Spencer: What’s Borrowed From Real-Life, and What’s Not, in the New Film About Princess Diana?

These are the real plot points borrowed from history.

in the early nineties, begins with a simple message. Or, depending on how you look at it, a disclaimer: “A fable from a true tragedy.” The director makes it clear from the start that this movie is a work of fiction.

And at many points that’s obvious , as Larraín’s style here is both surrealist and absurdist. At one point, Diana eats a pearl necklace, and at another, the paranoid Princess speaks to the ghost of Anne Boleyn. In telling her story, Larraín intentionally choses an artistic, rather than realistic, narrative.

So, as Spencer opens in theaters this weekend, here’s a breakdown of what’s fact, and what is a figment of the auteur’s imagination.The royals do indeed spend every Christmas at Sandringham, a Jacobean manor in Norfolk. Although very little is known about what, exactly, happens at this private royal retreat, the details that

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