The Crown has finally reached its Princess Diana years. On Sunday, Netflix will debut the fourth season of the royal, Emmy-winning series, featuring newcomer Emma Corrin as the late princess as she enters the House of Windsor and becomes a global sensation. Early critics have given the season glowing reviews, with VF’s own Sonia Saraiya attributing the show’s new luster to Diana’s unfolding storyline and Corrin’s transfixing performance—a vulnerable, pitch-perfect portrait of a cultural icon. 

The new season is also the first in a long, slow wave of Di-centric content, soon to be followed by a taped Princess Diana Broadway musical, hitting Netflix next year; a Pablo Larrain–helmed film starring Kristen Stewart; and a feature documentary made up of archival footage of the People’s Princess, set to hit theaters in 2022. But if you wrap this season of The Crown craving an instant deep dive into Princess Diana lore, here are a few recommendations for what to watch, read, and listen to next.

WATCH 

The National Geographic documentary, available to stream on Netflix and Disney+, is exactly as the title describes: an overview of Diana’s upbringing and calamitous public life, narrated by the princess herself. The audio is culled from secret interviews Diana did with journalist Andrew Morton, who went on to write an explosive, best-selling biography about her. (More on that if you scroll a bit more.) 

In 2017—two decades after Diana’s death—Prince William and Prince Harry sat down for a documentary about their mother, offering a rare glimpse into their private lives. Diana, available to watch on HBO Max, is a sweet journey through their adolescence, with the pair swapping childhood memories and sharing never-before-seen photos and videos of Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997. At the time, William was 15 and Harry was 12.

Like the previous two documentaries, this PBS doc was also released in 2017, timed to the 20-year anniversary of her death. Packed with archival footage and old video interviews, Her Story paints a deeply human portrait of the late royal, featuring refreshing clips of the princess speaking unguardedly about how she always viewed herself as a rebel. 

This BBC documentary examines the week following Diana’s death, tracing the public’s shock and despair. It recounts the national mood toward the monarchy, noting how outraged the British people were by Queen Elizabeth II’s slow response to acknowledging the outpouring of grief over the princess’s death, and how she ultimately won back approval with a respectful, well-timed bow at Diana’s funeral. 

Available to rent on iTunes, Amazon, and more. 

This is a slight tangent, but—like 7 Days, the Oscar-winning 2006 drama The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears and written by Peter Morgan, creator of The Crown, homed in on a crucial period for the monarchy. It tells the story from Queen Elizabeth’s (played by Helen Mirren) perspective, showing how she handled the crisis and managed to earn the public’s trust after an initially bungled, callous response. 

READ

This is the first place to start in the world of Diana biographies. In the ’90s, the princess conducted a series of secret interviews with journalist Andrew Morton, allowing him to use those interviews for his biography Diana—Her True Story. When the book was originally published in 1992, it caused a stir, thanks to Morton’s explosive anecdotes about the princess’s dissolving marriage, Prince Charles’s affair with Camilla, and her struggles within “the Firm,” as she called them. Morton has since revised and reissued the book, including more stories and edited transcripts of his conversations with the princess. 

Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair (hello!) and the New Yorker, penned this sharp biography in 2007, drawing from more than 250 interviews with friends and associates of the late princess. Brown was also friends with Diana, making her an authoritative voice on the stories told within the book’s pages. As critics noted at the time of its release, it’s a more stylish and snarky take on the young royal’s life than the dozens of other biographies out there, making it unique among tomes about the princess’s life and influence. 

Author Hilary Mantel’s 2017 essay for The Guardian about the anniversary of Princess Diana’s death is a poetic, clear-eyed piece of writing that captures both the magic and sadness of Diana’s legacy. 

LISTEN

The fascinating history podcast, hosted by journalists Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall, is all about debunking and reassessing events that have been misremembered over time. Their latest series is a multi-episode look at Diana’s life, tracing her lonely, upper-class childhood, her sensational public life, and her tormented private one. 

Hobbes and Marshall are exhaustive in their research and analysis, with Hobbes combing through Diana biographies (Morton’s and Brown’s are in heavy rotation—and heavily critiqued) and discussing stories that have since been airbrushed out of the collective consciousness, like when the then 28-year-old princess allegedly pushed her elderly stepmother, Raine Spencer, down a flight of stairs after years of pent-up frustration. The point isn’t to tear down the hagiographic veil that has been lifted around Diana’s legacy, but rather to gently pull it back, remembering her for the human she was in her short, surreal life. 

Available to listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify.  

This article has been updated.

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