In Popular Culture
Janvrin was portrayed by Roger Allam in Stephen Frears' The Queen (2006) starring Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren. The film, which deals with the immediate aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, inaccurately portrays Janvrin, then Deputy Private Secretary to the Sovereign, as Private Secretary (or at least heavily implies as much, though it is never explicitly said), an office to which he would only be appointed two years after the events depicted in the film. Apparently this was due to the fact that Robert Fellowes, then the Private Secretary, was an in-law of the deceased Diana and this would present complications for the film script.
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