As controversy rages around the new series of The Crown, how accurate is the drama to its leading lady, Princess Diana?
Here we compare the reality of Diana's biggest moments - and her personality - to how she's portrayed in the Netflix show by screenwriters.
Diana and Charles
In the show, Charles calls himself and Diana "the perfect team" in public but "bride and gloom" in private.
Series five begins with one of the couple's happy public displays – during their 1991 summer holiday on Charles' yacht Alexandra with William and Harry.
The series also shows Charles' press secretary briefing the media that it is a "second honeymoon" with the kids.
Diana is seen looking pleased that it's being called a second honeymoon but saddened when she finds out Charles has invited his friends to join them.
Charles then cuts it short to meet John Major to float the idea that his mother Queen Elizabeth, could abdicate.
In reality, Diana had given up on things improving. She had already spoken about the marriage difficulties with biographer Andrew Morton before the holiday. And PM John Major branded his storyline with the king "nonsense".
After the Bashir interview, Diana had alienated herself from the entire Royal Family but The Crown suggests she was cut adrift much sooner.
As depicted in the previous series, Diana and her father-in-law Prince Philip had a warm relationship, but this series shows it cool when Philip hears a book about Diana's life is being written – with her cooperation.
Furious Philip warns against it. There appears no inkling of warmth between them. In reality the pair remained close in the year the book was published, 1992, though relations soured later. They regularly wrote to each other between June 1992 until Diana and Charles separated that December.
Madame Lucia Flecha de Lima, the late wife of the former Brazilian ambassador to London, and a close friend of Diana’s said previously, they had a close bond judging from the letters she saw that were sent to Diana that year.
She said: "I personally read around half a dozen of the letters from Prince Philip. Diana let me see them. And although they were tough, it was clear to me he was trying to be constructive.
"They were warm and kind, courteous and helpful, like a father writing to a daughter."
Alone and friendless
Although The Crown successfully shows Diana's fun, charming and playful personality, it is also at pains to simultaneously portray her as a pitiful sad, lonely, friendless figure.
In the show, she says her son William is her only real friend and she goes to the ballet alone. But in reality, Diana did have good friends.
Her best friend was said to be Julia Samuel, a psychotherapist who met Diana socially at a dinner in 1987.
Julia lived in Kensington near Diana. The friends would often go to the gym, have lunch or visit the cinema together.
She has stayed close to William and Harry and she is godmother to Prince William's eldest son George.
Speaking this year, Julia said: "Well, I feel lucky I was such a good friend of Princess Diana. And I really love my godson."
The look
Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki plays the Princess to a T, dazzling yet understated – just like Diana.
The outfits are carefully styled to be as close to the originals as possible and heavily kohl-eyed Debicki, 32, has her gentle mannerisms down perfectly.
And at 6ft 3in she is able to convey 5ft 10in Diana's stand-out regal stature.
Relationship with Hasnat Khan
Diana's relationship with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan was one of her most serious, lasting two years.
She had met Khan in 1995 at the Royal Brompton Hospital while supporting her friend Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo, whose husband was being treated by him.
But in The Crown it is depicted more as a fleeting romance which ends because Diana says she "scared him away".
When Hasnat, played by Humayun Saeed, asks Diana what she sees in him, she tells him: "You forget I already had a prince but he broke my heart. I'm looking for a frog to make me happy."
The series says he dumped her after the 1995 Panorama interview. The reality is they were so in love she visited his family in Pakistan.
But Khan said she ended the relationship in 1997 after returning from holiday with Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed and his family, including son Dodi.
In a statement read at the inquest into her death in 2004, Khan said: "I think Diana finally realised [he] could give her all the things I could not. He had money and could provide the necessary security.
"She wanted to be with someone who was happy to be seen with her in public, and she could do that with Dodi."
The Martin Bashir interview
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The infamous 1995 interview with journalist Martin Bashir, which aired on the BBC ’s Panorama, was arranged by deception.
Forged bank statements were used to convince a paranoid Princess Diana that two senior aides – including her private secretary – were paid spies and suggest that Diana was being bugged by the security services.
The series plays up Diana's increasing fear and paranoia and portrays Bashir exploiting this to the full - telling her she could "trust no one" in order to land his exclusive.
The Crown recreates aspects of the one-hour interview and condenses it into just under four-and-a-half minutes of bombshell after bombshell.
Diana’s words are elaborated upon – to clearly paint Charles and the Royal Family as the wrongdoers.
The Al-Fayeds and meeting Dodi
In the show, Diana first meets Mohamed Al-Fayed at a racing event.
She is seated next to the Harrods owner, taking the place of the "big chief" the Queen, who decides to sit elsewhere. At the same time, she briefly meets his son Dodi - thinking nothing of it.
The reality is Diana met Al-Fayed through her stepmother Raine Spencer who was on the Harrods board and Diana met Dodi separately at a polo match with Charles years earlier in 1986.
In the fictional meeting, Mohamed mentions he is friends with Diana's father Earl Spencer and Countess Spencer.
Diana and Mohamed do not meet each other again until the end of the series – when he invites her and the boys on holiday with his family. The holiday will be screened in series six next year.
Filming has already begun and actress Elizabeth Debicki was pictured in a leopard print swimsuit similar to the one Diana wore - while on a Mediterranean cruise with her boyfriend Dodi - just weeks before her death.
The Crown's fifth season will be on Netflix from November 9.
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