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updated: 09/01/2006
This forthcoming Channel 4 production focuses on the queen’s reaction to the death of princess Diana. By all accounts (and judging by the haste with which the usual royal sycophants are rushing to say, ‘It wasn’t like that.’) this is more bad news for the royal family’s tattered image. Still the PR blurb says the film:
Paints an intimate and sympathetic portrait of a shocked and grieving family, struggling to deal with their private response to Diana and her death, in the face of an extraordinary and unprecedented outpouring of sorrow and anger.
Helen Mirren must have mellowed a bit since being made a Dame or maybe she was just empathising with her character:
I would feel very bad if she [the queen] didn't like the way I played her . . . I think in many ways the Queen was betrayed by Diana, as the whole royal family was . . . Diana was a very unstable character and many times didn’t know the implication of her actions.
Daniel Phillips (who was also responsible for Bleak House) was the hair & makeup designer.