Over the weekend, there was an interesting claim that Netflix approached Prince Harry about the possibility of producing or participating in a documentary (or docuseries) about his mother, Princess Diana. The approach apparently happened when the Sussexes were negotiating their new Netflix contract, and Netflix wants the documentary to be released in 2027, for the 30th anniversary of Diana’s death. I said that I believed that Netflix has approached Harry about doing something, but I have no idea if Harry is open to it. But the stories are enough to upset “Prince William’s friends,” who now claim that if Harry does a doc, William will too.

Prince William and Prince Harry could end up making rival films about their mother Princess Diana, to mark the 30th anniversary of her death in two years’ time.

Representatives for Prince Harry’s Archewell production company are already talking to TV industry insiders about a new documentary about Diana, to mark the 30th anniversary of her death, The Royalist can reveal. William will be uneasy about Harry “claiming her legacy” and will feel bound to respond with his own contribution if Harry goes ahead, a source said.

One senior executive at an independent production house in the U.K. told the Daily Beast: “Harry is looking to do a series about Diana in 2027. They want to get the right partners and we have had a conversation with them. I’m sure other production companies have too. An inside account of the implosion of Charles and Diana’s marriage and Harry’s story of Diana’s death and its aftermath would be the TV sensation of all time.”

Neither William nor Harry’s team would comment on the claims, but a friend of William’s told The Royalist, “The film the brothers made for the 20th anniversary was meant to be the last word. William made that very clear at the time. But of course things have changed since then. If Harry is now going to do another massive Netflix show effectively claiming her legacy, William will have to fight back, whether that’s with an interview or a documentary of his own. The whole situation is just very sad.”

The friend said William would be extremely unlikely to work with the BBC which he believes harmed his mother with the deceptive tactics used in its infamous Panorama interview. “It would be ridiculous to do it with the BBC,” they said.

Any intervention from Harry that questioned the official verdict on Diana’s death—that it was caused by her driver Henri Paul being drunk—would be sensational. It also could absolutely happen. In his memoir, Spare, Harry said the official explanation of her death “was an insult. Fanciful, riddled with factual errors and gaping logical holes, it raised more questions than it answered.”

In an interview with the BBC earlier this year, he hinted again at what I repeatedly have been told is his deeply held personal belief that there was more to his mother’s death than a speeding drunk driver, saying: “I don’t want history to repeat itself. I think… the majority [of people] also don’t want history to repeat itself. Through the disclosure process, I’ve discovered that some people want history to repeat itself, which is pretty dark.”

[From The Daily Beast]

From reading Spare, it’s clear that Harry never believed the official stories about Diana’s death. But his belief has been compounded over time, that there were many other forces looking to take down or take out his mother. Everything that happened to his security in 2020, everything that happened since he and Meghan exited the UK has convinced him that there were some very dark forces behind Diana’s death, and those dark forces want to harm him and Meghan as well. A prince in his 40s, having lived past his mother’s age when she died, saying on the record and on camera that he believes that everyone was fed a cover story? It would be a huge deal. Now, would William try to release a competing project? LOL. I doubt it but mostly because I think he’s too lazy to even try. But if William does do something, he’ll probably call Harry “paranoid,” just like he called Diana the same.

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