Review, buy British Royalty: Diana (Diana Princess of Wales), Death of a Princess (Diana Princess of Wales), Queen Victoria (Very Interesting People), Elizabeth and Philip: The Untold Story, The Life and Times of Henry VIII (Kings & Queens of England), Elizabeth I: Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals, John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant, King Stephen, White Bear: Robert Dudley, the Elizabethan Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth and Philip: 20 November 1947 (National Archives): 20 November 1947 (National Archives), Pretenders - Claimants to the Throne, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: A Celebration of a Life (Daily Telegraph), Weintraub Stanley : Victoria (Plume), Death by Fame: Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (Penguin Classic Biography), The Little Princesses: The Story of the Queen's Childhood, by Her Governess, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters, Queen of Roumania: the Life of Princess Marie, Grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, Elizabeth I and Her World: In Public and in Private, The People's King: The True Story of the Abdication

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Review Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Diana (Diana Princess of Wales)

Diana (Diana Princess of Wales) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Authors

Julie Burchill

Publication date: 1998-06-08
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: ~~£20.00~~
Price: £3.75

Review Diana (Diana Princess of Wales) / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:

Of all the books that came out of the death of Princess Diana, this is perhaps the most enduring, because the most intensely personal. If historians want to understand the depth of feeling-mourning, sentimental self-identification, feminist and republican and class rage-that overtook large parts of Britain for several weeks, they could do vastly worse than look here. What sometimes count for faults in Burchill's writing-failures of logic, overstatement, the pursuit of the smart-ass remark at the expense of overall control-are here either ways of saying what someone needed to say, or expressions of a whole person transfixed by deep emotion. She sees Diana as a woman betrayed by a using and adulterous husband, and distorted from childhood by the false values and iniquity of a class, who won through to a real compassion and social usefulness, and who escaped self-destructive urges and eating disorders to settle into a mature sensuality. The death in a Paris underpass is seen as all the more terrible because random, gratuitous and the cutting short of productive personal development. This is not the only possible reading of the facts in the case, but it is a coherent one, memorably expressed. -Roz Kaveney.

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Review Elizabeth and Philip: 20 November 1947 (National Archives): 20 November 1947 (National Archives) / The National Archives:

Review Pretenders - Claimants to the Throne / Constable:

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Review Death by Fame: Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria / Constable:

Review Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (Penguin Classic Biography) / Penguin Books Ltd:

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Review Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters / University of California Press:

Review Queen of Roumania: the Life of Princess Marie, Grand-daughter of Queen Victoria / Eland Publishing Ltd:

Review Elizabeth I and Her World: In Public and in Private / Thames & Hudson Ltd:

Review The People's King: The True Story of the Abdication / Allen Lane: