Princess Diana: Spencer film criticised by royal experts

American actress Kristen Stewart will star as Princess Diana in the biopic, titled Spencer, that covers a critical weekend in the early 1990s when the Princess concluded her marriage to Prince Charles wasn’t working. The film is set during one of Diana’s final Christmases at the House of Windsor in Sandringham and a royal expert has said the movie will not be welcomed by the Royal Family.

Royal biographer Royal Jobson, who co-authored Diana: Closely Guarded Secret with the royal’s former security guard Ken Wharfe, has said the Firm are bound to disapprove of the film.

He told US Weekly: “I knew her as a person, it’s inevitable that the royals won’t like the biopic at all.

“They won’t like it, but they would have expected it.

“It is the truth, I think the most important thing is how well the actress can interpret the role. We’ll have to wait and see on that.”

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Ms Stewart, 30, will portray Diana in the film, and her likeness to the late Princess has already been lauded.

The first official image of the actress, who shot to fame after staring in the Twilight saga, was released last month and showed her sporting Diana’s signature feathery bob haircut.

When discussing the film’s photograph, Mr Jobson said the actress looked “remarkably like Diana”, describing their likeness as “uncanny”.

Even before the film has hit the screens, royal experts are questioning the accuracy of the script.

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The film follows the moments in which the Princess of Wales realised she “needed to veer from a path that put her in line to one day be queen” in 1991.

But both Mr Jobson and fellow biographer Ingrid Seward said Diana had stopped visiting the Sandringham estate before the film was set.

Speaking on True Royalty TV ‘s The Royal Beat, Mr Jobson said: “I don’t even think she was there that weekend. She wasn’t even at Sandringham, on this supposed weekend.

“The film will suggest this is where the decision was made to divorce, but she never made that decision.

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“I didn’t think she was at Sandringham after 1990 and this was set in 1991.”

Ms Seward added: “The film is based on three days at Sandringham, and the period that it is based on, Diana wasn’t going to Sandringham anymore.

“It’s probably going to just play up what life was like at Sandringham, which would be quite interesting for a lot of people to see. It has a good setting.”

The film has been written by Steven Knight CBE, known for scripting Peaky Blinders and Dirty Pretty Things, and directed by Pablo Larrain, who is known for his Oscar-nominated films No (2012) and Jackie (2016).

“I didn’t think she was at Sandringham after 1990 and this was set in 1991.”

Ms Seward added: “The film is based on three days at Sandringham, and the period that it is based on, Diana wasn’t going to Sandringham anymore.

“It’s probably going to just play up what life was like at Sandringham, which would be quite interesting for a lot of people to see. It has a good setting.”

The film has been written by Steven Knight CBE, known for scripting Peaky Blinders and Dirty Pretty Things, and directed by Pablo Larrain, who is known for his Oscar-nominated films No (2012) and Jackie (2016).

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