“It was like the royal version of All the President’s Men, where danger lurked in shadows,” recalls Morton in a Zoom interview with Vanity Fair on Friday.
To the real Morton, who wrote the bombshell book Diana: Her True Story based on the tapes, The Crown’s spy-thriller sensibility is accurate to his experience. To coordinate the Bashir interview, The Crown’s Diana meets the reporter in parking garages and sneaks the BBC camera crew into her home by telling palace security that they are just deliverymen dropping off a new hi-fi system. Inside her Kensington Palace apartment, the princess answers Morton’s questions on cassette tapes that are passed back and forth through an intermediary, Diana’s longtime friend Dr. With her marriage to Prince Charles beyond repair, the late royal secretly collaborates with author Andrew Morton and Panorama journalist Martin Bashir to share her personal story in unsparing detail.
The Princess Diana story line in The Crown’s fifth season feels a bit like a spy thriller.
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