Diana Her New Life

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But even when, by January 1992, Buckingham Palace figured out that she was, in some way, cooperating with Morton, she continued. She used to ring up very excited if there had been coverage on TV and radio, delighted that she had received praise or even acknowledgement for her thoughts. It gave her a real sense of empowerment and achievement that an audience actually listened to what she had to say rather than just judged her clothes or her hairstyle. Inside the palace she was treated with kindly condescension, seen as an attractive adornment to her questing husband.

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The disclaimer added by Netflix reads, "Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatisation tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign. She hid the fact that she’d enjoyed a long love affair with Major James Hewitt from 1986 until 1991. Nevertheless, as we were informed by a leading libel lawyer, under strict British law, the fact that you know something to be true does not allow you to say it.

Episode two of The Crown sees the former Princess of Wales – played by The Great Gatsby's Elizabeth Debicki – secretly recording audio tapes for Andrew Morton, a journalist writing about the royal's life. During the year that Diana was being secretly interviewed, my office was burgled and files rifled through — but nothing of consequence, apart from a camera, was stolen.

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After some discussion she agreed to supply the Spencer family photograph albums, which contained numerous delightful portraits of the growing Diana, many taken by her late father, Earl Spencer.For my part Diana was interviewed by proxy, James Colthurst the perfect agent to undertake this delicate and, as it turned out, historic mission.

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While she was not able to fully articulate it, Diana had a humanitarian vision for herself that transcended the dull, dutiful round of traditional royal engagements.

For the most part, however, Elizabeth’s self-discipline means she was able to control her story, a boon to her long reign but frustrating to no end for muckraking journalists. These billets-doux — passionate, loving and full of suppressed longing — left absolutely no doubt that Diana’s suspicions were correct. Morton wrote his 1992 bestselling book with the cooperation of the Princess of Wales, who sent him audio recordings so that he could tell her story. We became friendly, enjoying games of squash in the St Thomas’ courts before sitting down to large lunches at a nearby Italian restaurant. The go-between taking the tapes from Diana to Morton was her friend James Colthurst (Oliver Chris), who was approached by the author in the first instance.