“Absurd and completely fabricated”, that’s how paparazzi Mario Brenna described the way in which The Crown evoked the context behind the famous photo of the kiss between Diana of Wales and Dodi Al-Fayed, which he took during the summer of 1997 and sold for around HRK 250,000. pounds sterling, which is equivalent to 300 thousand current dollars.

According to the portal Los 40, the intimate scene between the princess and the director, played by Elizabeth Debicki and Khalid Abdalla, is well portrayed in itself, but not all the previous events that led the then 40-year-old to get the historical picture.

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Mario Brenne enters the story of The Crown in the second episode of the sixth season. His character has been misrepresented as “The Hunter” or “The Assassin” due to his skills in getting the “right shot”.

However, according to Hush magazine, the photographer considers the biggest mistake of the series to be the claim that Mohamed Al-Fayed called him to announce the romance between his son Dodi and Lady Di, in an attempt to motivate them both to get married.

That would not be true, as Brenne assured the New York Times that she traveled to Sardinia every year and that on August 1, 1997, she became aware of the presence of the People’s Princess on the Jonikal, the Al-Fayed family yacht. was always in the port of the Italian city.

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In addition to being angry about the lack of veracity in the scenes from the series and the fact that the production did not contact him, the Italian assured that the famous photo and the money he acquired at the time not only brought him fame, but also helped him solve his personal and family financial problems , as reported by Vanity Fair.

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