Kristen Stewart gets engaged

American actor Kristen Stewart said on Tuesday she was engaged to her partner of two years, actor and writer Dylan Meyer.

Stewart, who in 2017, said she was bisexual, said Meyer had proposed to her. "We're marrying, we're totally gonna do it. I wanted to be proposed to, so I think I very distinctly carved out what I wanted and she nailed it," Stewart told SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show. "It was very cute. ... We're marrying, it's happening."

Stewart, 31, plays Britain's Princess Diana in the film Spencer, which arrives in movie theaters this week. She rose to global fame in the Twilight movies and dated her co-star, Robert Pattinson.

Her performance as Diana has won rave reviews, with many movie critics tipping her for a best actor Oscar nomination.

Stewart is the latest actor to play Diana, whose marriage to Britain's Prince Charles ended in scandal and divorce, before her death in a Paris car crash in 1997, after fleeing photographers.

The film focuses on the princess's decision to flee the pressures of the royal family and take control of her own life at a key juncture in the early 1990s. "She was the most famous woman in the world, she was the most photographed woman in the whole world," Stewart told journalists ahead of the premiere in Venice. 

"I have tasted a high level of that, but really kind of nowhere near that monumental, symbolic representation of an entire group of people, an entire country and the world," she said.

"I can relate but I don't think anyone can understand what that felt like," said Stewart, of the royal family's claustrophobic watch over Diana, who was expected to bend to protocol and was powerless to make her own decisions.

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