A fascinating new insight into the life of Diana Princess of Wales to mark the tenth anniversary of her death
Tina Brown was twenty-five when she became editor-in-chief of The Tatler, reviving the nearly defunct 270 year old magazine. She went on to become editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, and in 1992 she became the first female editor of The New Yorker. In 200, Tina Brown was awarded a C.B.E. She is married to Sir Harold Evans and has two children. They reside in New York.
"Ms. Brown is in an ideal position to sort out fact from factoid.
She casts a sophisticated and skeptical eye over the reams of
nonsense which have smothered the Diana myth. Her sophisticated
approach, a triumph of reporting, makes The Diana Chronicles a
candy feast of royal gossip to be consumed preferably at a single
sitting. It will bring the summer to a standstill. Every last quip
and quote, snip and sneer, joke and jape about this disastrous
marriage is recorded with elegance and interpreted with wise
understanding,"
*The New York Sun*
"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"
*Simon Schama*
"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., Sunday Telegraph
Tina Brown makes Diana as deeply fascinating as the great heroines
of literature. She is magnificent at creating atmosphere"
*Daily Express*
"Authoratative and well researched, Tina Brown's book should become
standard reading material about the People's Princess"
*Tatler*
"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"
*The Times*
Few modern women have been more adored, more loved, more photographed, and more written about than Princess Diana. Yet according to Brown, former editor in chief of Tatler magazine, "England's golden child" struggled with psychic scars from childhood emotional traumas that were impacted by life in the tabloid-driven fish bowl that is the British royal family. The author has brought her journalistic experience and extensive Rolodex of contacts to bear on the late princess; she reexamines the tumultuous life of the woman the world thought it knew. Brown's book depicts a Diana who is more than a porcelain saint; her collusions with the media proved to be her undoing. Her championing of the less-fortunate is juxtaposed with her treatment of her staff and stepmother alongside her mercurial relationships with her mother, her former sister-in-law, Fergie, and men, single and married. Along with her English accent and actress's timing, Rosalyn Landor brings a cadenced elegance to the reading that is further enhanced by her beautiful diction and rich dramatizations. Containing entertainment as well as some journalistic value, this gossipy tramp through a life picked over too much will be in demand; recommended to libraries with medium to large collections of pop culture and biography.-David Faucheux, Louisiana Audio Information & Reading Svc., Lafayette Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
"Ms. Brown is in an ideal position to sort out fact from factoid.
She casts a sophisticated and skeptical eye over the reams of
nonsense which have smothered the Diana myth. Her sophisticated
approach, a triumph of reporting, makes The Diana Chronicles a
candy feast of royal gossip to be consumed preferably at a single
sitting. It will bring the summer to a standstill. Every last quip
and quote, snip and sneer, joke and jape about this disastrous
marriage is recorded with elegance and interpreted with wise
understanding," * The New York Sun *
"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" *
Simon Schama *
"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., Sunday Telegraph Tina Brown
makes Diana as deeply fascinating as the great heroines of
literature. She is magnificent at creating atmosphere" * Daily
Express *
"Authoratative and well researched, Tina Brown's book should become
standard reading material about the People's Princess" * Tatler
*
"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" * The Times *
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