Exactly right. That's probably why this mess tanked and didn't even go straight to video, but bypassed that and went straight to late-night television, which makes it very easy to turn off especially after trying to get through that awful "bait & switch" titling, and that way nobody could say that saw this very poor quality, very disturbing, and very indecent screen-script.

But even if you cannot stand to get partway through this hackneyed jabble, you still are forced to see one goof after another.

For examples, since when would a real queen drive an automobile into the woods all by herself? Or since when would she even learn to drive? Real Queens don't go there. She would have secret service chauffeurs and guards or at least a stunt actress to steer the vehicle. But maybe again, they were mingling with the camera crew to make it look as though she wanted to be alone.

Another example would have to be when she is forced to deliver a public statement during the Royal Family's period of private grieving. Sure, Lady Di is beloved by all, so that makes it all the more difficult for everybody to deal with. They should have shown plenty of clips from happier times instead of those misleading sad last days.

And when she does go on camera, she's made to appear to be standing in front of the Royal Palace, but she's standing in a television studio in front of a drapery depicting the Royal Palace, and you just know that no Real Queen is going to try to get away with a stunt like that even though it's a lot safer for security guards and stunt Queens to secure themselves in a studio safely behind those "On Air" signs, which prevent trespassers from access.

But the worse fatal flaw of this entire nonsense would have to be some worthless casting director's sticking Mirren in the role of Defender of the Faith, when Mirren is anything but worthwhile. No Real Queen is going to allow a nonbeliever in the role to pass the Code, so that just goes to show how unathoritative this so-called "BioPic" really became right from the very start.

And we all know that Prince Phillip and Tony Blair would not have permitted any of this, so maybe Lady Camilla or one of those ex-children-in-law helped them to sneak it passed British censors, to export it to foreign television markets to embarrass Her Real Royal Majesty, who, yes, has done plenty of other good deeds which are neglected by this zero-rating mess.