![]() ![]() Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words is the closest we will ever come to her autobiography. In this fully revised edition of his groundbreaking biography, Morton considers Diana’s legacy and her relevance to the modern royal family.Īn icon in life and a legend in death, Diana continues to fascinate. Now, twenty-five years on, biographer Andrew Morton has revisited the secret tapes he and the late princess made to reveal startling new insights into her life and mind. Never before had a senior royal spoken in such a raw, unfiltered way about her unhappy marriage, her relationship with the Queen, her extraordinary life inside the House of Windsor, her hopes, her fears, and her dreams. ![]() Greeted initially with disbelief and ridicule, the #1 New York Times bestselling biography has become a unique literary classic, not just because of its explosive contents but also because of Diana’s intimate involvement in the publication. the breakdown of the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Many of those films and miniseries were critical failures, but only one was adapted from the biography Diana cooperated with: Diana: Her True Story, a 1993 miniseries starring Serena. When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. ![]()
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