Characterising Diana

This chapter uses an interdisciplinary approach, looking through a film studies and telecinematic stylistics–informed lens at how Lady Diana Spencer&s;s character is portrayed in The Crown &s;s season 4. Characterisation is the process of building characters in texts – literary or multimodal. In stylistics, the use of figurative language in the process of characterisation has received minimal consideration. The purpose of this chapter is to continue the investigation of how figurative language affects the character-building process by focusing on visual metaphors and using a multimodal text: season 4 of The Crown (Morgan, 2020), with an emphasis on Diana&s;s character.