According to Morton, who allegedly spoke with Diana through secretly recorded tapes, Diana’s eating disorder began the week after she got engaged and continued for nearly a decade. The film doesn’t shy away from showing the sobering realities of Diana’s struggle with the eating disorder bulimia, showing graphic scenes of her bingeing and purging. Despite her unease during the royal family’s Christmas festivities, Diana continued to attend even after her separation from Charles, for the sake of their children, only skipping Christmas in 1995. She was also often overwhelmed by the rigid royal protocol for the holidays, which included numerous outfit changes, which is referenced memorably in the film. In a 2020 documentary about holidays with the royals at Sandringham, Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell said that she used to tell him that she was “crawling the walls” by the end of a Sandringham Christmas and “couldn’t wait to escape.” Sandringham was also the site of unhappy memories for Diana: According to Andrew Morton’s 1992 biography, Diana: Her True Story, during Christmas in 1982, she attempted suicide by throwing herself down the stairs at Sandringham because of Charles’ continued affair with Camilla. It turns out that weighing themselves before and after the Christmas dinner is a real tradition for the royal family and their guests that dates back to the 1900s, when King Edward VII wanted to ensure that people ate enough during the holidays.ĭiana’s discomfort during the holidays was also something that drew from real-life experiences. While the first two games in the series had a voiceless, nondescript player-character, Fable 3's main protagonist had a voice and a personality from the get-go, giving the game's narrative more emotional stakes, as the player is told and shown how their character directly links to the in-game political situation.In Spencer, when Diana arrives at Sandringham, she is weighed upon arrival, much to her unhappiness (an emotion that colors her entire time at Sandringham. One of the best aspects of Fable 3 was its pre-defined player-character. That being said, Fable 3 is still loved by a select few out there, and some fans would be happy to see the new Fable take a little inspiration from the series' third installment. The game's story started off extremely strong, but it threw itself hard off the rails in the second act, and the game's combat system wasn't nearly as complex or rewarding as its predecessors'. For the most part, Fable 3 is still a good action RPG, but there are some elements that fans of the series were disappointed with. The most recent mainline entry, Fable 3 released in 2010 for the Xbox 360, and the critical reception was a little divisive. In the eyes of most long-time fans, Fable 3 is not the best the series has to offer.
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