Lady Diana Spencer's life gets a straightforward archival treatment here, from her childhood at Park House on the Sandringham estate through her engagement to Prince Charles, the 1981 wedding at St Paul's, and the unraveling of the marriage under constant press attention. Interviews with biographers, former staff, and journalists who covered the royal beat fill in details that official statements at the time left out, including the strain of life inside Kensington Palace and the calculated use of television, culminating in her 1995 Panorama interview about the state of her marriage. The film tracks her later work with landmine victims and AIDS patients as a turn toward a public role she built for herself outside the palace system, before closing on the 1997 Paris car crash and the outpouring of grief that followed in London. Archival news footage carries most of the film, with narration used mainly to place events in sequence rather than to argue a thesis about who she really was.