Princess Diana biographer says accuracy of 'The Crown' scenes left him 'shaken' - GMA

Morton wrote his 1992 bestselling publication with the practice of the Princess of Wales, who sent him audio recordings truthful that helium could archer her story.

"When you spot Diana talking, you're truly seeing what happened, and she's utilizing galore of the words which she sent to maine done portion recordings," Morton told "Good Morning America." "It near maine breathless, and it took maine backmost each those years."

He continued, "I don't accidental this precise often, but I was shaken."

Morton said helium was asked to consult connected the occurrence that featured his collaboration with Diana.

He said the publication writers' attraction to item included asking him what colour the wallpaper was successful his daughter's bedroom, which besides served arsenic his bureau astatine the time.

This play of "The Crown," a fictionalized amusement that depicts the down the scenes lives of Britain's royal family from the 1950s onward, focuses connected the family's modern history, including the marital troubles betwixt Diana and King Charles III, past the Prince of Wales.

The mates officially divorced successful 1996, conscionable 4 years aft Morton's publication was published.

Morton said watching the amusement has fixed him caller position connected however Diana whitethorn person been feeling down the scenes.

"What I didn't recognize astatine the clip was her consciousness of isolation, her consciousness of despair wrong the royal system," helium said of the precocious princess.

This season, successful a first, Netflix added a disclaimer to its trailer for "The Crown" amid disapproval from some, including histrion Judi Dench, who accused the amusement of "crude sensationalism" and said she disquieted galore viewers of the amusement "may instrumentality its mentation of past arsenic being wholly true."

The disclaimer added by Netflix reads, "Inspired by existent events, this fictional dramatisation tells the communicative of Queen Elizabeth II and the governmental and idiosyncratic events that shaped her reign."

The palace has not commented connected the caller play of "The Crown."

The caller play of the amusement premiered conscionable 2 months aft the decease of Queen Elizabeth II, who died connected Sept. 8 astatine the property of 96.

"I deliberation the publication is simply a implicit representation of Her Majesty," Morton said. "She was lone 25 erstwhile she came to the throne and she became the CEO of Great Britain, Inc., and it was a tremendous tsunami of work that threatened to overwhelm her."

Morton said the publication charts the queen's travel of navigating the work she faced, portion besides being a parent and wife.

"I anticipation that readers travel distant with the quality being. She's a woman, a grandmother, a large grandmother," helium said. "She has a compelling communicative and hers has been a compelling journey, and we're each bittersweet that she's gone."