The sequel to
Diana: A Mysterious Icon
, a documentary that met worldwide success in 2017, will be released in 2022 to mark the 25th anniversary of the princess's death.
The American director Tom Jennings explains to the
Daily Mail how he is
preparing his documentary from six hours of unpublished recordings.
These interviews were conducted by Diana's biographer, Andrew Morton, as part of the writing of his 1992 book,
Diana: Her True Story
, which revealed the disastrous underside of her marriage to Prince Charles.
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“There are seven hours of recordings that Diana made for Morton
,” says Tom Jennings.
In our two hour film, we only used one hour of recording. ”
The documentary should be released in 2022, a date that owes nothing to chance.
"Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of Diana's death, and also - it's a coincidence - the 30th anniversary of the publication of Andrew Morton's book
," says the director.
There will be renewed interest in Diana, especially as the fifth season of
The Crown
will be released. ”
This new season of the original Netflix creation will be largely devoted to the Princess of Wales.
The plot should in particular linger on the year 1992,
"annus horribilis"
of the queen marked by the fire of Windsor Castle, the divorce of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips, and the release, precisely, of the book
Diana: its true story.
A documentary in the service of The Crown?
This new part of the documentary will perhaps be used to justify the choices of the screenwriters of
The Crown
, accused at the release of the fourth season, in 2020, of having sided with Diana and of having been unfriendly towards the Royal family.
Diana: a mysterious icon,
which was broadcast for the first time in 2017, was rebroadcast last year by Netflix, in order, according to some, to justify certain scenes criticized in its series.
The first part of the documentary, which had sparked a lively controversy when it was released, brings together archive images of the royal family, while Diana speaks about her visit to the Windsors. She tells, for example, that she threw herself down the stairs while she was pregnant with William, in the hope of making a mowing bed. She also reveals that Prince Charles hoped their second son Harry was a girl. Without giving more details on its contents, Tom Jennings suggests that the continuation of the documentary will upset the royal family at least as much as the first part.
