‘The nation had lost its mind’: the extraordinary new documentary about the death of Princess Diana

The team behind new film, The Princess, explain why the royal family possess all the vital ingredients to make them the perfect cinematic subjectsOnly a genius of longform plotting could have planned the sting in the tail of the royal 2022.

In the rolling melodrama of the British monarchy, the platinum jubilee was always slated for this year, gratitude splashed across the Daily Express.

But now the mood will darken.

So it is that 70 years of the Queen segues directly into 25 since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

In Macbeth, the ghost haunted the feast.

Here she returns with the pink gin hangovers barely faded.

On with the show.A film will mark the occasion: The Princess, a much buzzed-about new documentary.

It also follows a celebration of the Queen, the fond bio-doc Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts.

That was the last movie directed by the late, highly regarded Roger Michell.

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