My thanks for their co-operation are therefore all the more heartfelt and sincere. Like Diana, they spoke with honesty and frankness in spite of the fact it meant laying aside the ingrained habits of discretion and loyalty which proximity to royalty invariably engenders. As Season Five of The Crown shows, Diana contributed directly to the creation of the book. "The story is based on lengthy, tape-recorded interviews with Diana, supplemented by the testimony of her family and friends. The title of Andrew Morton’s bombshell book Diana: Her True Story In Her Own Words' is literal. "This biography is unique in that the story contained in its pages would never have appeared had it not been for the wholehearted co-operation of Diana, the late Princess of Wales," Morton writes in the acknowledgements of the most recent edition. Yet, when she tragically died five years later, Morton re-issued the book as Diana: Her True Story-in Her Own Words, acknowledging his collaboration with the Princess of Wales to tell her story. At the time, Morton shared with the press that the three main sources he used were Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, her close friend and Prince Harry's godmother, Carolyn Bartholomew, and James Gilbey, who was another close friend (and rumored lover) of Diana's.
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