Diana

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(Elizabeth Weinberg / For The Times) Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki has now lived in England long enough to know how she likes her tea, a pot of which she’s letting steep in front of her. “Leave the bag in for as long as humanly possible,” she says. “I want it to hit me like coffee, but I want it to still be tea.” That’s a pretty apt metaphor for her lauded turn as Princess Diana Spencer in “At a certain stage toward the end of it, it dawned on me that I’d have to very consciously unpeel the layers,” says Debicki, who credits having dancer parents, and her own ballet training, with a very body-conscious approach to acting. She also acknowledges how much her osteopath has helped her with the factory-reset part of the gig. “The other day, he was like, ‘Can we go back to your [own] body?’” she says with a gentle laugh. “The actor wants the body to be as neutral a canvas as possible so you can impact on it and become somebody else, how they want to move.” (Netflix) For Debicki, Diana’s physicality was about so much more than the recognizable head-drop. “Everyone and their mother does that,” Debicki says. “My plumber does it; it’s so incessant!” Rather, she sought a deeper understanding of Diana’s presence in any given scene. “She was quite tall, but there’s also this deep humility that seemed to be emanating out, not wanting to take up too much space, knowing that you inherently take up so much space because you’re so luminous. I think it was always a slight kind of deferr...

From their earliest childhood, William and Harry were collateral damage in a cold war between their parents, one that could turn hot in front of them in alarming ways. The two-year age gap between them was critical in forging their distinctive worldviews and, equally so, in shaping their perceptions of their mother. Prince Harry idolized Diana more and understood her less. He would always be her baby, a scamp who was “thick” at his lessons and “naughty, just like me.” His emotions, like hers, were always simmering near the surface. William understood Diana more but idealized her less. He was privy to her volatile love life. He knew the tabloids made her life hell, but he also knew she colluded with them. By his early teens, he was his mother’s most trusted confidant. She used to describe him as “my little wise old man.” Like many women whose relationships with their husbands have become dysfunctional, Diana used her elder son as both a stand-in and a buffer, toting him along for meetings with journalists. Then Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan describes in his diary a startlingly revealing background lunch with Diana and the 13-year-old William at Kensington Palace in 1996 at which, he says, the princess allowed him to ask “literally anything.” William insisted on a glass of wine even when Diana said no, and he seemed thoroughly up-to-date on all the tabloid rumors about her lovers. “He is clearly in the loop on most of her bizarre world and, in particular, the various men ...

Lady Diana Spencer: From Teacher to Princess Diana was born on July 1, 1961, to Edward John Spencer and his wife Frances. At the time of her birth, in Britain’s peerage system, her father held the title of Viscount Althorp. Her parents were divorced in 1969, when she was eight, and her father won sole custody. In 1975, when Diana was 14, her father inherited the title of Earl from his own father, who passed away that year. The title has been awarded since 1765, as the Spencers have been wealthy landowners in England for centuries. Her family rented Park House, an estate owned by Although she lost touch with him as a result of spending much of her youth attending prestigious boarding schools, Diana became re-acquainted with Prince Charles after moving to London to live and work in 1978. In the capital, she initially worked as a nanny before taking a job as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School. The courtship of Charles and Diana lasted several years before they were married at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on Prince Charles and Princess Diana had two sons—Prince William in 1982 and Prince Henry (Harry) in 1984. Their marriage, however, was an unhappy one marked by extramarital affairs. In 1992, they announced their separation, and they divorced officially in 1996. READ MORE: Princess Diana’s Humanitarian Causes Diana, who had developed an interest in music and fashion as a child, quickly became a global icon of popular culture as she developed relationships wi...

“She was going to complete her obligations to her charities,” Kay continued, “and then, around November, would completely withdraw from her formal public life.” Diana had not told Kay why, but he had a hunch: “They were, to use an old but priceless cliche, blissfully happy. I cannot say for certain that they would have married, but in my view it was likely.” “For the mother of the future king of England to bear the child of a Muslim Arab, a child who would be the half sibling of the heir to the throne, would be embarrassing in the eyes of the royal family and the ruling Establishment,” former Time magazine reporters Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod wrote in their book “ Diana and Fayed arrived at the Ritz in the late afternoon. She went to a salon for a hair appointment. He went to the jeweler. The couple then rested in the hotel’s Imperial Suite before going to Fayed’s apartment to get dressed for dinner. She checked in with her children, who were in Scotland with Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth II.

The heart-warming moment The Duke of Sussex and The brothers helped unveil a replanted "White Garden" at Kensington Palace in Diana's memory in 2017 and broke with the schedule by stepping outside, where hundreds of supporters from as far away as Australia had gathered to pay their respects to a woman the media called "The People's Princess." Prince Harry with flowers for Princess Diana marking the 20th anniversary of his mother's death at Kensington Palace, in London, England, on August 30, 2017. The moment resurfaced in a viral TikTok video. Karwai Tang/WireImage William and Harry were given flowers by well-wishers gathered around the cast iron gates and laid the bouquets in honor of their mother. Among the flowers there were also pictures of Diana that had been tied to the railings. A clip of the touching moment has resurfaced on TikTok where it was liked 22.7k times and viewed more than 361k times. The footage begins with Harry's floral tribute before showing a montage of the prince as a child with his mother. Over the top, there is an audio clip from Harry's interview for his The Me You Can't See: "When my mum was taken away from me at the age of 12, just before my 13th birthday, I didn't want the life." Finally, the video shows Harry aged 12 after the death of his mother in an August 1997 Paris car crash. One comment read: "Heart breaking! Many of us still remember Diana. She was wonderful and kind. She will remain unforgettable for most!" Another user posted: "He lo...