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Jemima Khan and Diana at an event in Pakistan: Posts removed from series
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Jemima Khan, once a close friend of Princess Diana, has explained why she has ended the collaboration with the producers of the Netflix series "The Crown".
In an interview with the Sunday Times, she said that her late friend's story is "not necessarily told as respectfully or compassionately as I had hoped."
According to British media reports, Khan had been asked by the series' creator, Peter Morgan, to cooperate for the fifth season.
This is also about Diana's life in the nineties until her death in 1997 after a car accident in Paris.
In the years before that, Diana and Khan were friends.
In 2019, Morgan approached her about the project and offered her to help write the script.
Khan thought about it for a long time, especially since she never spoke publicly about the years before Diana's death.
Finally she agreed.
"It was really important to me that my girlfriend's last few years were told accurately and compassionately," said Khan.
From September 2020 to February 2021, she participated in the program.
Then it apparently broke: “When our co-authoring contract was not kept and when I realized that this particular story would not necessarily be told as respectfully or compassionately as I had hoped, I asked that all of my contributions be removed from the series «.
According to the British media, Khan was briefly in a relationship with "The Crown" maker Morgan at the beginning of the year.
Not a co-author
A spokesman for the series told the Evening Standard that Khan was never contracted to co-author.
Rather, it was part of a large network of sources that provided background information to the researchers on the program.
Jemima Khan, 47, is a journalist and television producer.
She was married to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, with whom she has two sons.
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