Kensington Palace and Prince Charles would no doubt discover, and attempt to squash, the project quickly. Morton was a known and-at six feet four with glasses-a conspicuous reporter. Since Colthurst is a frequent visitor to Kensington Palace, no one suspects a thing.Ī major problem? How to conduct the interviews. She records her answers on tape, and Colthurst returns them to Morton. Morton provides him with questions, which he, in turn, passes on to the princess. Secretly, Colthurst agrees to be an intermediary between the two. “But I don’t want to be responsible for starting a war.” “I’d love to have a book out there so everyone understands how difficult it’s been,” Debicki’s Diana says to her friend James Colthurst when he tells the princess that a journalist named Andrew Morton is writing a book. Leaving Charles means potentially sacrificing not only her role as an altruistic public servant but her sons: As heirs to the throne, they’d have to remain behind in England if Diana were to move anywhere else. The press follows her every move-so much so that Diana even fears that her home at Kensington Palace might be bugged. (A note for the reader: spoilers are to follow.) She’s miserable in her marriage to Prince Charles, who is in love with Camilla Parker Bowles. My thanks for their co-operation are therefore all the more heartfelt and sincere.In The Crown Season 5, the second episode finds Elizabeth Debicki’s Princess Diana in a dilemma. Like Diana, they spoke with honesty and frankness in spite of the fact it meant laying aside the ingrained habits of discretion and loyalty which proximity to royalty invariably engenders. "The story is based on lengthy, tape-recorded interviews with Diana, supplemented by the testimony of her family and friends. "This biography is unique in that the story contained in its pages would never have appeared had it not been for the wholehearted co-operation of Diana, the late Princess of Wales," Morton writes in the acknowledgements of the most recent edition. Yet, when she tragically died five years later, Morton re-issued the book as Diana: Her True Story-in Her Own Words, acknowledging his collaboration with the Princess of Wales to tell her story. At the time, Morton shared with the press that the three main sources he used were Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, her close friend and Prince Harry's godmother, Carolyn Bartholomew, and James Gilbey, who was another close friend (and rumored lover) of Diana's.
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