What we know about the real-life events that inspired the latest Princess Diana movie
Photo: NEON Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s intimate imagining of three excruciating days in Princess Diana’s life, calls itself “a fable from a true story.” Set during a Christmas holiday that finds Diana on frosty terms with the royal family, it follows her desperate attempts to survive a life ruled by the stifling confines of the royal family.
The main impetus behind the separation was Charles’s relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, his first love, whom the royal family reportedly thought wasn’t virginal enough for him to marry. According to biographers, Charles and Camilla began their affair in 1979, suspending it two years later when he and Diana married but resuming it at some point in the mid-’80s. The affair tormented Diana, who famously said that her marriage was “a bit crowded” due to there being “three of us.
Diana spent the royal Christmas celebration near her childhood home on the Sandringham estate. The movie takes place during Christmas at Sandringham House, a royal residence in Norfolk where the Queen and her family have spent the holiday for years. It was a location Diana knew well already — she was actually raised on the wider Sandringham estate until she was 14, in a house called the Park House that belonged to her father.
Though Diana returned to Sandringham for Christmas throughout her separation with Charles for the sake of their sons, reports have said that she continued to find the holidays painful and left as soon as she could manage.
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