Shortly afterwards I was to learn the unvarnished truth. Commenting on a joint tour of Brazil that year, the Sunday Mirror described them as presenting a ‘united front to the world’, their closeness sending a ‘shiver of excitement’ around the massed media ranks. The very idea that their ten-year marriage was in dire trouble was unthinkable – even to the notoriously imaginative tabloid press. In the popular imagination, the Prince and Princess, blessed with two young sons, Princes William and Harry, were the glamorous and sympathetic face of the House of Windsor. Her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981 was described as a ‘fairytale’ by the Archbishop of Canterbury. She had been in the limelight all of her adult life. In 1991 Princess Diana was approaching 30. Hollywood producers would dismiss the script as much too far-fetched a beautiful but desperate princess, an unknown writer, an amateur go-between and a book that would change the Princess’s life forever. ExcerptĮven at a distance of 25 years, it is a scarcely believable story. Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words is the closest we will ever come to her autobiography. In this fully revised edition of his groundbreaking biography, Morton considers Diana’s legacy and her relevance to the modern royal family.Īn icon in life and a legend in death, Diana continues to fascinate. Now, twenty-five years on, biographer Andrew Morton has revisited the secret tapes he and the late princess made to reveal startling new insights into her life and mind. Never before had a senior royal spoken in such a raw, unfiltered way about her unhappy marriage, her relationship with the Queen, her extraordinary life inside the House of Windsor, her hopes, her fears, and her dreams. Greeted initially with disbelief and ridicule, the #1 New York Times bestselling biography has become a unique literary classic, not just because of its explosive contents but also because of Diana’s intimate involvement in the publication. When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. The sensational biography of Princess Diana, written with her cooperation and now featuring exclusive new material to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death.
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