In Spencer, Diana is horrified (though seemingly unsurprised) to discover her husband gave her the same pearl necklace he gave to his then-mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles. There's no evidence to suggest this gift-giving snafu ever happened (or that she ate them at the dinner table).
It's true that Princess Diana didn't like hunting (and especially didn't like her sons taking part). However, there's no evidence that she ever walked out into the middle of the men hunting on Boxing Day and demanded her sons come with her like she does in Spencer.
The character of Maggie in Spencer, and the profession of her love for Diana on the beach scene, are fictional.
Though Princess Diana was a fan of grabbing fast food with her sons, Chef McGrady told Marie Claire she favored McDonald's. However, there's no evidence Diana took William and Harry for fast food after a Christmas holiday at Sandringham (though it's not out of the realm of possibility).
When they take that one, my dear, you understand that all you really are is currency." As with so much of the Spencer movie, you quickly realize that what you're watching is not historically accurate. How much of Spencer is based on a true story? Spencer openly admits that it contains far more fiction than fact.
Princess Diana's last meal was at the Ritz Paris
Due to suspicions that members of the paparazzi, who had been trailing Diana, Fayed, and Paul all evening, had entered the restaurant, the trio decided to have their meals delivered to their room.
Like, it appears that Diana's curtains being sewn shut is also not based on any real fact, and Diana's childhood home wasn't dilapidated like the movie makes it seem.
Diana's relationship with palace staff
In the movie, Maggie confesses to Diana that she's in love with her. While Diana had many dressers in real life who assisted her with personal care and her wardrobe, there is no evidence she had romantic overtures from them.
The Maggie character seems not necessarily based on a real person but based on a job that did exist within the royal family. Appleby was married to a man, FWIW, and there's no proof that any of Diana's maids ever confessed that they loved her. Again, this movie is a work of fiction.
“Her heart couldn't function properly because it was lacking in blood.” The surgery revealed that Diana had suffered a significant tear in her pericardium, which protects the heart.
One notable royal who refused to bow at Princess Diana's funeral in 1997 was Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II. Prince Philip was a close family friend to Diana and the two were known to have a close and complicated relationship.
“She was very much a hit with the royal family—they really warmed to her,” Chernock says. “Diana worked very, very hard to ingratiate herself and to model what she thought being a princess would entail, and she did it very successfully.”
After the princess' death, most of her personal jewelry was inherited by her two sons Princes William and Harry, with pieces loaned to her during her lifetime being returned to Queen Elizabeth II, where they are most likely to have been inherited by King Charles in 2022.
According to Camilla: From Outcast To Future Queen Consort author Angela Levin, Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Diana's grandmother, Lady Fermoy, had a huge part to play in it, as did the fact that Princess Diana was much younger than Camilla and therefore, in theory, more likely to give birth to the heir to the ...
And I said: 'I know what's going on between you and Charles and I just want you to know that.'" The princess then gave Camilla's alleged response, which was: "'You've got everything you've ever wanted. All the men in the world fall in love with you. You've got two beautiful children.
But only one man has been called the "love of her life"—British Pakistani surgeon Hasnat Khan, whom Diana dated from 1995 to 1997.
Princess Diana did not jam jewelry into her mouth for food. "I know it's an interpretation, it's an imagining, it's a poem, it's all of this — and none of this is to excuse anything that we got wrong — but it was genuinely just kind of a meditation on what she inspired," the actress explained.
"The story is about liberation and she did get out," Stewart says. "She did just decide one day to walk out the door that was not actually locked, and she lived the last couple years of her life in a much more inhabited and honest way. I think the movie ends on a light note because that is what happened.
Princess Diana was buried in a long black dress designed by Lay Di's friend and designer Catherine Walker.
Her wedding gown barely fit in the royal coach.
Paul's Cathedral, as the excessive amount of fabric made it difficult for her to fit in the coach. Folding the fabric over and over to fit Diana into the carriage was what caused the wrinkles on her dress, designer Elizabeth Emanuel told the Daily Mail.
Four-row Japanese pearl choker
The Princess first wore the choker during a state visit to the Netherlands in November 1982. The choker contains four rows of Japanese cultured pearls with a central diamond clasp. The piece is now being worn by the Princess of Wales who uses it as a loan from the King.
Camilla was not welcome at Princess Diana's Funeral
Although she did attend Diana's wedding, she was not able to attend the funeral. This decision was made at the request of the Queen, who insisted that then Prince Charles could not bring his paramour to the service, likely due to the affair the two had in 1986.
Yep, *that* lunch meeting between Princess Diana and now-Queen Camilla Parker Bowles at a restaurant called Ménage à Trois. It was… simply next-level.
William and Harry liked Happy Meals
Darren McGrady, who worked as personal chef to Diana and her sons (plus Queen Elizabeth II) recounted to Marie Claire a time when Diana informed him that she was taking the boys out to McDonald's for lunch. Horrified, McGrady insisted that he, of course, could make burgers for them.