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Title: Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows by Lady Colin Campbell ISBN: 0-312-08180-4 Publisher: St Martins Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.73 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: For its genre, WONDERFUL!
Comment: Normally I find books devoted to airing out the dirty, personal details of a person's life, especially a recently dead person, repellant. However, the silly, maudlin spectacle put on by tens of millions vicarious women (and many feminized men) during Diana's funeral week makes this book the perfect antidote. This book rips the facade off an unintelligent and self-centered brat princess so well loved throughout Britain, America and the globe. It is a sign of a decadent age that the lovely but empty-headed Princess Diana is the most beloved modern British royal while the manly Prince Philip, who had two ships shot out from under him in the fight against Adolph Hitler, is the most despised modern royal.
Rating: 4
Summary: I liked it....
Comment: I read most royalty books I can get my hands on and I like this one. Why? It's not sensationalized, it's frank. The author is a peripheral part of the circles of people of whom she speaks. She is fairly even handed, without "poor princessing" as much as most other Diana books do... and she has marked compassion for the dubiously-perceived Prince of Wales. Maybe she doesn't get everything right -- who can say for sure? -- but I have the feeling she is much RIGHTER than wrong in this chronicle of Diana, and I think we readers owe it to Charles and to Diana herself to attempt to see them in a balanced perspective.
This book was published in 1992 at the time of the Waleses de facto separation (they separated formally in December of that year) and five years previous to the former late princess's death in a car crash in Paris (August, 1997).
Rating: 4
Summary: Whaddya Want For (Under) A Buck?
Comment: This book, while not always pleasant, gives yet another dimension to the story of Charles and Diana. Before her death, Diana was perceived as a saint, and Charles, the devil. This book presents them as what they actually were: HUMAN.
Despite the book's title, this is NOT an "all Diana" book. There's quite a bit of text on Charles and the Royal Famliy.
The photo section is a strange mixture of what seems to be photos left over from old shoots (odd angles, the back of Di's head, or her face in shadow) as if the author could only afford second-rate photos. It's a very strange selection of (photo) subjects also. I wasn't sure why the author felt it was important to publish pictures of women Charles dated in the 70s.
I'll read everything about the royals I can get my hands on so even while I didn't totally agree with everything in this book, I did enjoy reading it. If you're a Di-aholic, you'll probably enjoy it too (especially for the price I just saw it listed for on Amazon!)
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Title: The Real Diana by Colin, Lady Campbell, Lady Colin Campbell ISBN: 0312193491 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Royal Duty by Paul Burrell ISBN: 0399151729 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 25 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Diana: Secrets & Lies by Nicholas Davies ISBN: 1932270213 Publisher: AMI Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death by Ann Rule ISBN: 0743202988 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Princess Diana: A True Fairy Tale by Kay Stammers ISBN: 0061071196 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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