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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points across outlets. Most headlines focused on attributing the claims directly to Earl Spencer's book, using neutral sourcing language such as "claims in book" or "her brother claims in book," which BBC and Sky News both employed. The primary variation across outlets was not ideological framing but rather which specific quote or detail each headline chose to foreground. BBC highlighted Charles saying Diana would be forgotten "soon enough," while Metro and Sky News emphasized the more emotionally vivid descriptions — "elated like a lottery winner" and "giddily elated" respectively — drawn from the same source material. Notably, NeutralNews covered an entirely different angle, focusing on the book being stolen in the Netherlands rather than its contents. These differences reflect editorial selection of detail, not ideological bias.