Movie review: Spencer is an absorbing character study of Princess Diana

When the story allows Kristen Stewart the time and space to fully inhabit the restlessly distressed Diana, the film comes alive.

Kristen Stewart in Spencer

★★★★☆

‘No one is above tradition,’ Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) is told at a crucial point in Spencer (12A), which unfolds over the three days of the British royal family’s Christmas holiday at Sandringham in the early 1990s.