A Documentary About Diana Causes Controversy

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The British private channel Channel Four will broadcast recordings of the late Diana of Wales about her traumatic marriage to Prince Charles, despite protests from family and friends who asked for respect for her memory.

Lady Di speaks openly in the recordings of her childhood, the beginning of her relationship with the heir to the throne before her majestic wedding and his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles, who is currently his wife. Its content will appear in a documentary that the channel will broadcast next Sunday to mark the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of Diana, who died on August 31, 1997 in Paris due to an accident.

The controversial recordings were made by a public speaking teacher who taught him to improve his public speeches. Among the confessions his student makes to him is that he did not have much love in his childhood, that his sex life with Charles was mediocre and that he went to Queen Elizabeth when he was convinced that his husband had a relationship with Parker-Bowles.

To Diana's question of what to do in the face of Charles's infidelity, the monarch responds that her son is "a lost case."

Part of those recordings already appeared in an NBC documentary that aired in 2004, after the US network paid to use them.

Given the controversy that then generated in the United Kingdom, until now British televisions had refused to make them public.

Channel Four defended its decision noting that they are part of "the historical documentation" of the British monarchy.

“We have carefully weighed all the material used in this documentary and, despite the fact that the recordings were made in private, the topics covered are public affairs and provide a unique perspective on Diana's preparations to acquire a public voice. and tell their own story, the network said in a statement.

According to CNN, those responsible for Channel Four admitted that the brother of the deceased, Charles Spencer, has been in contact with them, but did not confirm reports in the British media that he had asked them to respect the privacy of his sister.

Likewise, friends of Diana have publicly requested that the recordings not be released because they consider them a betrayal of the right to privacy.