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The imagined narrative is a fruitful way to think about the stories of DianaвЂ™s life she never got to tell herself. It lingers on the emotions we know she must have felt brewing for ages-like her struggle with bulimia and the suicide attempts that first became public in Andrew MortonвЂ™s 1992 book, Diana: Her True Story, and the engulfing sadness she felt about Camilla Parker-Bowles that she later hinted at when she spoke to Martin Bashir in 1995-and packs them all into a single weekend, aestheticizing her trauma in a lush yet claustrophobic setting. None of this actually happened, of course, but Spencer uses the Christmas holidays at Sandringham in 1991 as a set piece to depict 10 years of accumulated frustration and pain. The garment reappears throughout the film, becoming a symbol for her longing for safety, her regret, and the way her maiden name could encapsulate an innocent, unbridled version of herself. She finds herself on a winding road, in need of assistance, when she spots a weatherworn scarecrow in the distance, and takes its jacket, which once belonged to her father. In the Times, royal correspondent Roya Nikkhah pointed out that she likely would have no issues navigating to the estate where she spent her childhood and visited occasionally until her death, but the scene served as an invitation to suspend my disbelief for a few hours. In its earliest minutes, a flustered Princess Diana gets lost on her way to Sandringham in December. To fill in that gap, the film relies on informed speculation, telegraphing its intentions in a brief epigraph: вЂњA Fable From a True Tragedy.вЂќ Still, StewartвЂ™s embodiment of the famous woman is convincing enough that it did take a bit of vigilance to remember at a recent screening that I was dealing with a work of art.

Already the press was speculating that her relationship with Prince Charles would soon end-a People cover devoted to their 10th anniversary that summer called their marriage a вЂњ painful fakeвЂќ-and in December 1992, the couple would announce their separation.

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Instead, the filmвЂ™s narrative centers on a series of decisions Diana must have been making at the time as she traveled around England. Though Spencer, the buzzy biopic starring Kristen Stewart as a trapped, haunted Diana which opens today, is set in that very specific month and year, these arenвЂ™t the types of events director Pablo LarraГn brings to life onscreen. The news stories from December 1991 show her attending a fundraiser for the fourth annual World AIDS Day, taking Prince Harry and Prince William to a show at Royal Albert Hall, and visiting Glasgow to see a medical research center.

When looking back on Princess DianaвЂ™s precisely documented life, itвЂ™s fairly easy to figure out what she was up to on any given day.

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