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‘That’s a true friend!’: Shaniera reacts to Jemima Khan split with ‘The Crown’

Environmentalist activist and former cricketer Wasim Akram’s wife Shaniera Akram reacted to the news about Lady Diana’s close friend Jemima Goldsmith leaving the English Netflix show ‘The Crown’. She tweeted: “Now that’s a true friend!” Now that's a true friend! https://t.co/PajRjXA6wk — Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) November 9, 2021 Goldsmith told The Sunday Times that she pulled out after Diana’s story was not handled “as respectfully or compassionately” as she had hoped. “It was really important to me that the final years of my friend’s life be portrayed accurately and with compassion, as has not always happened in the past,” she added. “In 2019, Peter Morgan asked me to co-write on the fifth series of ‘The Crown’, particularly those episodes which concerned Princess Diana’s last years before she died,” she said. “After a great deal of thought, having never spoken publicly about any of this before, I decided to contribute.” “I requested that all my contributions be...