Face it, the royals are a turn on!

IT’S EASY to get fooledand emotionally invested in the choreographed vulnerability of the royal characters in the latest series of The Crown on Netflix. And then there’s the greatest of them all, Diana – coquettish and charming, while also an expert in the dark arts of manipulation and creating the narrative.

At least that’s what she did with writer Andrew Morton for his book, Diana: Her True Story. The late princess provided Morton with tape recordings that told of her suicide attempts, her eating disorder and her sense of abandonment and betrayal in her unhappy and loveless marriage to Charles.

More than 1.1 million British people watched The Crown this week, plus no doubt hundreds of thousands in Ireland, most of whom would have no truck with monarchy. Love ’em or hate ’em, they’re so interesting.