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The Diana Chronicles

By: Tina Brown
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
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More than twenty years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy?

The Diana Chronicles parts the curtains on Diana's troubled time in the mysterious world of the Windsors, as she breaks out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect.

Knowing Diana personally, Tina Brown understands her world, understands its players and has-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself. Meet the formidable female cast and get to know the society they inhabit, as you never have before.

© Tina Brown 2007 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

 20th Century Entertainment & Celebrities Europe Great Britain Modern Politics & Activism Royalty Women Celebrity Funny

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Critic reviews

Filled with insider anecdotes and gleeful accounts of the Royal family’s dysfunction (spending every August in the freezing outpost of Balmoral for a start), it’s also the desperately sad tale of a young woman who wanted family love and support only to be left disillusioned and isolated but (thankfully) found great solace in her children.
Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet, lifts the expensive net curtains and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. It is a tragi-comedy, a soap opera, a social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist.
The Diana Chronicles is an enjoyable romp. There are funny moments and Brown in an astute observer of people. Tina Brown is the biographer the princess deserves.
One of the most well-researched insider books on Diana's life . . . Essential reading for anyone interested in how she became the people's princess, and the battles she endured to ensure her legacy.
Nothing comes close to Tina Brown's book for its tight grip on the dark human comedy that was Diana's life and death. Brown knows the ritual dances, the shouts and whispers of the tribes of Britain - the Sloanes, the paparazzi, the aristos, and the cocktail lounge lizards - better than anyone who has ever written this story, but she also has a perfect ear for the way ordinary people responded to the doomed Princess. The result is compulsively page-turning.
The Diana Chronicles is a blockbuster: a rollicking, page-turning, fast quipping, gripping romp of a read. It is the work of a seasoned, serious journalist who understands that just because a subject has a populist appeal does not mean that it has to get the dumb treatment
Tina Brown makes Diana as deeply fascinating as the great heroines of literature. She is magnificent at creating atmosphere.
Every previous Dianologist must now take a back seat. Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles is not a book on Diana. It is the book. It conveys better than anything I have ever read, the basic intelligence of its subject. The truly impressive thing about the book is its wisdom. It is full of good mots. It is a master. Ruthless, relentlessly inquisitive, it made me cheer to the rafters.
Authoritative and well researched, Tina Brown's book should become standard reading material about the People's Princess
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Very much enjoyed this book and very nicely told respectively enjoy this authors books one to read again

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wish Tina had done it herself as she has a great voice. Loved her other books when read with her voice. Such a shame as good story but I couldn’t get over the way the narrator said Diana

Terrible narrator-

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Easy to listen to,narrator excellent. A little updating needed but still very informative. Diana’s memory and legacy will go on for a very long time yet

Great book

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Enjoyable audio. interesting with some details I hadn't heard before. one of the good ones I'd say. recommend

interesting, enjoyable listening

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Really enjoyed this book. would recommend it to anyone who loved Diana. It was very interesting and I learned lots more about her death

Brilliant

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