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The Real Diana

By: Lady Colin Campbell
Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
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Who was the real Diana? What was it like to be so privileged yet so anguished, so beloved yet so self-loathing, so spoiled yet so despairing? The Princess of Wales was all these things--far more complicated, conflicted, and intriguing a person than the wildly disparate saint or lunatic she is frequently portrayed to be.

Royal insider Lady Colin Campbell sets the record straight on many of the most controversial aspects of Diana's turbulent life: how Charles and Diana's engagement came to pass, though it seemed ill-advised to those closest to both of them; what their honeymoon was really like; the truth behind Diana's bulimia, her widely reported suicide attempts, and her obsession with Camilla Parker Bowles; Diana's search for love and fulfillment with numerous men before, during, and after her marriage; her brilliant manipulations of the press; and her relationship with Dodi Fayed.

Lady Colin Campbell's New York Times bestselling biography Diana in Private was the first to expose the truth about Diana and her troubled marriage. In The Real Diana, she reveals that the reason she knew so much about what went on behind the palace gates was because Diana herself was the source. Drawing upon these confidences--as well as on conversations with countless people who knew Diana and with Diana herself in the final years of her life--Lady Colin Campbell combines true insight with true compassion to bring us the most intimate and revealing portrait of the Princess of Wales that we will ever have.©2004 Lady Colin Campbell (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd Politics & Activism Royalty Marriage Thought-Provoking
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This is by far the best and most honest book about the late Princess of Wales. Lady Colin Campbell has produced a fantastic read with respect to the Royal Family and sympathetic handling of the late Princess of Wales’ struggles and illnesses that she overcame. Lady C depicts the Princess’s qualities as well as her flaws in an educated, well written, fair and ho nonsense way I thoroughly recommend this book. A thousand times better and truer than the other authors. No comparison! The detailed analysis of the tragic accident in Paris has been better explained by Lady Colin Campbell than both the French and English authorities. Recently out on audiobooks and I am sad to have finished it as it was so good.

So well researched and well documented

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I really enjoyed this book. I like the fact it was written through the eyes of someone who knew her, warts and all.

A great listen

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Whilst I accept Diana was flawed - as all humans are, Lady C is a relentless and somewhat bitchy critic. Every positive remark is undermined by flowery cattiness as she airs Diana’s personal life in graphic terms. Why write such a book? Where is her feminist heart? She uses the same 2 or 3 gossipy sources frequently one of whom ‘can’t be named’. She writes at length about Diana’s mental illness but vilifies her for it. This kind of person I imagine is rife in the aristocratic and royal world which is precisely why Diana didn’t fit in.

The Writer is the Queen of Back-handed compliments

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I liked the openness and all sides explained this lady’s books really hold there own I wish she had more of her books on here straight, talking and openness and respectful😊

Loved this book

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I enjoyed the book from the beginning to the end . The book has been written in a way for the reader/listener to understand in the first instance without the need to go back to check . Very good . I shall listen again to a Lady C book

The easy going voice

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