Charles Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother, has won a court battle to preserve his sister’s legacy.

The Earl, 57, revealed Thursday that he had won a court victory against a false allegation in The Times newspaper that he had denied Diana a house after the collapse of her marriage to Prince Charles

The publication said, under the headline “It’s too simple to blame everything on Bashir,” that the earl failed to safeguard the princess from Martin Bashir. The BBC Panorama reporter was recently discovered to have used “deceitful methods” to obtain his infamous 1995 interview with the monarch.

In its retraction, the Times wrote, “We are happy to report that having considered his sister’s safety, and in line with police advice, the Earl offered the Princess of Wales a number of properties.” This included “Wormleighton Manor, the Spencer family’s original ancestral home.”

“It was wrong to suggest he had refused to help his sister or had failed to protect her from Martin Bashir and concealed evidence of the latter’s deception. We did not intend to suggest that the Earl was to blame for his sister’s death. We apologise to the Earl and have agreed to pay his costs as well as make a payment to him which he will donate to charity.”

According to People magazine, the story erroneously suggested that Spencer’s failure to safeguard Diana was partially to blame for her untimely death in 1997 at the age of 36 from injuries suffered in a Paris automobile accident.

“Today, for the third time, the Law has compelled a ‘publication to apologise for lying about me “depriving Diana of a house,” the Earl tweeted about the May 22 correction.

Spencer provided a link to the newspaper’s “Corrections and Clarifications” section, which said that the story “wrongly stated that Earl Spencer had refused to assist Diana, Princess of Wales, with the offer of a house after the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles.”

Charles Spencer became an ardent champion for the preservation of her legacy in global history in the years after her death. “One of the reasons I wanted to talk now is because I think after 20 years, someone shifts from being a contemporary person to a person of history actually. And Diana deserves a place in history ,” he said in a previous interview. “I think that it’s important for people who are under 35, who probably won’t remember her at all, to remember that this is a special person. Not just a beautiful one.”

Some Twitter users confessed they never questioned the story and apologized to Spencer for “believing in the lies.”

The Earl previously accepted undisclosed libel damages from Associated Newspapers in 2018 for a similar allegation in the Daily Mail, which said that he behaved in a “unbrotherly, heartless and callous way” toward Diana after her divorce from Charles.

According to the source, court hearings revealed that Spencer had rejected Diana’s request to use The Garden House cottage on his Althorp estate, although this was mainly due to a member of staff’s need for the house.