“Morton’s view is that his version would at least give you some control.” Though there was no ‘hatchet job’ on the immediate horizon in 1992, Prince Charles did cooperate with Jonathan Dimbleby on a 1994 biography which detailed in part how the prince had been forced into a loveless marriage with the Princess of Wales. One of the most adored members of the British royal family, she died in a 1997 car crash. Elizabeth Debicki stars in Season 5 of Netflix series The Crown as Princess Diana, seen inset in 1992the same year as the release of a biography about her by Andrew Morton inset bottom. Morton’s new biography of Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September, asks us to remember these earlier feats.

He thinks there’s another book coming about you that’s likely to be a bit of a hatchet job based on sources close to the Prince of Wales,” Colthurst tells Diana. The story behind Princess Diana's secret tapes Long-time friend helped facilitate the recordings Create your free profile or log in to save this article March 3, 2004, 9:22 PM PST Secret tapes. Princess Diana was Princess of Wales while married to Prince Charles. Described as a ‘minor aristocrat’, Colthurst was educated at Eton and came from a wealthy family.Ĭolthurst later spoke of how Diana was 'enormously enthusiastic' to tell her story.

They had been friends since before Diana’s marriage into the royal family, when she was still Lady Diana Spencer, working as a nanny in London. Born in Ireland in 1957, James Colthurst was a close friend of Diana, and became the ‘middleman’ between the Princess of Wales and her biographer, Andrew Morton, in 1991–2.

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