Princess Diana film poster put up at crash site

A poster for the new ‘Diana’ movie has sparked outrage after it was put up near to where the late Princess died.

A close friend of Princess Diana has branded the advertising campaign for the biopic starring Naomi Watts ”despicable” after the sign was placed next to the opening of the tunnel, Pont de L’Alma, in Paris, where the royal was involved in a horrific car crash in 1997.

Speaking to the MailOnline, Rosa Monckton, who was considered one of the Princess’ most trusted confidantes, said: ”I really don’t have any words to describe how I feel about this cynical and shameless attempt to publicize a film that should never have been made.

”To have made a film so speculative and as this is disgusting enough, but to then advertise it on the spot at which she died is despicable.

”I cannot imagine that any company could stoop so low. It is a terrible intrusion into her memory, not to mention the lives of her sons, whose feelings are often forgotten in these stories.

”I would expect them to take it down right away.”

Diana – the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry – was killed on August 31 at the age of 36 along with her lover Dodi Fayed after her drunken chauffeur, Henri Paul, tried to outrun paparazzi through the Parisian tunnel.

The new ‘Diana’ movie opened in cinemas last weekend and has received heavy criticisms from the British public.