A groundbreaking documentary series will air previously unheard recordings made by Princess Diana as her marriage to the then-Prince Charles collapsed.
Production company Love Monday has obtained complete access to the secret tapes, working alongside biographer Andrew Morton and Dr James Colthurst, the royal’s close confidant who originally captured the recordings.
The three-part series, titled Diana: The Unheard Truth, is scheduled for broadcast in August 2027, marking three decades since her fatal car accident in Paris.
According to the production company, the “revelatory” programme will fundamentally alter how the public perceives Diana.
Diana secretly recorded the material in 1991, with the tapes subsequently smuggled out of Kensington Palace and delivered to Mr Morton.
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Mr Morton first disclosed the Princess’s direct involvement in his research only after her death in 1997.
The recordings span five hours in total, though less than sixty minutes have ever been made public in the three decades since their creation.
Diana secretly recorded the material in 1991, with the tapes subsequently smuggled out of Kensington Palace and delivered to Mr Morton.
The content proved deeply personal, with the Princess discussing her struggle with bulimia and addressing the relationship between the now King and Queen.
A groundbreaking documentary series will air previously unheard recordings made by Princess Diana as her marriage to the then-Prince Charles collapsed.
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These recordings provided the foundation for Mr Morton’s explosive 1992 publication, Diana: Her True Story.
The tapes additionally contain Diana’s reflections on Prince William and Prince Harry, as well as her thoughts regarding Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Love Monday described the documentary as presenting “a resilient, perceptive, and relatable young woman, finding herself in the brightest of global spotlights, and navigating the challenges with grace, self-awareness, and determination.”
The company stated that audiences will hear Diana’s “infectious humour and twinkling laughter” as she discusses life within the Royal Family.
Perhaps most striking are her visions for what lay ahead. “But most importantly we hear her dreams for a future that could have been; a new chapter in which Charles goes off into the sunset with Camilla, leaving Diana free to carve her own path,” the production company said. “Viewers will be astounded to hear how accurate she was in predicting the future.”
These recordings provided the foundation for Mr Morton’s explosive 1992 publication, Diana: Her True Story.
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The series aims to “restore authorship” of Diana’s story, portraying her not as a victim but as someone moving forward with conviction.
Mr Morton and Dr Colthurst will appear in the documentary alongside publisher Michael O’Mara, discussing the dangers the Princess faced and the intense scrutiny surrounding the book’s release.
Dr Colthurst has previously recounted his covert method of collecting the recordings from Kensington Palace.
“I pedalled in with a briefcase in the bicycle basket. Initially, I sat and I read out the questions, but that was too slow for Diana,” he said.
“She snatched the questions away from me and then clipped the microphone on to herself, and the tape recorder was on and away she went. She sometimes interrupted with a lot of laughter as she said things. And so on. And then the tape recorder back in the briefcase and out again.”