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Diana, the late Princess of Wales, has provided real streaming fodder of late.

There was 2021’s Spencer, which landed Kristen Stewart an Oscar nomination, season four of Netflix’s The Crown, and the streamer’s Diana: The Musical, which first debuted on Broadway.

Now there’s the new HBO documentary, The Princess, which opened the virtual Sundance Film Festival and will soon hit theatres.

Following on from the other reimaginings of the royal’s terribly short, but incredibly rich life, the doccie aims to “explore our complicity in Diana’s tragic death”.

It will explore the period from Diana’s 1981 engagement to Prince Charles to her tragic death in 1997.

Rolling Stone called it “the definitive Princess Diana documentary”:

The documentary may reiterate the popular story that Diana was a both a strong woman and a helpless damsel-in-distress, one crushed between centuries-old traditions and contemporary, toxic celebrity culture. But it also asks for accountability, and you can feel a current of anger running just underneath its packaging of yesteryear’s snark and schadenfreude. And as we continue to re-litigate how famous females were treated in the Eighties and Nineties, [director Ed] Perkins’ history of how Di was torn down makes for a hell of an Exhibit A.

The trailer leads with the intrusive media hype that her every move attracted:

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Over to Tatler for more:

As the world’s most photographed woman of her time, it can be assumed that director Ed Perkins had plenty to work with during the project’s production.

Entirely made up of real-time content, from pictures and news clips to audio recordings and interviews with Diana and the Prince of Wales, the retrospective rejects common documentary conventions, such as talking-head interviews and narration.

The Princess is expected to be in cinemas from June 30.

[sources:rollingstone&tatler]