Kristen Stewart is the spitting image of Princess Diana with the late royal’s iconic tartan blazer in new glimpse at biopic Spencer

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Kristen Stewart is the spitting image of the late Princess Diana in the latest glimpse of the royal biopic Spencer.

In a new promotional shot for the film the Twilight actress, 30, perfectly replicates the Princess of Wales’ stunning gaze while sporting a tartan blazer that became known as one of her most iconic looks.

Filming for Spencer has been underway for several weeks in Germany, with the film set to depict the late royal in a dramatised version of a ‘critical’ weekend in the early 1990s, when Diana decided that her marriage to Prince Charles wasn’t working.

Like twins! Kristen Stewart is the spitting image of the late Princess Diana in the latest glimpse of the royal biopic Spencer

The image shows Kristen softly smiling into the camera along with her signature head tilt, sporting a cream polo neck jumper and tartan blazer.

It was a look famously worn by Diana while she paid a visit to Portsmouth in 1989, meeting the town’s mayor and residents at Eastney Community Centre.Beautiful: In a promotional shot for the film the actress replicates the Princess of Wales' stunning gaze while sporting a tartan blazer similar to one worn by Diana in 1989 (pictured)

The image also offers a telling hint about the film’s setting, as Kristen’s Diana is still wearing her eye-catching blue engagement ring, along with oversized pearl earrings.

Spencer will follow the breakdown of her high-profile, 15-year marriage to Prince Charles and is primarily being filmed at the Schloss Marquardt in Potsdam – a castle which is doubling as Sandringham Estate.

The story is said to take place over three days during one of Diana’s final Christmases at the House of Windsor in their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England in 1991.

Speaking on True Royalty TV‘s The Royal Beat, Robert said: ‘I don’t even think she was there that weekend. She wasn’t even at Sandringham, on this supposed weekend.

‘The film will suggest this is where the decision was made to divorce, but she never made that decision. I didn’t think she was at Sandringham after 1990 and this was set in 1991.’

Ingrid added: ‘The film is based on three days at Sandringham, and the period that it is based on, Diana wasn’t going to Sandringham anymore.’  Way back when: It was revealed in June 2020 that Kristen would depict the late royal in a film which dramatises a 'critical' weekend in the early 1990s (Diana pictured with Prince Harry in 1993)

Their comments follows widespread criticism of Netflix drama The Crown, which saw politicians, experts and friends of the Royal Family call for a disclaimer to warn viewers that the show twists the truth.

Friends of close senior royals including Prince Charles even went so far as to accuse it of ‘trolling on a Hollywood budget’.