Diana documentary for 30th anniversary of her death.

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There have been rumours about a 30th anniversary documentary for some time but it is now looking more likely according to this report.
Seriously , what else is there to say about the woman ?
It seems so distasteful that H is - again- using his late mother to make money .
Any reconciliation with the RF will be stopped in its tracks if this goes ahead .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15026663/Harry-Meghan-Princess-Diana-documentary-Netflix.html

Here's a novel thought: how about neither of them sink to such a level?

TBH I'd expect no better from the smirking Burrell - though it does amuse me to wonder what he knows that led to him being kept out of the witness box - but Harry can hardly criticise his blabbing then do the same himself and expect to be taken seriously

Trouble is he does and then dislikes being criticised for it, which is tough really

Diana should be left to rest in peace. There can be little of substance now that hasn't already been said and dissected ad nauseam about her and her tragic, untimely death.

I think that holds true no matter who is doing the talking - even Harry, as her youngest child. The most any of the royals should be doing is making their own private commemorations, not trumpeting all over Netflix and other media in this undignified way.

I like Harry and do think he is struggling, but this crosses a line and if it goes ahead then it cannot be uncrossed.

If Harry does this, he’ll also open the floodgates to other grifters making money out of Diana’s death anniversary, which he’ll then be furious about.

Sarah Ferguson can do a ‘My dear friend’ retrospective documentary and a ‘Miserable wives of Windsor’ book. Every former staff member can sell their memories to the tabloids. Lorraine Kelly can have a ‘Death of Diana special’ running daily for a week and it’ll be fodder for bloggers and stand-up comedians all bloody summer and autumn.

William’s preference for a private family service makes much more (dignified) sense.

Would the media be interested in tittle tattle from the rest of them though, @TheAutumnCrow?

I can see they'd welcome Harry making a spectacle of himself yet again because he's the "in thing" for journos, but am not sure about the others when there's only so much mileage in Diana reminiscenses now

Someone mentioned on another thread that a salacious Diana thing could have been Netflix's price for the "first look" deal and that does seem worryingly credible, but otherwise there seems little point in concern unless this report turns out to be true

@Puzzledandpissedoff Maybe. I think if the tittle tattle from staff includes stuff about shagging, then yes.

Just off the top of my head I can think of six men, and a few other possibles. She was becoming unpopular with many people because of it. And then she died.

It was very much let lie after her death, and is best left there. What’s Harry going to do? Rake it all up? Ignore it? Defend it? Whatever he does, he allows others to justify their own versions of and opinions on Diana’s behaviour.

Exactly. It seems like a shit stirring rumour. If this doesnt happen in 2 years time it wont matter. The outrage would have created some traffic and publicity ( not sure who for)

What’s Harry going to do? Rake it all up? Ignore it? Defend it? Whatever he does, he allows others to justify their own versions of and opinions on Diana’s behaviour

We don't know if he's going to do anything yet, @TheAutumnCrow, but I agree completely that this could be the effect

As you said, the whole thing is much better left

Well if I were Netflix I’d make it part of the deal

I’m guessing it will be about her humanitarian work

You can imagine the pics of the two of them in minefields now..

Diana did some good work but don’t we all know about it ?
I just can’t imagine what else there is to say .

I wonder how nasty he will be about Charles and Camilla? Bridges not just burned but blown up.

I remember waking up to the news that Princess Diana had been killed in a car crash in Paris. It was a shocking event to have probably the most photographed woman in the world at that time die at a relatively young age in such a mundane way. Since then there have been countless documentaries and books written about her or the manner in which she died. I doubt Harry and Meghan have anything to say that hasn't already been said. But they'll do it anyway because it will get them back in the public eye and earn them some money. And Harry wonders why William has no time for him🤐

Her butler will know more about her than her 12 year old son. He would have seen her, warts and all.

But no, I don’t want to see her dug up and nattered about again.

Move on, Harry, It’s time to let her go.

Above all, it’s all just SO long ago now. It’s history- as far away from modern 20 somethings as the Suez Crisis was when I was that age. The people who remember her have heard it all a thousand times and those who don’t, don’t care.

A pointless, self-indulgent and embarrassing idea.

It will just be another woe is me from the pathetic little manchild and no doubt him spouting on how Meghan is the living embodiment of Diana with soft focus Meghan and Diana montages 🙄

The question is would Netflix allow Harry to have full say over what is included? I could imagine Harry wanting one type of documentary and Netflix wanting quite another (which would presumably be more commercial).

Would they simply be commissioning it from him or have an input into the content?

I remember waking up to the news that Princess Diana had been killed in a car crash in Paris

It's the (relatively) modern version of "I remember where I was when President Kennedy was killed", @AcquadiP ... and yes, I'm old enough to remember that too

I hope he doesn’t but wouldn’t surprise me - so crass. Feel sorry for PW he will have no control to be able to stop it.

He is unlikely to want anything negative about Diana in it. I do hope he doesn't try to reignite the conspiracy theories about her death. As others have said it could lead to all sorts of things being discussed again, including her affairs.

Diana had two sons. William is likely to be incredibly upset whatever Harry does and if this does go ahead then any reconciliation will be dead in the water.

I also doubt Charles will be very happy.

Totally agree.

I think the central themes will be:
a. My mother was a saint
b. The evil media killed her
c. History is repeating itself with my wife

What will be interesting (loosely speaking) to see is whether he repeats his vitriol around Charles, Camilla, or his accusation of the palace being complicit in her death or involved in some kind of cover up.

Netflix I imagine would be pushing for that as that’s what will grab attention and headlines, the rest of it is a tedious well trodden path. But if Harry goes there it will be the death knell for any reconciliation with the RF. It just depends if he has learned any sort of lesson over the last 5 years, that he can’t just have a huge tantrum and throw out whatever spiteful and cruel accusations he wants and then expect to be welcomed back with open arms. Although I have my doubts, given the appalling things he said during the BBC interview earlier this year.

Would the whole lot of them, let that woman rest in peace.

M grew up visiting production sets and then tried (and failed) to make it in Hollywood before gaining some small success in "Torontowood", so IMHO, she should have known that Netflix would claim its pound of flesh. As a person who has severed familial ties, perhaps the impact of the Diana documentary on A&L's familial ties carries less weight that making cash off their dead grandmother.

H has no clue about the real world but knew that his family was a selling point, hence the rage about being denied HIHO...i.e. access to living family to shill. So, H has turned to mummy's corpse in a ghoulish move to make money with zero consideration of W or Diana's siblings all of whom are alive. I would not be surprised to see Diana 30-year, 40-year and 50-year anniversary "documentaries" that are short on fact and long on the narrative of the moment. Dining out on mummy's corpse ad infinitum, as ever.

It's such a bizarre thing to do - it will dig up all the lovers etc again even the false allegation about Charles not being his father. It doesn't show any respect at all for his mother. Some things are best left in the past where they belong. Years will have added different layers to the myth of Diana and it could result in not quite the tribute he thinks it will be. That's not what Netflix will be looking for and then there are the comments, the discussions and possibly new investigations by people not as biased as Harry.

It just depends if he has learned any sort of lesson over the last 5 years, that he can’t just have a huge tantrum and throw out whatever spiteful and cruel accusations he wants and then expect to be welcomed back with open arms

Is there anything to suggest Harry's learned any sort of lesson over 5 years, @elessar?

I don't know him of course, but if there is I must have missed it

https://www.tatler.com/. This article has a summary of Diana's male friends.

Maybe Harry doesn't realise that it won't just be a documentary. It will be articles, reviews, think pieces, every single person who passed Diana in the street weighing in with their opinion. It gives permission for a whole new cycle of comment and counter comment, and for what? Money? Finally proving he is the best son?