Directed by Ed Perkins for HBO, The Princess film uses audio and video footage from the archive to tell the story of Diana‘s experience in the public eye, of her ultimately doomed relationship with Prince Charles until her untimely death in 1997, aged just 36.
A trailer for the film was released on Wednesday, which will premiere on HBO and HBO MAX on August 13.
The beginning of the trailer shows Diana and Charles’ engagement interview, which became infamous after the Prince answered the question if he was in love with Diana with the phrase “whatever ‘in love’ means”.
The Prince of Wales is heard to say of his first impressions of the princess-to-be: “I remember thinking what a very cheerful, funny and attractive 16-year-old she was.
“I don’t know what you thought of me.”
Diana then answers the same question with “pretty amazing”.
The documentary captures the intense media attention surrounding the princess, including a scene where she puts her hand over a photographer’s lens.
At the end of the trailer, Charles tells a young Prince William who is peering through a video camera lens, “The people in there, look at them … captive,” as a sad Diana watches.
HBO said of the film: “Intensely emotional, The Princess is a deep-seated immersion into Diana’s life in the constant and often intrusive glare of the media spotlight.
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She was only 20 years old when she tied the knot with a 32-year-old Prince Charles at Westminster Abbey on July 29, 1981, and their first son Prince William arrived less than a year later on June 22, 1982.
Their second son Prince Harry was born on September 15, 1984.
Diana was tragically killed in a car accident in Paris on August 31, 1997, after being chased by paparazzi in her vehicle.