Secret Diana Recordings Debut in New 3-Part Docuseries
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- Love Monday has secured full and exclusive access to five hours of taped conversations between Diana and James Colthurst recorded in 1991, which became the foundation of Andrew Morton's book Diana: Her True Story.
- Diana: The Unheard Truth (working title) will be shopped worldwide and, in the three decades since Diana's death, less than one hour of these tapes has ever been heard publicly.
- The docuseries will reveal Diana's thoughts on Charles (now King Charles III), Camilla, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, then Prince Andrew, and the creative team said it will "challenge the reductive narrative that has too often framed Diana as a victim of her circumstances."
- New on-camera voices include Delissa Needham, a prep schoolmate who has never spoken on camera before, alongside Sam McKnight (hairstylist throughout the '90s), Penny Thornton (Diana's astrologer), and Daily Mail journalist Richard Kay.
- Production credits place the three-part doc with Love Monday and 53 Degrees Global, financed by Rainmaker Films and Plymouth Films, with Sophie Todd as series editor, Emily Hirst producing, and Justin Frahm as DoP.
Why it matters: Roughly four hours of previously unheard Diana material becomes public for the first time since her 1997 death, giving the project a near-monopoly on raw audio that has fed three decades of biography and reporting. With Morton and Colthurst on board as partners rather than sources, the docuseries positions itself to reframe Diana's story on her own recorded terms rather than through intermediaries.
