The Way We Were: Remembering Diana - Softcover

Burrell, Paul

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9780007252633: The Way We Were: Remembering Diana

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ISBN 10: 0007252633 ISBN 13: 9780007252633

Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment, 2007

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Paperback. Pub Date :2007-08-06 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS ENTERTAINMENT Paul Burrell pays tribute to Diana. Princess of Wales in this celebration of her life From the inside. he takes the reader into Kensington Palace and the. extraordinary life she led.Paul Burrell served Diana. Princess of Wales. as her faithful butler from 1987 until her death in 1997 He was much more than an employee:. he was her right-hand man. confidant and friend She described him as. the only man she ever trusted.In this remarkable and intimate book. Paul Burrell opens the door to Kensington Palace to provide a unique. visual tour Using previously unseen interior photographs. the reader is led inside the world of Princess Diana -. room-by -room. memory-by-memory.We learn of her Hollywood relationships; the true depth of her happiness with The One - Hasnat Khan; the first-h...

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About the Author:

Paul is married to Maria, and the couple live in Cheshire. They have two sons, Alexander and Nicholas.

From Publishers Weekly:

Princess Diana's butler presents his second book of recollections on the famous royal whose life fascinated the media and whose death bereaved countless strangers. Though early pages are forebodingly plain, Burrell moves from a self-conscious chronicle of the princess (and her friend the butler) to sincere, heartfelt reportage of Diana's bravery as she soldiers through life post-royal divorce and finds a new life's mission helping the helpless across the world. More to the point, Burrell gets dishy: one bittersweet chapter tells of the modest and brilliant heart surgeon whom Burrell insists was Diana's true love, while another examines the complex relationship between the princess and Fergie, the Duchess of York, with asides on the Queen Mother, the Queen and Charles. Much is made of Diana's love for her sons and her search for truths to live by, which Burrell believes propelled her to "an emotional coming-of-age" before the end of her brief life. Though there's nothing particularly revelatory here, Burrell's heavily-covered subject matter benefits from his obvious and genuine affection ("She was real. She was breathtakingly so, and it was the one quality that hit people between the eyes more than any other when they met her"), making this an endearing, if perhaps superfluous, testament.
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