Instead, she would invite Colhurst for “lunches” at Kensington Palace so they could talk, and he could record their conversations.

As accurately depicted in The Crown, Morton and Princess Diana never spoke directly. Diana contacted Morton through a mutual friend, Dr James Colthurst, to work on what would later become Diana: Her True Story – In Her Own Words. The New York Times reports that he wasn’t “affiliated with a newspaper, television station, or radio station” at the time. However, she was aware of Morton and his work, and discovered he was preparing to write a biography of her. Princess Diana reportedly wanted to tell her story, but didn’t want to do so through a memoir due to the ramifications and controls Buckingham Palace would presumably have. But just how involved was Princess Diana in Morton’s book and how accurate is The Crown? How Diana: Her True Story – In Her Own Words Came To Be But, as S5 of The Crown depicts, the late Princess of Wales actually played a major role in the book. The royal correspondent, who worked for the now defunct newspaper News Of The World as well as the Daily Mail, cited sources close to Diana, and the Princess publicly denied having anything to do with it. An “overnight bestseller,” Morton’s biography shook the foundations of the royal family. The cracks of their marriage began to show in earnest in June of that year (though we now know had been forming for years prior) but it could be argued that Andrew Morton’s biography, Diana: Her True Story – In Her Own Words, was the true catalyst. The Crown season 5 covers a turbulent time for the royal family, spanning everything from the devastating fire at Windsor to Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s separation in 1992.

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