The new season of The Crown details how Diana helped the journalist to write 1992 book.
“I’ve confronted my husband about his mistress and I’ve been dismissed.
I’ve gone to The Queen, it’s like facing a blank wall.
Cover of ‘Diana: Her True Story’.Simon and Schuster
Diana’s collaboration with Morton would result inDiana: Her True Story.
So how did Diana come to help Morton with his explosive book?
And what has the writer been doing in the years since?
Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana on ‘The Crown’.Netflix
“Morton recalled earlier this yearin a first-hand account published byThe Daily Mail.
When Morton began listening to the results, he was amazed at the candor shown by the princess.
“And that antipathy has been going on for 10 years.
Author Andrew Morton.NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP via Getty Images
Eventually you would have thought they would come around to examine the problem.
But nothing gets tackled until it becomes a crisis, which is a fundamental weakness in the organization.”
“It was all, ‘How dare you write about this?’
and ‘How much money are you making?
‘“he later toldThe Toronto Sun.
“The questions were never about the story, they were about the periphery of the story.
They lost sight of the first rule of journalism, which is to tell the story.”
So with both of them, it’s a very different trajectory to, say, Prince William.”
My heart bleeds for the whole misunderstanding but it bleeds most for Diana.'”
Season 5 ofThe Crownis streaming now on Netflix.
