HBO Sets a Date for Its Diana Documentary 'The Princess'
It's been a quarter century since the tragic death of Princess Diana, and it still seems as though we can't get enough of her story.
From television series (Netflix's The Crown) to feature films (Spencer) and even a Broadway musical (Diana: The Musical), we've certainly seen a lot of fictionalized accounts of Diana Spencer. They run the gamut from who she might have been to who we all perhaps hoped she was. But the upcoming documentary film The Princess aims to simplify things by telling her story as it happened and reminding us of our shared public memory of her (for whatever given value of "true" that still holds.)
The film uses only contemporaneous archival audio, video footage, and public records to retell the story of the woman known as the "people's princess." The film takes audiences back to critical events in Diana's life as they happened, including her seemingly fairy-tale public courtship and wedding to Prince Charles and the birth of their two sons. And then on to their bitter divorce and Diana's tragic and untimely death on August 31, 1997.
The Princess will premiere on HBO on August 13, in a broadcast aimed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana's tragic death. The feature-length film, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival to largely glowing reviews, will also be available to stream on HBO Max that same day.
