Nobody talks about this one. A 1986 anime biography of Princess Diana that treats her childhood with the quiet intensity of a period drama, watching her grow into the weight of an impossible future without ever breaking into spectacle or sentimentality. The show moves through her early years like it's documenting a real person becoming a symbol, and that restraint is what makes it land. You watch a girl understand, gradually and painfully, that her life was never going to be her own.

Diana Spencer is born in the English countryside, the daughter of a noble family, long before the world knows her as the Princess of Wales. This one-episode special traces her life from birth into her early teenage years. Despite her rank, her childhood is filled with ordinary experiences, such as caring for pets and attending school. Her early years bring their share of hardships too, and each experience helps form the young woman she will later become. Told as a gentle slice-of-life biography, the special is an unusual animated portrait of a real public figure's youth.