Princess Diana’s confessions of a crumbling marriage to be broadcast for first time
Secret tapes made by Diana, Princess of Wales as she recorded the unravelling of her marriage will be broadcast for the first time.
The recordings, which run for five hours in total, were smuggled out of Kensington Palace to Andrew Morton, Diana’s biographer, in 1991.
They include intimate revelations, including thoughts on her battle with bulimia and the affair between the now King and Queen, and formed the basis of Morton’s 1992 book, Diana: Her True Story.
The author revealed the Princess’s involvement in his research following her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Less than an hour of the tapes has been heard publicly in the three decades since.
Now, production company Love Monday, working with Morton and Dr James Colthurst, the Princess’s close friend, who recorded the tapes and delivered them to Morton, has secured full access to the recordings.
A three-part documentary series, called Diana: The Unheard Truth, will be broadcast in August 2027 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of her death. Love Monday said the “revelatory” series would “change public perception of Diana forever”.
The tapes also include the late Princess’s thoughts on her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The production company said: “Through the tapes, we come to know a resilient, perceptive, and relatable young woman, finding herself in the brightest of global spotlights, and navigating the challenges with grace, self-awareness, and determination. We hear her infectious humour and twinkling laughter, as she reveals the truth about life inside the most famous family in the world.
“But most importantly we hear her dreams for a future that could have been; a new chapter in which Charles goes off into the sunset with Camilla, leaving Diana free to carve her own path. Viewers will be astounded to hear how accurate she was in predicting the future.”
The company said the series would “restore authorship of one of the most scrutinised lives in modern history”. Rather than frame Diana as a victim of her circumstances, her words are said to present a portrait of a woman “navigating pressure, redefining her role, and moving forward with conviction”.
Mr Morton and Dr Colthurst, as well as Michael O’Mara, a publisher, will feature in the documentary, revealing the risks the Princess took, and the scrutiny they all endured around the book’s publication. Dr Colthurst has previously described how he arrived at Kensington Palace by bike before leaving with the tapes.
He has said: “I pedalled in with a briefcase in the bicycle basket. Initially, I sat and I read out the questions, but that was too slow for Diana.
“She snatched the questions away from me and then clipped the microphone on to herself, and the tape recorder was on and away she went. She sometimes interrupted with a lot of laughter as she said things. And so on. And then the tape recorder back in the briefcase and out again.”
The Telegraph
Secret tapes made by Diana, Princess of Wales as she recorded the unravelling of her marriage will be broadcast for the first time.
The recordings, which run for five hours in total, were smuggled out of Kensington Palace to Andrew Morton, Diana’s biographer, in 1991.
They include intimate revelations, including thoughts on her battle with bulimia and the affair between the now King and Queen, and formed the basis of Morton’s 1992 book, Diana: Her True Story.
The author revealed the Princess’s involvement in his research following her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Less than an hour of the tapes has been heard publicly in the three decades since.
Now, production company Love Monday, working with Morton and Dr James Colthurst, the Princess’s close friend, who recorded the tapes and delivered them to Morton, has secured full access to the recordings.
A three-part documentary series, called Diana: The Unheard Truth, will be broadcast in August 2027 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of her death. Love Monday said the “revelatory” series would “change public perception of Diana forever”.
The tapes also include the late Princess’s thoughts on her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The production company said: “Through the tapes, we come to know a resilient, perceptive, and relatable young woman, finding herself in the brightest of global spotlights, and navigating the challenges with grace, self-awareness, and determination. We hear her infectious humour and twinkling laughter, as she reveals the truth about life inside the most famous family in the world.
“But most importantly we hear her dreams for a future that could have been; a new chapter in which Charles goes off into the sunset with Camilla, leaving Diana free to carve her own path. Viewers will be astounded to hear how accurate she was in predicting the future.”
The company said the series would “restore authorship of one of the most scrutinised lives in modern history”. Rather than frame Diana as a victim of her circumstances, her words are said to present a portrait of a woman “navigating pressure, redefining her role, and moving forward with conviction”.
Mr Morton and Dr Colthurst, as well as Michael O’Mara, a publisher, will feature in the documentary, revealing the risks the Princess took, and the scrutiny they all endured around the book’s publication. Dr Colthurst has previously described how he arrived at Kensington Palace by bike before leaving with the tapes.
He has said: “I pedalled in with a briefcase in the bicycle basket. Initially, I sat and I read out the questions, but that was too slow for Diana.
“She snatched the questions away from me and then clipped the microphone on to herself, and the tape recorder was on and away she went. She sometimes interrupted with a lot of laughter as she said things. And so on. And then the tape recorder back in the briefcase and out again.”
The Telegraph
Secret tapes made by Diana, Princess of Wales as she recorded the unravelling of her marriage will be broadcast for the first time.
The recordings, which run for five hours in total, were smuggled out of Kensington Palace to Andrew Morton, Diana’s biographer, in 1991.
They include intimate revelations, including thoughts on her battle with bulimia and the affair between the now King and Queen, and formed the basis of Morton’s 1992 book, Diana: Her True Story.
The author revealed the Princess’s involvement in his research following her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Less than an hour of the tapes has been heard publicly in the three decades since.
Now, production company Love Monday, working with Morton and Dr James Colthurst, the Princess’s close friend, who recorded the tapes and delivered them to Morton, has secured full access to the recordings.
A three-part documentary series, called Diana: The Unheard Truth, will be broadcast in August 2027 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of her death. Love Monday said the “revelatory” series would “change public perception of Diana forever”.
The tapes also include the late Princess’s thoughts on her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The production company said: “Through the tapes, we come to know a resilient, perceptive, and relatable young woman, finding herself in the brightest of global spotlights, and navigating the challenges with grace, self-awareness, and determination. We hear her infectious humour and twinkling laughter, as she reveals the truth about life inside the most famous family in the world.
“But most importantly we hear her dreams for a future that could have been; a new chapter in which Charles goes off into the sunset with Camilla, leaving Diana free to carve her own path. Viewers will be astounded to hear how accurate she was in predicting the future.”
The company said the series would “restore authorship of one of the most scrutinised lives in modern history”. Rather than frame Diana as a victim of her circumstances, her words are said to present a portrait of a woman “navigating pressure, redefining her role, and moving forward with conviction”.
Mr Morton and Dr Colthurst, as well as Michael O’Mara, a publisher, will feature in the documentary, revealing the risks the Princess took, and the scrutiny they all endured around the book’s publication. Dr Colthurst has previously described how he arrived at Kensington Palace by bike before leaving with the tapes.
He has said: “I pedalled in with a briefcase in the bicycle basket. Initially, I sat and I read out the questions, but that was too slow for Diana.
“She snatched the questions away from me and then clipped the microphone on to herself, and the tape recorder was on and away she went. She sometimes interrupted with a lot of laughter as she said things. And so on. And then the tape recorder back in the briefcase and out again.”
The Telegraph
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