Lady Diana Spencer would have turned 61 on July 1, 2022. On August 31, it will be 25 years since she died in a Paris hospital as a result of a car accident. Boom for films about the "Queen of Hearts".
"The Princess" - Theatrical release: June 30, 2022
The documentary by Ed Perkins is a single collage of original footage and is completely without experts and without speakers. Nobody classifies what we see or connects the snippets with each other. But it still works, even for people who don't know the story yet. Diana's accident forms the narrative bracket, mirrored with reactions from amateur recordings. The only comments come from TV reports from back then. In between, much that attentive Diana followers already know: the shy kindergarten teacher, who will still appear introverted at Charles' side. The longest wedding train ever, the birth of Prince William, whom she lets suck on her finger in front of the camera, although the rest of the royals look "not amused" from the laundry. The legendary quote “There were three of us in this marriage. So it was a bit tight.” And always, right from the start, Camilla Parker Bowles walks through the frame. Wasn't noticed by many at the time. When Charles went back to play polo immediately after Harry was born, Camilla Parker Bowles was in the audience.
Charles is visibly sobered by Diana's growing popularity, even sourly asking the photographers at one point, "Am I in the way?". Diana gets it double and triple, for example when Prince Charles "quipped" on camera at a joint press conference in Australia in 1983: "I've come to the conclusion that it would have been much easier to have two wives - one for each Street side."
RTL+ documentary on the 25th anniversary of the death of Lady Diana Spencer
RTL+ is also bringing out a major documentary - on the anniversary of Lady Di's death on August 31, 2022. "The battle of the princesses - who can crack the Diana code?" TV broadcast on hits the mark into the present. How did she become the world's first and most successful influencer to date? What can their daughters-in-law learn from their experiences and also from their mistakes? And with how much calculation are “princess careers” made here? After this documentary, we will see Diana, Kate and Meghan through different eyes.
You can also see the Diana documentary on RTL from August 31, 2022+
RTL+ has more documentaries for Diana fans at the start
Diana: The interview that shook the monarchy
Lady Di 1995 about the worst moments in her life, about a marriage in which the three of us were pretty tight.
Diana – her last summer
The last three months of Diana's life alongside Dodi Al-Fayed. First-hand reports, for example from Diana's bodyguard.
Diana – a mother's love
How Lady Diana wanted to raise her sons away from the limelight and see herself as a mother.
Princess Diana: Love. Makes. Legend
Three decades of Diana: The biography tells of her start into a new life in the 1970s, her influence on pop culture and her social commitment - the eventful and short life of Diana Spencer.
Several feature films have also de alt with the life of Lady Diana and drawn her fictional version:
"Spencer" starring Kristen Stewart
The rather petite Kristen Stewart, who slips into the role of the 1.78 meter tall "Queen of Hearts" with shoulder pads, drove to the shoot in the trunk of a car. People are still very interested in Lady Di. What is most worth seeing about the coolly artificial "Spencer" is the idiosyncratic portrayal of Kristen Stewart, who was completely ignored at the 2022 Oscars but was nominated for the German Film Prize. The film dissects the quirks of the royals in an exemplary manner over three days in 1991: Christmas hell at the Windsors. And Camilla Parker Bowles? She's not at Sandringham Castle, you only see her once from afar in the church - just like in the television pictures from back then. Charles and Di's marriage still feels "crowded" to viewers.
Series "The Crown" with Emma Corrin or soon Elizabeth Debicki
If you like it in more detail, you will find it in "The Crown". Diana fans had to wait a long time for Lady Di to enter the series. The 1.73 meter tall Briton Emma Corrin plays the very young Diana in season 4 with fresh charm. Even Prince Harry commented on James Corden about "The Crown": "I feel a lot more comfortable with 'The Crown' than with the stories that are written about my family, my wife or myself." Even though it is some people seem to have a hard time distinguishing between fiction and fact. When the fourth season was released in 2020, British Minister of Education Oliver Dowden even tried to get the series to be broadcast with a “fictional warning”. Season 5 is due out in November 2022, then with Elizabeth Debicki as Diana. She reprises the role in season six.
"Diana" starring Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts plays Diana in 2013's Diana. You won't find the other royals here, even William and Harry can only be seen from afar. Instead, director Oliver Hirschbiegel wants to show us a private, almost unglamorous Diana and her relationship with heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan, the man before Dodi Al-Fayed.
Stream "Diana" here on RTL+
Lady Di has appeared on screen before
Other Diana actresses include Jeanna De Waal, who sings and dances the title character in "Diana - A True Musical Story" or Bonnie Soper, who in the flashbacks of "Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal" is the mother of the prince plays. But even during Diana's lifetime, her story was fictionally prepared for TV screens or screens, for example with Serena Scott Thomas or Catherine Oxenberg in the title role. And Madonna has also played Lady Diana before - but only in a cameo appearance on "Saturday Night Live" in 1985.
