“When I saw her in The Night Manager, I remember saying to my wife, ‘She's the next Diana.’ There was just no question. James always kept the tapes.”ĭebicki is uncanny as the late royal, he says. But the tapes were never kept there anyway. Camera was stolen, some files were gone through.
“And then within a matter of a couple of weeks of that warning, I arrived at my office one day and it was broken into. “I was warned by two people, Richard Kay and Arthur Edwards, that the Royal Protection Squad were looking for my contact in a very quiet way, and they were going over everything,” he recalls. And thankfully, I've kept notes on all of it.” Detailing the plot of the episode, he shares that yes, he was nicknamed “Clark Kent,” years ago on the royal beat, and yes, just like in The Crown, his office was broken into while he was working on the book. “I had eight script writers on a conference call discussing the absolute minutiae of that period of time. “To be honest with you, the story of how we made Diana: Her True Story has been a TV drama waiting to happen,” Morton says, noting that he served as a consultant on the episode, titled “The System.”
Their covert collaboration recently became fodder for an episode of The Crown, with Elizabeth Debicki playing Diana, and Andrew Steele portraying the bespectacled author. When writing Her True Story, Morton sent Diana questions and the Princess secretly recorded her answers, messengering the cassette tapes back to Morton via her friend Dr.
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