He had worked as royal correspondent for the Daily Star for a decade, and claims that before even beginning to write the book he 'knew, already, that the reality of her life did not match the image. Initially, Morton says he 'was called a liar' when the book was first published. He would go on to release a new version of his book that included transcripts of the tapes Diana had recorded. Confidentiality had been a condition of her taking part, but Morton admitted after her death that she had, in fact, collaborated with him. (Getty Images)įor many years, it was only guessed Diana had actually taken part. 'It was very much undercover, very secretive and if the Establishment had got any wind of it the the cover would have been blown and the story of Diana that the world knows today would never have been revealed.'Īndrew Morton in 1992 after his book 'Diana: Her True Story' had recently been published. 'The whole thing was rather like a spy thriller,' Morton said in 1998. The book - and the extraordinary way in which Diana smuggled incredibly personal recordings out of the royal household to tell her side of the story, features heavily in Season Five of The Crown.įor the most part, The Crown's depiction of how the collaboration transpired is broadly accurate, according to Morton's own accounts of what happened. It was filled with shock revelations, including her husband's infidelity, that she suffered from bulimia, self-harmed and had struggled so much that she had attempted suicide. The biography - written by Andrew Morton - was eventually called Diana: Her True Story and depicted a life far from the one being presented in public. In 1991, Diana made a decision to collaborate on a bombshell biography that would ultimately set her on a trajectory to breaking away from the Royal Family and divorcing Charles. Charles and Diana during a royal visit to Ottawa, Canada in 1991.

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