Keira Knightley Never Considered Diana Movie Link.

Keira Knightley Never Considered Diana Movie Link....

Keira Knightley only realised there was a connection between her new movie The Duchess and Diana, Princess Of Wales after the film was criticised for using footage of the late royal in a promo.

In the new film, Knightley plays Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, a distant relation of Diana - who died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

Bosses behind the picture have come under fire for using shots of the late Princess in a trailer for the film and emphasising the link between the lead character and her modern-day descendant.

But Knightley insists she didn't know anything about the Diana connection when making the movie - and admits she doesn't even know that much about the late royal because she was so young when she died.

She says, "I was only 11 when Diana died, so I don't really know much about her story. It didn't even occur to me to portray Georgiana as Diana, as I wasn't conscious of the similarities, and nobody suggested I should. I was always Georgiana, never Diana".