Anyone still interested in Tina Brown's book on Diana has a choice: wade through 542 pages of The Diana Chronicles at $27 from Doubleday - or £18.99 from Random House - or read The First Post's handy synopsis...
Just before she died, Princess Diana confided to Tina Brown over lunch that what she really wanted was to move to America and find a man with a Gulfstream jet. That man would be Teddy Forstman, who owns the Gulfstream factory. She fancied marrying him, and persuading him to run for President so she could be First Lady.
 Diana believed Prince Philip "hated" her. When he said: "Behave, my girl, or we'll take your title away", she replied that her own Spencer title was older than his, so there.
Diana did scheme to snare Charles, determined to trade her virginity for the throne.
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Camilla did not want to marry Prince Charles. Andrew Parker Bowles was the love of her life and Camilla wanted to remain his wife - and Charles's mistress.
Heart surgeon Hasnat Khan used to be smuggled into Kensington Palace in the back of a car - bringing with him Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Diana launched her fateful flirtation with Dodi Fayed simply to bate Prince Philip and the rest of 'The Firm', as she liked to call the Royal Family, relishing rumours of mixed-race pregnancy as extra punishment.
The picture editor of the Sun agreed to pay £300,000 for exclusive rights to photographs of Diana dying in the Paris car wreck.
The key to Diana's story, Brown concludes, is that she understood that "the aristocracy of exposure was all that counted now". She was in at the birth of the monster that ate her, and so was Brown.
FIRST POSTED JUNE 12, 2007 |
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