EXCLUSIVE: The hugely anticipated documentary series with unheard audio of Princess Diana is heading to Prime Video in the UK.
The streamer has scooped the UK and Ireland rights to the series, which it will launch as Diana: Her Secret Confessions. The three-parter’s original title is Diana Unheard, and it is being sold internationally with that moniker. Cineflix Rights is across distribution.
The series has created a stir ahead of its premiere because the producers have secured access to hours of tapes that the Princess recorded in conversation with her friend James Colthurst in 1991. The tapes, which Diana and Colthurst recorded in secret, were used in Andrew Morton’s explosive 1992 book ‘Diana: Her True Story’, which rocked the Royal Family and wider British establishment.
Excerpts have been heard before, notably in a 2017 Nat Geo doc about the princess, but Love Monday TV, which produced the series, worked with Colthurst, Morton and ‘Diana: Her True Story’ publisher Michael O’Mara to gain access to them in their entirety, about five hours of audio in all.
Viewers will hear Diana speaking about her relationship with her husband, now King Charles III, as well as his wife, the now Queen Camilla. She also talks about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, as well as her sons and family.
Speaking about the series, Love Monday TV’s Kerene Barefield previously told Deadline the female-led team at the producer wanted to change the narrative around Diana, almost three decades after her death.
In the wake of the Prime Video deal, she said: “Diana, Princess of Wales is often portrayed as a victim of her circumstances, with the narrative around her even today still being written and argued about by powerful men. By centring our series on hours of intimate recordings Diana made herself, Diana: Her Secret Confessions reclaims and reframes her own story, in her own words.
“Through exclusive access for the first time to the complete collection of these extraordinary tapes, together with interviews with those who knew her, audiences will hear Diana’s voice as never before, showing her not as a passive victim of events, but as a strong woman who is risking everything to take control of her own narrative.”