Through all this, I also remember all the headlines about Princess Diana’s death. With the authority missing from all previous accounts, as well as remarkable new sources and firsthand accounts, acclaimed royal biographer Sarah Bradford delivers a complex and explosive study of one of the most popular figures of the twentieth century.ġ9 were very rough years: my parents divorced in the spring of 97 and my beloved grandfather passed away in January 98.

She also charts Diana’s profound commitment to her charities and her rare connection to and empathy with all those she met the struggle to find an identity after the separation from Charles and the final, complicated year as a single woman. Bradford examines Diana’s lovers and her relationships with her staff, friends, and family, as well as her children, husband, and the royal family. With exclusive access to those closest to Diana, Sarah Bradford now casts aside the gossip and lies and takes us to the very heart of the royal family to separate the myth from the truth of the Diana years.ĭiana follows the old-fashioned courtship that saw her captivate the Prince of Wales the transformation of an unworldly teenager into an emotionally demanding, but adoring, wife and mother the damage caused by the ever-present specter of Camilla Parker Bowles and the eventual collapse of a doomed marriage once hailed as the ultimate fairy tale. Yet throughout her brief life, Diana was plagued by rumor, innuendo, and scandal. From The New York Times bestselling author of America’s Queen-the definitive biography of Diana, Princess of Walesĭiana, Princess of Wales, is nothing less than an icon, remembered in death as vividly as she appeared in life.

Diana by sarah bradford