The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown (2007, Hardcover)

Tina Brown is the queen of hype and this book is a good example of it. It contains nothing new...it is frustrating really because this woman (Tina) has had countless opportunities to do public good...and what does she do - annihilate the New Yorker and inundate us with journalistic filth.

Diana was a fashion icon...she was a bit of a nut....it is more interesting that people still buy books about her...she inspires the same morbid fascination Jackie Kennedy inspires I'm recognizing. Anyway, this book is a waste, nothing when compared to Sarah Bradford's latest Diana book.

how screwy am I right?? I read every book about Diana and Jackie..I have no life.

Although initially reluctant to read anything more on the subject of Princess Diana because I knew that it would stir up memories of her death, I can honestly say that I am very glad that I read this book. A page-turner right from the beginning, Ms. Brown offers her readers an engrossing & well-researched psychological study not only of Diana but also of all the people around her and the choices & events throughout her life that culminated in her untimely death. A former editor of The Tatler as well as an Oxford graduate, Ms. Brown's command of her subject as well as the English language is to say, at the very least, impressive. Couple this with her subject matter, and you've got a biography lover's dream book that is almost impossible to put down.
I do take exception with a previous reviewer who states that Diana was flawed because she couldn't keep the man she loved. And one thought the Dark Ages were over! The man had a mistress, honey!!! He also had about as a dysfunctional childhood as she did, if not worse. Why does this reflect only upon Diana? Obviously these were two deeply scarred people who both had inadequacies that contributed to the demise of their marriage. Obviously, Prince Charles' lust for Camilla Parker-Bowles was not the very least of them although the basis for this is totally beyond most people's conception.
In the final analysis, The Diana Chronicles is a superb biography that will keep your attention from beginning to end, provide you with plenty of information that you didn't know before about Charles & Diana and the people around them and make you bloody glad you never married into the Royal Family!

I would rate this book very good. Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of several high-powered magazines including the New Yorker, has created a very comprehensive biography of the Princess of Wales and the key persons in her life.

There were so many times I caught myself laughing out loud- sometimes to the point of tears in the way Ms. Brown describes the royal family.

Ms. Brown, not only a very witty and clever writer, is also quite capable of going into depth about the Spencer family history- a dynamic, dysfunctional and elite family in English history.

Being an inside journalist herself, Ms. Brown has astutely detailed the role of the reporters, Camilla Parker and the Royals in shaping the final destiny of the Princess of Wales.

The final chapters were difficult for me as the 10th anniversary of her death has just passed. After reading about a woman that lived such a controversial life, those final chapters of her death once again brought up the sorrow I felt the day she died in 1997.

This was the first biographical book I have read on the Princess of Wales and I am very pleased this was the book I chose.

I have not read this book as yet but am looking forward to doing so. I am still fascinated about anything to do with "Princess Diana" and when I saw this book, I just felt that I would like to read the story......

A very informative, absorbing read. With the sea of Diana books out there, this one seemed the most balanced.

This was a dropship item to my customer. I purchased this item to fill an order in which I was completely out.

I'm not that far into the book but so far I've read some tidbits that I've not read before regarding Diana's family. Its been an interesting read so far. Not so clinical as most books when reviewing her family's past.
Its interesting.

It was a book and therefore all I can say is that it arrived in a timely manner, it was in decent condition and was as it was described in the listing. I did think the postage charge was a little excessive.