Ten years ago a car crashed in a Paris underpass and shockingly the woman who had become perhaps the most famous person in the world was dead. The national mourning that followed bordered on hysteria. But who was Diana Princess of Wales Since her death innumerable books about her have appeared which can largely be divided into hagiography or hatchet-job.
This book is neither written by an American and therefore without the inevitable emotional bias of a British writer and a profoundly serious and respected biographer at that it drawn on original interviews with over 150 people who were close to the princess many of whom had never spoken before. It remains the first truly objective considered and above all compassionate account of Diana's whole life.