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Summary: Just when you thought you knew all there was about Diana....
Review: Just when you think you knew everything there was to be known about someone as famous as Diana, along come's Morton's compelling book. It reminds me of "THE Autobiography of Jesus of Nazareth" by Richard G. Patton in which another figure we all think we know is shown in an entirely fresh and convincing light. Morton shows us the vulnerable Diana we all wept for. I wonder what Jesus would have made of present day media attention and what stories he could swap. The media don't fare well in Morton's study of Diana. Good or bad, this book will always be historically linked with "the people's Princess". I enjoyed it very much.
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Summary: DIANA WAS SHOWN AS HAVING FAULTS BUT CARING FOR OTHERS.
Review: DIANA, HER TRUE STORY. READ THE ENTIRE BOOK AND ENJOYED IT. SHE CAME TO LIFE AS A REAL PERSON, NOT JUST A STIFF-LIPPED ROYAL WITH TITLE AND RICHES. SHE HAD A GIFT TO ENJOY LIFE AND ENJOY PEOPLE IN WHATEVER STATUS THEY WERE. ALL WERE IMPORTANT TO HER.
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Summary: The most moving book Princess Diana fans will EVER read.
Review: The title, simple and honest, is enough to intrique anyone. I laughed, cried, and sighed as read about one of the most extraordinary people of this century, Princess Diana. It is told in an honest, upbeat way. Kudos to Andrew Morton for doing such a wonderful job. I read the orignal book prior to the Princess' death, and enjoyed this one much better. Adding the transcription of the tapes Diana herself "wrote" was an ingenuis idea. I enjoyed the childhood photographs, too. Truely the best autobiography of the decade.
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Summary: A Great tribute to Diana
Review: The Best and only Diana biograph (with beautiful photographs) in its truthful and objective views of our most loved and controversial girl of the century.
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Summary: Diana: Her True Story-In Her Own Words
Review: I found this author extremely informative and very sympathetic to Diana, Princess of Wales. I feel that Andrew Morton has done a brilliant job with the re-release of this book. The content was most shocking and very sad. But it seems to be true if you look at her life over the years. I have grown very much interested witht he monarchy, unfortunatly because of her death. This book also illustrates the life of Royalty, in lay terms. I found this to be helpful in understanding this way of life. I hope he continues to inform the public on the future of the Monarchy and any new developments in these peoples lives. Brilliant work!
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Summary: The best biography I've ever read.
Review: I liked Diana very much. She was the princess of my heart like the other people who thinks in that way and I became very sad when she died. When I read this book I understood her life very well and I just couldn't believe my eyes for reading an impossible life story. The writer Andrew Morton's language is not hard so every one can understand the book easily. I think he wrote a great book and if you are interested in Princess Diana or if you are a fan of her, you must read that book so you can perfectly understand her and her sad life.
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Summary: Andrew Morton
Review: I find this book both truthfully revised and open-minded. I'm sure Diana would love to see her own words...
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Summary: Shocking.
Review: One word can describe Andrew Morton's book: shocking. You recieve a detailed description of the late Princess of Wales' life that will shock you and make you sorrowful for the pain she suffered. The book tells of a life of self-hatred from Diana's bulimia to her many suicide attempts. Morton paints a very different portrait of the Princess' remarkable life, not the fairy tale often portrayed by the media. He takes you into a broken marriage with vivid scences of fighting and Charles off and on romance with Camilla Parker-Bowels. This is the book that rocked Britain and is a throughly good reading experience that you will not regret.
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Summary: GOOD READ BUT NOT ENTIRELY TRUTHFUL
Review: I first read this book when it came out in 1992. Like everyone else, I was shocked and blamed Prince Charles for the marriage falling apart.
Since she died, there's been a number of credible stories come out that shows Diana to be manipulative, emotionally immature, stubborn and just plain bizarre. While her devotion to her children is unquestionable, and her charity work obviously came right from her heart, there were too many other aspects of her character that were not so glossy.
I mean come on, if your wife was pregnant and threw herself down the stairs to get your attention, would you not seriously question her mental stability? Anyone who can cut themselves with a lemon peeler or smash themselves against a glass cabinet is obviously a few bricks short of a load and in serious need of help. When she did the Panorama interview in 1995, she declared that she felt "betrayed" when her former lover James Hewitt did a tell-all book.............uh, well didn't she do the exact same thing to her husband when she told Andrew Morton all the dirty details of their marriage?
While I despised Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles for their affair, I understand now (a decade later) why he would turn to her: for some NORMALCY in his life.
Be that as it may, the one fasinating thing about Diana is her uncanny ability to predict things. In this book, it tells of her conversations when she was young that she was going to marry someone "in the public eye". She also apparently predicted her father's stroke in 1975. But what was fasinating to read in 1992 was Diana's belief that "while she knows that William will one day be King, she is firm in her belief that she will never become Queen" and "I am performing my duty as Princess of Wales, but I can't see it for much longer than 15 years." As we all know, she was Princess of Wales for 16 years. She made these statements 6 years before she died.....
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Summary: Spin, from the Mistress thereof
Review: Andrew Morton's book, written in collusion with the late Diana, is a well-written, cleverly confected polemic designed to undo the very people who made her what she was (or, as some in the UK were wont to say, "After all, she's just a royal by injection"). Purportedly the daughter of a famous alcoholic (Lord Spencer), she exhibited all the classic symptoms of an adult child of an alcoholic; low self-esteem, poor boundaries, poor impulse control, chronic depression, a pattern of blaming others for her problems, etc. Of course, one can add on bulemia (from which she suffered before she married her poor husband), and other deep-seated psychiatric disorders. All this is clearly shown in the book to any critical reader. My daughter's godmother, the late Ouida Huxley, used to regale us with stories told her by one of the Queen's closest confidants, who herself witnessed how during the height of her omnipotence Diana would disparage her husband to his face, in front of the family, on his lack of charisma compared to her. She pulled cute pranks like screaming and rolling about on the floor when she didn't get what she wanted (in this particular case, to go to Majorca instead of Balmoral) in a fine impression of a grand mal epileptic seizure, in front of the Queen at a family meeting. For some reason (and it wasn't Camilla, who re-entered the scene only after all efforts at marital repair were exhausted), Diana felt as if the ungrateful royals needed to be paid back for her psychic pain, not realizing that the source of her suffering was in her own head. Andrew Morton's book is the result. It's as one-sided as an autobiography by a narcissist. Morton was either duped, or a willing collaborator in the tearing down of Britain's primary civic institution, the Monarchy. This work (if such it may be called) is about as accurate as Soviet propaganda. It is a fantasy woven from scraps of truth. If Diana had lived, and married the dreadful Dodie Fayed, she would have lost her titular "Princess" title, and reverted to merely the (alleged) daughter of an earl, and would have once again been "Lady Di". Dodie's dad was planning to lugubriously install the two love-birds in the Windsors' old place in the Bois de Boulogne. Eventually, no doubt, she would have tried out one of her famous emotionally wracking "turns" on Dodie (an Egyptian man, mind you) and would have infallibly been kicked out on her coutured posterior. During that time anyone who knew her, even from a distance, could see that Diana's life was on an inexorable and endless downward cycle (remember, even her brother, who so "courageously" dissed his own godmother, the Queen, on international television, refused to have Christmas dinner with D the last year of her life). Andrew Morton's book is a classic celebrity bio. Poor Diana. She was never happy, she would never be happy, and she was going to sow chaos and destruction wherever she went. Death, however, mercifully came for Diana before her life got even worse.
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