The Real Diana

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Summary: Very biased against the Princess!
Review: I enjoy reading every detail about Princess Diana I can get my hands on, good and bad, so I can get some idea of what this person was like. I have adored Diana since I was a young girl.

However, this book was very biased against Diana and basically does make anything positive written about Diana seem as though it was just written to please the Princess.

Also, she pretty much says that Diana was sleeping around long before Charles did, yet other books I've read indicate not only was he with Camilla, but also did cheat on Diana even around William's birth with a lady in Canada that he saw on and off even while he was just with Camilla.

I've seen some recent interviews, and other published books which actually cite NAMES of people who have nothing to gain now the Princess is dead, and dispute what this author has to say.

So it is fun gossip, albeit cruel, but take it with a grain of salt.

Also, I could not find documentation of Diana's abortion anywhere, and I would think by now more explicit details would have come out about it. This is the first and last I've heard of it and would really like to know if it is indeed true.

Rating:
Summary: Very biased against the Princess!
Review: I enjoy reading every detail about Princess Diana I can get my hands on, good and bad, so I can get some idea of what this person was like. I have adored Diana since I was a young girl.

However, this book was very biased against Diana and basically does make anything positive written about Diana seem as though it was just written to please the Princess.

Also, she pretty much says that Diana was sleeping around long before Charles did, yet other books I've read indicate not only was he with Camilla, but also did cheat on Diana even around William's birth with a lady in Canada that he saw on and off even while he was just with Camilla.

I've seen some recent interviews, and other published books which actually cite NAMES of people who have nothing to gain now the Princess is dead, and dispute what this author has to say.

So it is fun gossip, albeit cruel, but take it with a grain of salt.

Also, I could not find documentation of Diana's abortion anywhere, and I would think by now more explicit details would have come out about it. This is the first and last I've heard of it and would really like to know if it is indeed true.

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Summary: Life is too short to read this
Review: I felt I had to post a review even tho I haven't finished the book. Was doing some research on Lady Colin Campbell ne Georgie Ziadie who was born in Jamaica.

Reviewers who have made fun of her birth defect should be ashamed of themselves. The Adams apple appeared after she was given male hormones. She ran away from those doctors and discontinued medication. Surgery corrected her problem which her parents didn't know how to handle when she was born.

Reviews should only be about books and writing style. Not personal problems. There is no reason to be so cruel. This is not the place to discuss it.

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Summary: Have just started the book so don't have a rating
Review: I felt I had to post a review even tho I haven't finished the book. Was doing some research on Lady Colin Campbell ne Georgie Ziadie who was born in Jamaica.

Reviewers who have made fun of her birth defect should be ashamed of themselves. The Adams apple appeared after she was given male hormones. She ran away from those doctors and discontinued medication. Surgery corrected her problem which her parents didn't know how to handle when she was born.

Reviews should only be about books and writing style. Not personal problems. There is no reason to be so cruel. This is not the place to discuss it.

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Summary: Suspicious of the "Washington, DC" review by a reader
Review: I have read a lot of Diana books and this is by far the worst. It is such an unjustified trash that I put my Hardcover copy in the recyclables bin. "Lady" Colin Powell goes so far as accusing Diana overreacting to Wills's accident when the young Prince cracked his skull at school. Right there you know as the reader this woman has got a vendetta against Princess Diana. Diana wanting to stay at William's side in the hospital while he underwent an operation bothers Lady Powell !... The feeling I got from reading this book was one of intense unfairness. It seemed as though the author was desperate to gain the favor of the royal establisment, namely Prince Charles and his family.

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Summary: Life is too short to read this
Review: The content of Lady Campbell's book is disgraceful, the writing poor, and the publication questionable. She is relentlessly biased against the late Princess of Wales, and in this book, as in the TV appearances she makes as a self-styled "friend" of the late Princess, criticizes the Princess relentlessly, pettily, and baselessly. With friends like this, who needs enemies?

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Summary: Flawed antidote to the normal Diana hagiography
Review: Though this book is flawed due to the author's use of scores of unnamed sources, it paints a pretty ugly picture of Diana. Diana comes across as vengeful, immature, irrational, bullying and a little kooky. Interesting to those not knowledgeable of the millieu of the British aristocracy, the seeds of this disasterous marriage were planted in the 1950s. Diana's grandmother, Lady Fermoy, became part of the royal circle when she became, I believe, the Queen Mother's Lady of the Bedchamber or some office of similar antiquary antecedants. The Spencers became part of the Royal family's orbit with Diana able to scheme her way into a marriage with Prince Charles. Sadly, Diana was a poor fit. She was troubled tempermentally, probably due to the fact of belonging to a broken-up, dysfunctional family. Her selfish parents were of great damage to Lady Diana. Diana and Charles were poor fits as personalities. Diana was exuberant, urban and unintellectual. Charles is laid-back, intellectual and at heart a country gentleman who relishes the manly sports of the countryside. During the very brief courtship between Lady Diana and Prince Charles, Diana led Charles to believe that she enjoyed the outdoor sports he enjoyed. This was dishonest and did not serve either well in the long run of things. In the end, however, Prince Charles must be given much of the blame for a foolish marriage as he was a man of thirty and Diana was still a girl of nineteen. Much of the later parts of the book are tediously filled with vicarious stories of Princess Diana's bedroom romps, visits to various psychiatrists, gurus and even astrologers(the silly author seems to find astrologers to be serious people), and the more widely known stories of Diana's genuine desire to bring comfort to those not as fortunate as herself. Lady Campbell's style is catty, chatty and unscholarly. But she seems to treat the greatly flawed Princess honestly. She does not paint the portrait of a saint-to the dissatisfaction of millions of Diana worshippers.