Skip to the story

Europe / United Kingdom · Culture

Buckingham Palace disputes claims in Earl Spencer's Diana book

Rank
Ran
3d
Updated
15d ago
Final
Outlets
27
Regions
5
Countries
19
Languages
8

+9

Where it travelled

The 19 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

19%26%33%15%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 7%
  • Americas 5 outlets · 2 countries · 19%
  • Asia-Pacific 7 outlets · 7 countries · 26%
  • Europe 9 outlets · 5 countries · 33%
  • Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 15%

The figures

Coverage
27 outlets in 19 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 27 outlets, 3 public-service, 24 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: Ghana, South Africa. Americas 2: Brazil, United States. Asia-Pacific 7: Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Thailand. Europe 5: Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, Sweden, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, German, English, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Serbian, Swedish, Thai.
Timeline
Earliest article Sky News, 16 Sept 2026, 19:23 UTC. First seen 16 Sept 2026, 20:30 UTC. Last seen 20 Sept 2026, 14:46 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Culture. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
12.79, at the end of the last day measured. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by Charles Spencer attacks King Charles in Diana memoir; Earl Spencer criticizes King Charles over Diana's funeral. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
16 Sept 2026 251 4.09 4 3 – – 1.2
17 Sept 2026 41 22.90 23 16 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 44 21.71 25 17 – – 1.3
19 Sept 2026 114 8.70 26 18 – – 1.4
20 Sept 2026 84 12.79 27 19 4 4 1.4 → 2.0

This record as JSON, CC BY 4.0.

How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 16 Sept, 20:30 UTC · Updated 20 Sept, 14:46 UTC

Covered by 27 outlets

Pin outlets you trust with ☆ and they come first in every story.

Africa 2 outlets

  • MyJoyOnline Ghana
  • TimesLIVE South Africa

Americas 5 outlets

  • ABC News United States
  • Associated Press United States
  • CBS News United States
  • G1 Brazil
  • NBC News United States

Asia-Pacific 7 outlets

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • NZ Herald New Zealand
  • Philippine Daily Inquirer Philippines
  • Tempo Indonesia
  • Thairath Thailand
  • The Sydney Morning Herald Australia
  • Times of India India

Europe 9 outlets

  • BBC News United Kingdom
  • Dagens Nyheter Sweden
  • Deutsche Welle Germany
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany
  • LRT Lithuania
  • N1 Serbia
  • Sky News United Kingdom
  • The Guardian United Kingdom
  • The Independent United Kingdom

Middle East 4 outlets

  • Al Modon Lebanon
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates

Loudest reads the world's press every ten minutes and sizes each story by how widely it is covered.

Live map Archive Data Sources Methodology About Privacy & terms