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 already brought down a monarchy?
Tina Brown knew Diana personally, knows her world, understands her players, and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the queen herself.
In The Diana Chronicles, you will meet a formidable female cast and get to know the society they inhabit...as youi never have before. Diana's sexually-charged mother, her subtly scheming grandmother, the stepmother she hated but eventually came to understand and a terrifying trio of in-laws and relations: Fergie, the force of nature whose life was full of its own unacknowledged pathos, Princess Margaret, the fading glamour girl, the implacable Queen Mother and, more formidable than all of them, her mother-in-law, the Queen, whose admiration Diana sought until the day she dies. Add Camilla Parker-Bowles, the ultimate 'other woman' into this combustible mix, and it's no wonder that Diana fekt the need to break out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect.
'Intensely well researched and an unputdownable read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet, lifts the expensive net curtains and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. It is a tragi-comedy, a soap-opera, a social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist'.
- Academy Award Winning Actress Helen Mirren
(as written in the book)
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