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Dateline NBC

The Life and Death of Princess Diana

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

More than two decades since the tragic death of Princess Diana, Dateline reveals new insights into the real story of the very private royal, including a look at Diana’s troubled marriage, her turbulent life in the royal family and the investigation into her death. With the rise in popularity of The Crown, Andrea Canning reports on how much of it is true and what was really happening behind the palace gates.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Lester Holt and this is Dateline.

0:03.8

Princess Diana, she's fascinated the world all over again.

0:08.2

Curdacy of the Crown.

0:10.2

The Crown, of course, is getting a lot of buzz.

0:12.4

Royal drama dominating the headlines.

0:14.4

It's the Diana years.

0:16.1

But is the Netflix portrait the true portrait?

0:19.4

Some of it's been fictionalized.

0:21.1

This is not a documentary.

0:22.8

There's a great many people involved in world life

0:25.3

that think it's just straight far too far from the truth.

0:28.4

Now, the riveting real story.

0:31.3

She stood up to this huge institution of the British monarchy.

0:36.0

She often talked about dark forces.

0:39.2

There were allegations of conspiracy to murder.

0:42.9

What did you see as you entered the tunnel?

0:48.7

Prince Harry was going to make sure that history was not repeated.

0:52.4

Basically saying, back off, you're hounding her like you

0:55.6

hounded my mother.

0:58.0

She was betrayed by so many people.

1:01.6

We only knew half the story.

1:14.8

Here's Andrea Canning with the life and death of Princess Diana.

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