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Princess Diana directly cooperated Morton for his unofficial biography Diana: Her True Story
Tim Graham/Getty ImagesAndrew Morton, author of the bestseller Diana: Her True Story, revealed that he paid off Terence Donovan, a prominent British photographer and film director, to keep secret the Princess of Wales’ cooperation with his biography. In an interview with The Radio Times, the author said that Donovan blackmailed him unless Morton paid him £70, for an iconic picture of Diana wearing a tiara.
The Princess had given the writer a series of photos which she had thought had been taken by her official photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Donovan was well known for taking photographs of prominent celebrities and high-society individuals. When the first extract of the book was serialised in The Sunday Times, Donovan’s photo appeared on the front page of the paper and was misattributed to Demarchelier. The photographer threatened to divulge that Diana directly cooperated with the book if the price demands for his picture weren’t met.
Andrew Morton has written countless biographies of royal figures and celebrities
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In The Crown Season 5, the second episode finds Elizabeth Debicki’s Princess Diana in a dilemma. (A note for the reader: spoilers are to follow.) She’s miserable in her marriage to Prince Charles, who is in love with Camilla Parker Bowles. The press follows her every move—so much so that Diana even fears that her home at Kensington Palace might be bugged. And most of all, she feels trapped. Leaving Charles means potentially sacrificing not only her role as an altruistic public servant but her sons: As heirs to the throne, they’d have to remain behind in England if Diana were to move anywhere else. “I’d love to have a book out there so everyone understands how difficult it’s been,” Debicki’s Diana says to her friend James Colthurst when he tells the princess that a journalist named Andrew Morton is writing a book. “But I don’t want to be responsible for starting a war.”
Secretly, Colthurst agrees to be an intermediary between the two. Morton provides him with questions, which he, in turn, passes on to the princess. She records her answers on tape, and Colthurst returns them to Morton. Since Colthurst is a frequent visitor to Kensington Palace, no one suspects a thing.
The Crown is known for putting an exaggerated spin on real-life events. In the case of Diana’s tell-all b