The documentary series ‘Diana Unheard’, featuring unreleased audio recordings of Princess Diana of Wales, will be presented at the international audiovisual content market MIPCOM, which will be held in the French city of Cannes from October 12 to 15.
Three chapters in which Lady Di (1961-1997) can be heard “speaking openly about her life, her loves, and the royal family,” as reported this Thursday by Deadline magazine.
The British production company Love Monday had access to the secretly recorded conversations that Diana held with her friend James Colthurst in 1991.
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Those recordings, five hours in length, were the basis for the book ‘Diana: Her True Story – In Her Own Words’, by Andrew Morton, which was published in 1992.
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Diana speaks frankly
The princess speaks candidly in the recordings about the then Prince Charles and Camilla (now King Charles III and Queen Camilla), as well as Prince Andrew, who in 2025 was stripped of his royal title by his brother following the scandal caused by his relationship with the late tycoon Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of sexual abuse of minors.
The producers explained in statements to Deadline that the documentary moves away from the usual view of Diana of Wales as a vulnerable person.
“In making ‘Diana Uheard’, we wanted to challenge the narrative that has too often portrayed Diana, Princess of Wales, simply as a victim of her circumstances,” noted Kerene Barefield, creative director of Love Monday TV.
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That is why a Diana is shown who is not a passive victim of events, “but a woman who takes control of her own narrative and risks everything to make her voice heard.”
“It is a unique opportunity to listen to several hours of intimate recordings of the princess; her own story in her own voice at a crucial moment in her life,” stated Richard Life, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Co-productions at Cineflix Rights, which has acquired the rights to the documentary.
Considered one of the most beloved and charismatic members of the British royal family, Diana, Princess of Wales, was elevated to the status of a pop icon following her tragic death in a 1997 car accident in Paris, which caused a great global impact.
His life and legacy have inspired numerous productions in film and television over the years, and now comes this documentary from Love Monday TV, the British production company behind series about the British monarchy, such as ‘Her Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors’, made for ITV, or ‘William and Harry: Love and Betrayal’, for Channel 5.
And it comes at a time when there is a lot of talk again about Lady Di due to the memoir by her brother, Earl Charles Spencer, which will be published on the 22nd and has already caused controversy due to the first excerpt, released this Wednesday by the British tabloid Daily Mail.
In that preview, Spencer asserts that during a heated phone call with his former brother-in-law after Diana’s death, the then-Prince Charles told him: “Don’t worry, we’ll forget her very soon.”
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson indicated hours later that while the institution “as a rule” does not comment on books, King Charles III “is aware that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment, and can color memory in a way that others do not recognize, even years after such a loss.”
