Spencer Trailer is released: Kristen Stewart perfectly portrays tortured Princess Diana

The eagerly-anticipated trailer for Spencer has been released, showing Kristen Stewart depicting a tortured Princess Diana as she battles behind-the-scenes with the Royals. 

The film plays out the frosty turn in Diana and Prince Charles’ wedding and follows the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate, where Diana is seen doting on her sons while at battle with her in-laws.  

Opening with an already frosty turn on the Royal, the Queen is heard asking: ‘Is she here yet? Then she’s late’, while a speeding car is driven by Diana, who appears exasperated. 

Bracing herself for the holiday, Diana says: ‘Three days that’s it’, before she is told: ‘They’re getting quite serious about you’ and is seen headed into a room filled with the Royals. She is ordered: ‘Stand very still and smile a lot’. 

Kristen is then seen speaking to the young Harry, who asks: ‘Do you want to be the Queen?’, to which she simply replied: ‘I’ll be your mum’. 

She is told: ‘Diana, they can’t change, you have to change’. Charles then instructs: ‘You have to be able to do things you hate. There has to be two of you, the real one and the one they take pictures of. DIana – For the good of the country.’

A sequence of Diana’s anguish then plate out, and she is heard saying: ‘There’s no hope for me.’ 

Pained: The eagerly-anticipated trailer for Spencer has been released, showing Kristen Stewart depicting a tortured Princess Diana as she battles behind-the-scenes with the Royals

Beef: The film plays out the frosty turn in Diana and Prince Charles’ wedding and follows the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate, where Diana is seen doting on her sons while at battle with her in-laws

Earlier this month, Kristen revealed that she fell asleep to videos and interviews of Princess Diana in order to prepare for her role as the royal, admitting she’s spent so much time studying her that she ‘can’t stop thinking about her’.

The actress, 31, also told how she can relate to some of Diana’s vulnerabilities including the downsides of fame and the struggle with other people’s perceptions, noting that she had ‘tasted’ a ‘high level’ of what she went through. 

For her portrayal of Diana – who died in a car accident in 1997 – Kristen spent hours analysing Diana’s accent and studying every part of her life, leading her gain a deep admiration and respect for the People’s Princess.

Stern: She receives frosty stares from the members of the family 

She told The Sun: ‘She means a lot to me, but it’s all relatively new because I’m from LA and didn’t grow up in England. Before this, she was not something that was at the forefront of my mind, because I lived so far away from it all. Now I can’t stop thinking about her. 

‘I often wonder what she’d think about what’s going on in the world right now. To be honest, I’ve now consumed pretty much all there is to consume in terms of videos and interviews. I’ve watched everything that you could hear or see. I even go to sleep with it on.’ 

And it was through her extensive research that Kristen learned that she shares some of the same vulnerabilities as Diana amid the huge levels of fame they both experienced.

Pain: Diana’s turmoil plays out on  screen in the trailer

Noting that Diana was one of the most famous women in the world, Kristen, who at one point the highest-paid actress in the world, admitted she has merely ‘tasted’ a ‘high level’ of what the Princess experienced.

The Twilight star added however that it was ‘nowhere near’ the ‘monumental representation’ of an entire group of people that Diana was.

Reflecting on what she saw of Diana’s life, Kristen observed that Diana ‘wanted to control’ what other people had though about her ‘but couldn’t’, adding that this was something that ‘everyone’ experiences.

SPENCER will be released in UK & Irish cinemas on 5 November 2021 following its UK Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 7 October 2021

The whole family: Tension is rife throughout the trailer, which Kristen dominates