Diana: In Her Own Words
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
Synopsis
Diana: In Her Own Words (2017) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. It is built almost entirely from private tapes shot by her speech coach Peter Settelen in the early 1990s — footage in which the Princess of Wales speaks for herself, with no palace minder and no interviewer steering the story.
Diana's voice carries the whole film, from a shy girl in an aristocratic family to the most photographed woman alive. The engagement to Prince Charles, a wedding watched by hundreds of millions, the births of William and Harry, then the slow collapse of the marriage, the bulimia, the loneliness inside Kensington Palace. Director Tom Jennings keeps narration to a minimum and lets the recordings and period news reels do the talking.
The result is a portrait from the inside rather than another rehash of tabloid headlines. Diana describes what it felt like to live under the lens and the protocol, in her own words. The candor is striking — the tapes stirred real controversy in Britain when they first aired. Worth a watch if you want her account instead of everyone else's. Stream Diana: In Her Own Words (2017) online on iFILM.
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