Season five of 'The Crown' dramatizes how Andrew Morton's biography of the princess came to be.
at the time the book was published, Buckingham Palace tried to discredit Morton, saying he was a"self-promoting hack" and that Diana was unbalanced. However, three of Diana's friends went public as corroborating sources: her brother Charles Althorp; her closest friend Carolyn Bartholomew; and another loyal friend, actor James Gilbey. For the rest of the princess's life, both she and Morton denied her involvement in the book-writing process.
As for the public response, the book was initially boycotted and banned from several major bookstores under the assumption that it was all lies. Eventually the public accepted it as truth, and the book is still widely read decades later.After the Princess of Wales' untimely death, Morton revealed the truth about the book, publicly admitting that she recorded tapes as source material.
"I was keen to talk to the Princess directly, but this was simply out of the question. At 6ft 4in tall and as a writer known to Palace staff, I’d hardly be inconspicuous," Morton told the outlet."So I interviewed her by proxy — giving my questions to James Colthurst [the pair's mutual friend], who then conducted six taped interviews with her in her sitting room at Kensington Palace.
The author also described the extent of his and Diana's working relationship; he claims that before she agreed to the book, she tested him by dropping bits of information that he would turn into news stories. He also told there was a robbery during the year he was working on the book, where"[his] office was burgled and files rifled through," and that following the burglary, Diana had her sitting room swept for unseen listening devices.
"The Diana I knew enjoyed interacting with people," he wrote."She had an extraordinary ability to pitch her conversation and tempo at precisely the right level and timing for whoever she met, whatever their age, and whether the occasion was formal or informal. It came naturally to her and undoubtedly formed part of her charisma."interview, he said that Diana was"enormously enthusiastic to have her story out there, she knew exactly what she was doing.
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