Very spoilery, of course. If you’re after my Spencer review, it’s here. “Go! Run!” Spencer is about a three-day period one Christmas in the early 1990s. Diana is joining the rest of the royal family at Sandringham (one of the Queen’s houses) in Norfolk; she and Charles are not yet separated. It’s an imagined series… She was always a Spencer! Read More
Spencer 3.5 stars
Princess Diana joins the Royal family for Christmas at Sandringham. I have had an uneasy if entirely one-sided relationship with Princess Diana for nearly 40 years now, ranging from bafflement to astonishment to sympathy. I’m not sure this film really changes things, so used to her reappraisal am I now. In Pablo Larraín’s icily beautiful… Spencer Read More
Diana: The Musical 2 stars
Diana’s life from 1982 to 1997, in song. “Has your torture finished,” enquired my 9 year old, an hour and a half into Diana: The Musical. Admittedly he veers to the dramatic — “what is the point of me being here,” he asked, aged 7, when I took him to see the film Cats —… Diana: The Musical Read More
Diana endures a royal family Christmas in Spencer teaser
Classic ’80s fashions. Massive hair flicks. Brittle British Royals who all look like horses. And, in the centre, Kristen Stewart as People’s Princess, Lady Diana Spencer. (She was always Diana Spencer.) Yes after the Spencer teaser poster release comes the teaser trailer, and it’s mesmerising. Here’s the synopsis: The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince… Diana endures a royal family Christmas in Spencer teaser Read More