Diana's inner circle on Spencer: 'She'd be horrified at the way she's portrayed now'

Doesn’t Diana deserve to be portrayed as far more than someone who was too scared to go down to dinner with the in-laws?

The search for the real Diana: The Princess of Wales in France, 1994; right, Kristen Stewart's take on Diana in Spencer, 2021
The search for the real Diana: The Princess of Wales in France, 1994; right, Kristen Stewart's take on Diana in Spencer, 2021 Credit: Shutterstock / Komplizen Film

In a 1985 Vanity Fair article, the journalist Tina Brown called Princess Diana ‘the mouse that roared’. The Princess, she wrote, had transformed from ‘the shy introvert unable to cope with public life’ who married Prince Charles in 1981, to ‘the star of the world’s stage’. ...

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