Bulimia, suicide attempts, hatred for Camilla: this is how Diana shocked (also) her biographer

June 15th 1992 the royal biographer Andrew Morton shook the British Crown by publishing the book bomb Diana: Her True Story in which the most fragile and suffering side of the princess came out: bulimia, depression, suicide attempts, hatred for rival Camilla Parker Bowles. In the early nineties, lady d indeed had recorded some tapes to go over his unhappy marriage to Charles. And then he had delivered them into the hands of the writer, who put them on paper, precisely, in 1992.

In the fifth season of The Crown among the characters we will also see Morton (played by Andrew Steele). And we will see him grappling with the drafting of the famous biography of Diana. A volume which, as you know, shocked the world. Including the author of the biography himselfas we are only now discovering from the pages of People. Interviewed by the American magazine, Morton admitted: «Diana was talking about a woman named Camilla. I had never heard of her. She spoke of bulimia nervosa. I had never heard of it. And he even talked about several suicide attempts. I was baffled».

The writer also had his say about the Netflix series The Crown: «The show is largely based on realitybut some elements have been changed e exaggerated for dramatic effect». After the publication of the book bomb, Morton received insults and death threats. However “it is not true that there was a break-in at my house. It was in my office». While the physician James Colthurst (Oliver Chris in the series), a great friend of the princess who at the time had acted as intermediary between her and the writer (they met at Kensington Palace, where Diana handed him the recorded tapes) «it was indeed thrown off the bike as he circled Parliament Square.’ Diana, Morton adds, “was very worried»: «His sitting room at Kensington Palace had been ransacked for bedbugs».

According to the royal biographer, members of the royal family «very much fear the fifth season of The Crown». Because «they are convinced that it will have a negative impact on the coronation of Charles III»: «Well, I have news for them: it won’t. It will only intensify interest in the ruler and the royal family around the world. Everyone knows what happened by now, and they’ve accepted it. Diana is dead. Everyone accepted it. This is now history.”

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