Dimensions
130 x 198 x 20mm
In the early hours of 31 August 1997, a spirited, compassionate and beautiful woman, who just happened to be the most famous woman in the world, died as a result of a high-speed car chase through the streets of Paris, pursued by the paparazzi who so dominated her life.
How did this happen? How did a shy Sloane kindergarten teacher from the heart of England with no visible talents come to conquer the world in a manner which would make John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe look like little more than home-town heroes? The answers are sought in this book, part love story, part document of our times.
Julie Burchill has written about and observed Diana with fascination for many years and first coined the phrase "the People's Princess" which has become such a powerful shorthand slogan for all Diana stood for. Reflecting the author's love for her subject and the groundswell of popular anger against the ruling house that will invariable face the House of Windsor once the mourning period is over, this book captures the essence of a princess frozen forever at the height of her beauty and power by death and who will be the mourner at every royal weddibng and the blushing bride at every Coronation. She will never be forgotten.
