer also suggested Morgan may have felt “guilt” over the Sunday Mirror publishing photographs of Diana wearing a leotard while working out at a gym four years earlier.

Morgan has now fiercely disputed the account, announcing on X: “BREAKING: I am taking legal action against Earl Spencer and his publishers over demonstrable lies he has written about me in his new book.”

Appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored, he went even further.

“Well, this is all pretty extraordinary stuff, isn’t it? And very damning, particularly about me,” Morgan said. “I come across in the most despicable manner imaginable. There’s just one problem. It’s all bullst and very, very easy bullst for me to prove it.”

MORGAN POINTS TO A BASIC TIMELINE

Morgan’s central objection concerns when the Sunday Mirror published the photographs of Diana.

He said they appeared in November 1993 — two years before he began working at the Daily Mirror.

That timeline, Morgan argued, directly undermines Spencer’s account of his alleged reaction and the suggestion that he was responsible for the publication.

“My question though is this, if Earl Spencer can be so incredibly, defamatorily wrong about such basic facts involving me, well, why should we believe anything else he puts in this book?” he said.

The dispute now places one of the book’s most personal claims under a legal spotlight, with Morgan saying he intends to challenge what he regards as serious inaccuracies about his role in the events surrounding Diana’s funeral.

SPENCER’S BOOK HAS ALREADY SPARKED A ROYAL ROW

The Morgan dispute comes as Spencer’s book has triggered a much wider controversy over his claims about the Royal Family.

Among the most explosive allegations are Spencer’s account of a conversation with King Charles after Diana’s death, in which he claims the monarch said, “we’ll forget her soon enough.”

Buckingham Palace pushed back with a statement addressing the wider claims, while Spencer accused Charles of “gaslighting” him.

Spencer has also claimed that Charles sounded “giddily elated… like a lottery winner” when they spoke by phone shortly after Diana was killed in Paris in 1997.

Morgan’s legal threat now adds another highly personal confrontation to the growing fallout surrounding Swan Song — with his dispute focused on one question he says can be tested against a simple matter of dates.