Diana

by Julie Burchill

In the early hours of?August 31, 1997, a spirited, compassionate, and beautiful woman--who just happened to be the most famous woman in the world--was killed?in a tunnel under the streets of Paris,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752825895
• ISBN13: 9780752825892
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Orion Books
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Different

This book was different from any othe Diana book I've ever read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The author had some very good insights and some hilariously wicked comments on the royal family. She attacks the English upper classes and reveal them to be an outdated establishment that cause problems with their children. Diana was a victim of this. May she rest in peace.

Well done Julie Birchill!!! Brilliant!!

I read Diana, by Julie Birchill, when I was vacationing in London. I was so thrilled to read Ms.Birchill's book, as it gave me an insight to Diana and her life that was just not available from any other royal biographer. Julie Birchill wove a marvelous trail of descriptives that held my interest throughout the book. This book was thought provoking and easily brought the reader through the most devasting of scenerios, soothing and shocking the reader at the same time. Words cannot describe my delight with this brilliant authors talent. M.J.Summers Clarion, Pennsylvania

The best book on Diana

Brilliant, angry, truthful, and full of love for Diana. Author nails the whole situation on the head, saying all you wish you had said. Those that know all one can know about Diana will learn something more here. A desert island book, the best book written or likely to be written about Diana.

A superb, evocative portrait of Diana and The Royal Family

An excellent read. DIANA is incisive,sympathetic, and gives the reader the most well-rounded description of The Queen, Prince Charles, and even Lady Fermoy's selfishness and coldness and how that stilted behavior affected this valiant young woman. No-one is spared the veil of illusion, yet at all times we feel for the beleagured young woman who had the best of intentions... The book shows us that glamour does not make up for love that is not forthcoming, and how valuable England's Rose truly was to all of us, and why. It is indeed a requiem, an "unfinished sympathy" to our revered Queen of Hearts. An accurate and worthwhile book.

A sharp skewering of the Royals and an Ode to Diana

Julie Burchill has spoken from her heart as she brings us this very personal love letter to and about the late Princess of Wales. Skewering the Royals and their 16 year reign of terror in the life of this young woman - Burchill's observations and insights should warm the heart and ease the sadness of anyone who admired or cared for Diana. The portraits drawn of the players in this tragedy are accurate and skillful. One comes away with a sense of righteous indignation at the petty and spiteful behavior of those who pretended to know, and moreover, be, better. Was Diana the Golden Girl she appeared to be - to a large extent what we saw, was indeed, what she was. As flawed as she was beautiful - Burchill is as honest about her shortcomings as she is her strengths. This is an intensely personal portrait of Diana by a writer who clearly adored her subject fiercely and thoroughly. We are shown the promises made and broken, the bad decisions and good intentions and the ineptness of a monarch and her court who should done more yet did little at all to care for the people closest to them. As simply a person she deserved better, as the mother of royal princes she deserved better - as the brightness that lit up the gloom of the House of Windsor she deserved better - Burchill reminds us she got nothing and worse. It may be that her destiny was to end in the car in the Alma Tunnel and that no force on earth could have stood in the path of her fate. Julie Burchill, in Diana, lets us believe, that her tragic end may not have been so inevitable - which makes the loss only sadder. For both its historical significance and its psychological insight, this is an important book.