Diana: Her True Story, Fully Revised 25th Anniversary Edition (Thorndike Press Large Print Biographies & Memoirs Series)

I started reading this about two weeks before the Queen passed away, and had finished all of the additional material in her own words and started the book portion. The introduction is also updated. I can only say that it is heartbreaking in many ways because Diana was nothing more than pawn in the game of royalty - marry to produce an heir. Charles was calculating and cold. Camilla had no qualms about continuing her relationship with Charles while she was married, before he married Diana, and while they were both married. Diana knew all along and frankly there were two in the relationship - Charles & Camilla, while poor Diana stood at the sidelines being used, verbally abused, belittled, and forgotten by the royal family. It's no wonder she had emotional issues that carried over into physical issues. Her childhood, as well, was poor, filled with abandonment and lack of love. Thankfully, she recovered, grew, and moved on, able to keep her title as the Princess of Wales and the People's Princess. I'm astonished frankly. Now that Charles is on the throne, I can't help looking at him differently after reading this book. I'm sure after 25 years since her death, 17 years of his marriage to Camilla, they have moved on and hopefully faced their own regrets, actions, and are worthy of the positions they both now hold. The book is a must-read for those who want to know Diana on a more personal level. She was so young, naive, and vulnerable at the beginning. If they hadn't put her face on the tea towels, like she said, before the wedding, perhaps she could have found the strength not to walk to the altar. But then we wouldn't have William or Harry or their descendants either.

Big fan of the royals. Great insight in the life of Diana. Second time buying book.

An interesting read, updated perspective from the writer is appreciated, but where are the photos? In his updated foreword, Andrew Morton goes into detail about obtaining photos for the book, but there isn’t even one page of photos inside the copy I received. Not a pixel. What the heck? Diana’s story is timelessly fascinating, there’s lots of written detail here, but I’m feeling a bit cheated…

I was born in 1979, so there's a lot I remember about Princess Diana. I remember the divorce and all that being in the news and the covers of just about every magazine. My dad always spoke about her very highly and had so much respect for her and the charity work she did. I was almost 18 when the tv broke through the night of the accident when she died. Even though I never knew her or even met her, I cried a lot. We all did. My brother was away at college and asked me to record the funeral coverage on tv, which meant that I had to get up early around 4am to get a tape and hit record on the vcr (yes, it was that long ago). When I saw this book and learned how it was basically written in her words and was truly her story, I had to get it. I think it is so sad how the royal family treated her. There were a few times that I found myself crying while reading this, especially when it came to her feelings about herself and her eating disorder. She had so much class you could practically see it radiating from her. And she was so very pretty, especially as she got a little older and cut her hair. I can only hope that she was truly happy and content during the last week of her life. She definitely deserved all the happiness that life could bring her. But the fact that her life was cut short so suddenly and that she had to miss seeing her boys get married and become fathers just breaks my heart. I lost my dad when I was 18 and my mom just 5 years later, before I became a parent so I know exactly how her kids feel. It's not anything I would want for anyone to endure.This book was absolutely amazing and I learned so much about Diana and everything she went through and accomplished. Even though I don't have a high opinion of Charles, I still wish him the best and I hope he's happy with who he's with now. If you want to know more about the princess and the indelible mark she made throughout the world, I definitely recommend this book!! Reading the words and knowing that they are actually from her mouth makes it all the more special. Regardless of how much time has passed, I don't think that Diana will ever be forgotten. At least I hope that she's not. Five stars all the way!!!

To understand diana and to this woman was amazing the whole world loved her and to understand her life

This book has been around for years, and I had never had an interest to read it until recently-strangely as I started the book on holiday Her Majesty the Queen passed away. The book itself has some refreshed and updated parts and has had me gripped from the start. It’s interesting to hear it in Diana’s own words rather than another documentary, also history has proven to show she was correct about a great deal of what she suspected.

What happened when a sensitive, naive, shy young woman of 19 was plucked from her life by the most influential and feared family in Britain? Unsurprisingly, she became anxious, depressed and started to self-harm. The Palace’s response to this was ridicule and isolation. I guess nowadays that’s no surprise. What I found the really shocking in this book, is the depth that Prince Charles was involved with Camilla, sending her very specific eternal love tokens the week of his marriage to Diana... and that Diana was treated more like a courtesan by him, the Parker-Bowles’ set and the Palace Establishment. It’s a grim read, but a historical ‘must read’ book.

It is Diana's account of a troubled life and how really had she not married into the royal family she would have been better off of that I am certain. BUT both the WINDSORS and the SPENCERS had much to gain from allowing an impressionable teenager to marry a Royal.We can see fault on all sides, The Royals, Diana reaction toward them when she realized she had been used. To the SPENCERS also but at the end of the day the whole this was tragic for all.This will never happen again as we have seen the church has less power and those divorced have remarried like Charles and Camilla, Anne and others.Times have changed. William and Harry have married who they love. In the case of Catherine, she is more than suitable and has proved a perfect partner for her more cautious Prince. They will do well together and are in love and happy together.Harry deserves to be happy and I hope Meghan is the girl in the long term only time will tell. Meghan appears to be a good fit.Diana has made this all possible. Whether the WINSORS like it or not DIANA HAS SHAKEN THE CORE OF THE WINDSORS AND HAS LEFT HER MARK.I admire the QUEEN. She has done a fantastic job as the QUEEN of ENGLAND as did George V and George V1. She has followed on and stayed the course. She had the right character. William also has a steady character. AS for Diana well in 2006 when her divorce came through that was when she needed the steady hand of a Royal Police force because she was like a teenager let free and made fatal mistakes.

I bought this for kindle when it was first released but only got round to reading it on a recent holiday. It started off reasonably well, but as the book progressed several things started to annoy me. One that it was repetitive, two it was out of sync and three I started to think it was doing Princess Diana an injustice in that the more you read the more you felt she might have been unbalanced. I felt uncomfortable because she is not here to defend those parts of the book.. The book should surely have been in chronological order but it dapped around all over the show. I found this annoying and frustrating. I found the last sections of the book quite laborious. After reading the book I felt, whether rightly or wrongly, that Prince Charles had never loved her. I hope that is an incorrect assumption because if true it is no wonder the marriage was a failure and Diana would have suffered years of unhappiness. By the end of the page I personally felt a degree of sadness and depression and the words "what a waste" came to mind.

I am soooooo late to the party with this book !!! So much so, that this version is the 25th anniversary edition of its original release back in 1992. I do remember it being released and all the accompanying fuss and fits of the vapours over how scandalous it was, though !!There isn't really much to learn in it, coming at it so many years down the line now. Though I can well imagine a lot of it was a shocker if read back in that annus horribilis. It has some photos I'd never, ever seen before at the back, which were some lovely ones of Diana as a teenager, especially. Nice these were included. I had a chuckle too at her brother Charles' childhood nickname he gave her...Brian.....that did make me titter as I remember the Brian he compared her to.I was highly irritated that Morton has gone with American spellings throughout, though. That's pretty frightful.I was saddened to read her high opinion of Princess Margaret, who couldn't even be arsed to lower her head at her funeral....as with Sarah Bradford's book Prince Charles doesn't come out of this well.....I have no idea what she ever saw in him myself. I think he's a bloody pig the way he often behaves.Not really sure why he included the tape transcripts in this volume, as they ended up totally rehashed in the main bulk of the book itself, so it just ended up being quite repetitive. An odd decision to have made, to lay it out in this fashion.Debbie Humphries was written when the stolen baby's name was Abbie Humphries but that was it for mistakes, aside from the Americanisation of the language.....