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The British Royal Family have dealt with a fair share of trials, tribulations, and trauma over the years.

The numerous media portrayals of their affairs have only made things that much more challenging.

Pablo Larraín’s highly-anticipated biopic about Princess Diana, featuring the unlikely Kristen Stewart, is no different.

It really is just one more thing for the family, especially Diana’s sons, to deal with. Imagine the constant reminder of your parents’ disastrous marriage and mother’s death?

No wonder Prince Harry packed up and moved with Meghan Markle across the ocean to sunny California.

He might have escaped the problems at home but he will never escape Hollywood.

Neon just released the official teaser trailer for Spencer, starring Stewart as Diana, which makes her the fourth actress in recent history to step into the princess’s shoes onscreen, per Vanity Fair.

Other actresses who have played the late royal include Emma Corrin and Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown, as well as Naomi Watts, who filled Diana’s shoes in 2013’s Diana.

Stewart only has two words in the trailer but it is clear throughout that living a royal life is not as charming as many imagine:

At the trailer’s end, [Sally] Hawkins’s character tells Diana, “They know everything,” to which Stewart delicately replies, “They don’t.”

The message: If you think you know all there is to know about the People’s Princess, think again.

Besides castles, dresses, and exquisitely prepared meals, when Stewart’s Lady Di appears, she always looks “equal parts glamorous and depressed”.

The film unfolds over three days during one of Diana’s final Christmases at the House of Windsor in their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, per The Daily Mail.

At the centre is Diana’s marriage to Prince Charles, which breaks down in the wake of divorce and infidelity rumours:

“There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. Spencer is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.”

Observe:

Let’s also not forget the “harrowing” movie poster of Lady Di crumpled on the floor in a voluminous white ball gown.

It came with the caption reading “every fairy tale ends”:

Every fairy tale ends.
Kristen Stewart is Diana Spencer.
A glimpse at Pablo Larraín’s SPENCER.
In Theaters Nov. 5 pic.twitter.com/EmN1csiMKA

— NEON (@neonrated) August 25, 2021

Spencer will premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month, before hitting theatres on November 5.

[sources:vanityfair&thedailymail]