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The Diana Chronicles

By Tina Brown

Book cover
Book cover

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.

Currently in Tina Brown's blog

Diana's birthday
One of the things that makes me nuts in interviews for my book tour is the question: "Is Paris Hilton the Princess Diana of today?"
Welcome to "The Diana Chronicles" blog
From my Salon Authors page, I'll share the thoughts and impressions that have arisen since publication

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Tina Brown

"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 the 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 It is a tragi-comedy, a soap opera, a social commentary a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist."
– Helen Mirren, Academy Award®-winning actress

Photograph ©2007
Annie Leibovitz
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