“It would have made things much, much easier.” Instead, to dig deeper into the story of a man many think they know, Jennings uses rare clips of the monarch, ranging from newly digitized and previously unaired news footage from his trips to Australia to playtime with his young sons. “There are no Morton tapes for Charles,” he says. But when it was time to give the same treatment to Diana’s ex-husband, the soon-to-be-crowned King Charles III, Jennings had to employ a different playbook. His documentary was a success, begging for a follow up. “For seven straight hours we sat, listening to these tapes as if Diana was sitting right in the room with us, telling us her life story.” We went in a small writer's room, an assistant brought in a big tray of tea, because she knew we were going to be there a long time, and he hit play,” says Jennings. Andrew Morton’s publisher's office is, of course, something right out of Hogwarts. Having convinced British journalist and author Andrew Morton to allow him to use the tapes he acquired straight from Diana for his book, Jennings made his way to London. Morton did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.Documentary filmmaker Tom Jennings vividly recalls the early stages of his first royal doc, Diana: In Her Own Words, in which the late princess narrates her life story.
“The writers asked me all kinds of questions, like what color wallpaper is in my daughter’s bedroom because that’s where I had an office for a while,” Morton says. Morton said Netflix made sure its portrayal of the now 69-year-old journalist was as accurate as possible. Jüschke/ullstein picture via Getty Images James Colthurst as a middleman to submit written questions to Diana, and then she recorded the answers to send back.
©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Colle Following the book’s publication, it was revealed that Morton and Diana were dating Dr. ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Colle “What I didn’t realize at the time was her sense of isolation, her despair within the royal system,” Morton recalled. The show’s fifth and critically acclaimed season explores the disillusionment of the marriage of Princess Diana (Debicki) and then-Prince Charles (Dominic West). After Diana’s death in 1997, Morton published an updated version of the book, revealing that the princess herself was his main source of information.
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