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In the early hours of 31 August 1997, a spirited, compassionate and beautiful woman, who just happened to be the most famous woman in the world, died as a result of a high-speed car chase through the streets of Paris, pursued by the paparazzi who so dominated her life.

How did this happen? How did a shy Sloane kindergarten teacher from the heart of England with no visible talents come to conquer the world in a manner which would make John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe look like little more than hometown heroes? The answers are sought in this book, part love Story, part document of our times.

Julie Burchill has written about and observed Diana with fascination for many years and first coined the phrase 'the People's Princess', which has become such a powerful shorthand slogan for all Diana stood for. Many books will be written about Diana, but the only precedent for this book will be Norman Mailer's Marilyn, reflecting both the author's love for her subject and the groundswell of popular anger against our ruling house that will invariably face the House of Windsor once the period of mourning is over. The Age Of Diana has not ended; rather, it is just beginning. Frozen forever at the height of her beauty and power by death, she will be the mourner at every royal wedding and the blushing bride at every Coronation. She will never be forgotten.

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Of all the books that emerged from the death of Princess Diana, this is the most intensely personal. If historians want to understand the depth of feeling--mourning, sentimental self-identification, feminist and republican and class rage--that overtook large parts of Britain for several weeks after her death, they could do worse than look here. What sometimes count for faults in Burchill's writing--failures of logic, overstatement, the pursuit of the smart-ass remark at the expense of overall control--are her ways of saying what someone needed to say, or expressions of a person transfixed by deep emotion. Burchill sees Diana as a woman betrayed by a using and adulterous husband and distorted from childhood by the false values and iniquity of a class, who grew into a person of real compassion and social usefulness, escaping self-destructive urges and eating disorders to settle into a mature sensuality. The randomness of the car crash in a Paris underpass is seen as all the more terrible because it cut short the productive personal development for the princess. This is not the only possible reading of the facts in the case, but it is a coherent one, memorably expressed. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk
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Born in Bristol in 1959, Julie Burchill is known for her controversial and acerbic style of journalism. At seventeen she went to work for the New Musical Express, at nineteen The Face, at twenty-four the Sunday Times. She has written for many magazines and national newspapers and is the author of eight previous books, including her autobiography, I Knew I Was Right, and her biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, which was published in 1998 to universal acclaim.

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  • PublisherOrion
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0752825895
  • ISBN 13 9780752825892
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages230
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