Lady," Forstmann tells Tina.

What's 'new' about the book is that it tells the truth: Diana was a vain, scheming, immature arch-manipulator who brought misery to all around her, including the Royals and her own sons.

Oddly, Di-besotted New York television stations would send limos to fetch me to their studios as a Brit hack prepared to say just that while Tina, whose own ambitious ways were cruelly described in Judy Bachrach's biog Tina and Harry Come to America, was buttering her up.

I'd be sitting in the backroom at Elaine's, swapping Fleet Street tales with Harry, while Tina was doing the glitter-thing in the receiving line. Timing, as Tina knows so well, is all.