Let's be clear about who won this week, because it is not close.
Earl Spencer had everything. Five days of front pages. CBS on Sunday morning. Thirty minutes on BBC One with Laura Kuenssberg. A book out today. He set out to prove that on the morning Diana died, the King was 'giddily elated', like a lottery winner.
He ended the week admitting, on camera, that he 'cannot be sure'. An assumption, from a tone, as a possibility. He told the country he knows 'lots of things' about the King that he chose not to print, and when that was called a threat, he said it was 'just the reality'. Every headline this morning is about the threat. In 2017 he said his Abbey eulogy was not aimed at anyone; last night he called it a 'direct rebuttal' of the King. His own words have done more damage to his case than the Palace ever could.
The King's contribution to all of it was a single sentence about grief and memory. Then he went back to work, in cancer treatment, at seventy-seven. His elder son's contribution was a shinty clubhouse on the Isle of Bute and not one word.
That is the scoreline. A week of talking against one sentence of silence, and the silence won. It always was going to, because the country has watched this family for twenty-nine years and knows exactly who told two boys their mother was dead, who brought her home, who walked, and who raised them.
The King didn't need to answer. Britain answered for him.