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Diana -- eternally fascinating

1:03 PM Wed, Aug 29, 2007 | Permalink
Mary Ellen Botter

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Tina Brown’s version of the life of the Princess of Wales -- The Diana Chronicles (Random House Audio, abridged, 5 1/2 hours, $29.25) -- seems less gossip than eminently plausible. By marrying Prince Charles, Diana made her long-held fairy tale come true. It took her husband’s unswerving infidelity and the demands of her ceremonial life to wake her from her romantic dream.
Brown, the former editor-in-chief of the English gossip magazine Tatler, plumbs the princess’ psyche and finds a young woman of inadequate education, great emotional complexity and an unnerving brew of sweetness and meanness.
The author doesn’t just repeat the events of Diana's life and death (and in the abridgement, Brown spares us the bloody details of the fatal crash). Instead, she sheds light on what drove the young woman the world envied while Diana herself floundered in unhappiness.
A decade after her death, Diana still fascinates. Brown helps us understand why.

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