The Diana Chronicles - Brown, Tina

Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she the people's princess, who electrified the world with her beauty & humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? The author knew Diana personally, understood her world, its players, and has far-reaching insights 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 you never have before. You will read about 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 died. Add Camilla Parker-Bowles, the ultimate ' other woman' into this combustible mix, and its no wonder Diana felt the need to break out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devasting effect; Trade Paperback, 481pp with Index.

Softcover. English. Century Books. 2007. ISBN: 9781846053122. 304 pp. Fair/hood, name inside. Book No: 64110