Diana

In the early hours of 31 August 1997, a spirited, compassionate and beautiful woman, who just happened to be the most famous woman in the world, died as a result of a high-speed car chase through the streets of Paris, pursued by the paparazzi who so dominated her life.

How did this happen? How did a shy Sloane kindergarten teacher from the heart of England with no visible talents come to conquer the world in a manner which would make John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe look like little more than hometown heroes? The answers are sought in this book, part love Story, part document of our times.

Julie Burchill has written about and observed Diana with fascination for many years and first coined the phrase 'the People's Princess', which has become such a powerful shorthand slogan for all Diana stood for. Many books will be written about Diana, but the only precedent for this book will be Norman Mailer's Marilyn, reflecting both the author's love for her subject and the groundswell of popular anger against our ruling house that will invariably face the House of Windsor once the period of mourning is over. The Age Of Diana has not ended; rather, it is just beginning. Frozen forever at the height of her beauty and power by death, she will be the mourner at every royal wedding and the blushing bride at every Coronation. She will never be forgotten.