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FRONTLINE presents a report on  the media frenzy which engulfed Princess Diana in her final years and the complicated relationship between Diana and the press

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The Princess and the Press

The day Princess Diana died in Paris, her brother, Earl Spencer, blamed the media for her death. FRONTLINE examines how the Royal Family's relationship with the British press, once governed by unwritten rules of privacy, evolved into the media circus that surrounded Princess Diana in her final years.

published nov. 1997

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