Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist. -Academy Award(R) Winning Actress Helen Mirren Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she the people's princess, who electrified the world with her beauty and ...
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Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist. -Academy Award(R) Winning Actress Helen Mirren Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she the people's princess, who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, England's glossiest gossip magazine; Vanity Fair; and The New Yorker could possibly give us the truth. Tina knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself. In The Diana Chronicles, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them: Diana's sexually charged mother, her scheming grandmother, the stepmother she hated but finally came to terms with, and bad-girl Fergie, her sister-in-law, who concealed wounds of her own. Most formidable of them all was her mother-in-law, the Queen, whose admiration Diana sought till the day she died. Add Camilla Parker-Bowles, the ultimate other woman into this combustible mix, and it's no wonder that Diana broke out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect. From the Hardcover edition.
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Tina Brown may get a lot of flak for publishing this book on the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death. Ignore it. she has done a first rate job of teasing out the truth, as far as she was able to establish it, and has delivered a book, which is totally even handed. No one is beyond her criticism including her subject but at the same time she manages to point out the good characteristics of nearly all the players in this almost 20 year old soap opera. She writes well and the narrative clips along at a good pace. Hard to put down
ElectraKizz
Jul 5, 2007
Don't waste your money...
...I'm glad I didn't, I borrowed it from a friend. I don't normally read biographies but I had always like Princess Diana. There is nothing new in this book, pretty much everything you would have already read or heard about on tv. And the author, in my opinion, came off a little snippy and superior at times in her discriptions and thinly veiled opinions of Diana. I skimmed many a chapter and was thoroughly disappointed.
