![]() ![]() ![]() Morton would then transcribe the six, hour-long tapes, and mask the red-hot info as coming from a palace source, or a friend, rather than Diana herself. The set-up was pretty analogue (well, it was the early ‘90s): Morton would give a list of questions to Colthurst, as well as some audio tapes to record Diana’s answers on, and then Colthurst would stick the tapes in the basket of his bike and hot-step it back to Morton. So, as we see in the new series of The Crown, he used a middle-man: Dr James Colthurst, a friend and confidant of Diana’s. However, Morton, a former royal journalist, had a plan: an “authorised unauthorised” biography, that he correctly predicted would be one of the most explosive and best-selling books of the decade. How do you write a book communicating the true thoughts of a princess, without revealing that said princess is the source of your book? This was the dilemma Andrew Morton faced in 1991, when he got word that Princess Diana was willing to do a tell-all story on her disastrous marriage to the then-Prince Charles. ![]()
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