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Nov 5, 2021 · Spencer, a Pablo Larraín film about a Christmas Princess Diana spent at Sandringham in the early nineties, begins with a simple message. Or, depending on how you look at it, a disclaimer: “A...
Nov 4, 2021 · The Peaky Blinders creator drew from the first-hand accounts of those who knew Diana and people working at Sandringham during that fateful 1991 Christmas.
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- Cady Lang
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- The separation of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. The film takes place in 1991, placing it just one year ahead of the time that Diana and Charles formally separated in December 1992.
- Holidays with the royal family. In Spencer, when Diana arrives at Sandringham, she is weighed upon arrival, much to her unhappiness (an emotion that colors her entire time at Sandringham.
- Diana’s eating disorder. The film doesn’t shy away from showing the sobering realities of Diana’s struggle with the eating disorder bulimia, showing graphic scenes of her bingeing and purging.
- Diana’s childhood home at Sandringham. In the film, Diana’s time at Sandringham House in Norfolk during the holidays brings up happy memories from her childhood and of her father, with the princess even visiting Park House, an abandoned residence on the Sandringham estate that once belonged to her family.
Oct 22, 2021 · The Spencer true story reveals that while it's played for shock value in the movie, there's zero evidence that Princess Diana ever said this to a dresser in real life. The scene has drawn criticism from historians and fans, who find it out of character and demeaning to the late Princess.
Nov 5, 2021 · Spencer, director Pablo Larraín's highly buzzy film starring Kristen Stewart as the Princess of Wales, follows three days over the Christmas holiday at Sandringham in 1991, when an anguished...
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Nov 5, 2021 · That book, Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton, was based on tape recordings she made about her experiences inside the royal family, which she smuggled out of the palace through a friend. In...
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Pablo Larraín’s stiflingly intimate look at Christmastime in Sandringham shows an increasingly troubled Diana try and survive three days under the stifling environment the Royal Family has...
