Diana
  • Published: 15 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241980705
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $28.00
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Diana

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25 Sep 2006
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15 Oct 2017
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Reissued with a new afterword for the 20th anniversary of Diana's death

Glamour. Duty. Tragedy: The Woman Behind the Princess.

Sarah Bradford delivers an authoritative and explosive study of the greatest icon of the twentieth century: Diana.

After more than a decade interviewing those closest to the Princess and her select circle, Sarah Bradford exposes the real Diana: the blighted childhood, the old-fashioned courtship which saw her capture the Prince of Wales, the damage caused by the spectre of Camilla Parker Bowles, through to the collapse of the royal marriage and Diana's final and complicated year as a single woman.

Diana paints an honest portrait of a woman riddled with contradictions and whose vulnerability and unique empathy with the suffering made her one of the most extraordinary figures of the modern age.
  • Published: 15 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241980705
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $28.00
Categories:

About the author

Sarah Bradford

Sarah Bradford is a historian and biographer. Her previous books include Cesare Borgia (1976), Disraeli (1982), winner of the New York Times Book of the Year, Princess Grace (1984), George VI (1989) and Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen (1996).

Also by Sarah Bradford

America's Queen
Lucrezia Borgia
Queen Elizabeth II
Cesare Borgia
George VI
Elizabeth
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Praise for Diana

Bradford has a real grasp of history and the ability to make it spark into new life

Sunday Telegraph

Diana is Sarah Bradford's excellent and authoritative new biography of the most extraordinary woman in recent history ... Sarah Bradford has set a high standard for the others to follow

Virginia Blackburn, Daily Express

You feel from this book that you know the woman as she probably was, and that is because, perhaps for the first time, a grown-up has written about her

Adam Nicolson, Evening Standard

A woman of intelligence and taste ... Bradford is an excellent writer who has produced a balanced and well-researched biography.

Philip Hensher, Spectator

A very sad story. Bradford tells it eloquently, but it's her admirable detachment that leaves one pitying all, not one, of the characters involved.

Antonia Fraser, Guardian Books of the Year

The definitive biography. In this authoritative account, Bradford paints a revealing, accurate portrait of a complex woman flawed and adored in equal measure.

Daily Telegraph

Readers will find themselves gripped by this gloriously gossipy account. Bradford is even-handed and unafraid.

Jeremy Lewis, Sunday Times Books of the Year