Actress Naomi Watts is to play Britain’s Princess Diana in a movie about the late royal’s final two years, filmmakers have announced.

Producers said Caught in Flight would focus on a period when Diana found “true personal happiness” shortly before her death in a 1997 car crash in Paris. Diana wed Charles in a glittering ceremony in 1981, but the unhappy marriage ended in 1996. Charles wed his long-time companion Camilla Parker-Bowles in 2005. Watts, who won widespread critical acclaim for her role as Betty Elms in the 2001 psychological thriller Mulholland Drive, said it was an honour to be able to play the “iconic role” of the woman known as the “People’s Princess”.