Love Monday TV and 53 Degrees Global work on Princess Diana three-parter

Love Monday TV has partnered with 53 Degrees Global to produce Diana: The Unheard Truth, a documentary series about the late Diana Princess of Wales.

Kerene Barefield

Love Monday is the female-led production company behind feature documentary Her Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors and is led by exec producers Kerene Barefield and Naveed Chowdhary-Flatt.

53 Degrees Global is the producer of hit Netflix series The Royal House of Windsor and BAFTA-winning The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration.

Sophie Todd is series editing Diana: The Unheard Truth (working title), with Emily Hirst producing. Justin Frahm is director of photography and the project is fully funded by Rainmaker Films, led by Clay Pecorin, Russell Geyser and Zak Tanjeloff, and Plymouth Films, led by Kevin Weisberg.

This three-part docuseries sees Love Monday secure access to never-before-heard audio recordings of the princess to create a series that challenges the reductive narrative that has too often framed Diana as a victim of her circumstances.

During her lifetime, Diana told her own version of her full life story just once, in 1991, on secret taped conversations made with her close friend Dr James Colthurst. The recordings then formed the basis of the Andrew Morton book Diana: Her True Story. Now 35 years on from those recordings, Love Monday TV has partnered with Morton and Colthurst to secure full and exclusive access to the tapes.