- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: W&N; First Edition edition (1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 029782418X
- ISBN-13: 978-0297824183
- Product Dimensions: 25 x 20.3 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 975 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Well Worth the Read,
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This review is from: Diana (Diana Princess of Wales) (Hardcover)
Julie Burchill's book "Diana" is one of the most honest, get to the point, in your face books I have ever read. Not only does she paint Diana, Princess of Wales as an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances, she gives us some insight into what her life must have really been like in the Palace. It consist of, what I consider, very passionate writing. She expresses her opinions very strongly and quite adequately. You can "feel" her words in ways that many other books attempt to but fail. Diana struck out at getting the love she so needed from the man she adored and married but in the process received the love and adoration of the world. I've read just about every book on the subject of Diana and this is by far one of my absolute favorites and one of the most thought provoking. You do not have to agree with the general feelings towards the Royal Windsor Family or appreciate the sometimes strong language to enjoy what has to be one of the most exceptional books written on Diana. Julie Burchill has does a great job in expressing the feelings many people, the world over, have felt towards this lovely, real life, Fairy Tale Princess, who unfortunately, left this world too soon.
3.0 out of 5 stars
3 stars - for the pictures, this is one mean spirited book,
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This review is from: DIANA (Paperback)
I've got this book in the hardback edition and I've got to say this is one mean spirited book. Ms. Burchill writes for The Guardian, a liberal left leaning British paper and she is obviously what the British would call a strong republican. It appears to me that this book is an attack on the Monarchy from the first page to the last. Princess Diana herself would probably not have been spared if she'd gone along with the system. As with all the other Diana books you get some good photos but this one is a little too mean otherwise.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Feminist Defender of Diana against the House of Windsor,
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This review is from: Diana (Diana Princess of Wales) (Hardcover)
This book is partly a biography of Diana's life, with some color photographs, but mostly a commentary upon Diana's life in the context of the House of Windsor. The author is sympathetic to Diana's plight as an innocent girl who married for love, but found out too late that Prince Charles would not give up his mistress Camilla. The author severely castigates Prince Charles and Camilla, and the Queen and the entire House of Windsor, as callous hypocrites and morally bankrupt pretenders to the throne and the Church of England. The author concedes that Diana had some problems and weaknesses of her own, but overwhelmingly takes the side of Diana against the House of Windsor, and scathingly considers Prince Charles to be a third-rate character unworthy to be king. The author has a great way with words, sometimes angry, sometimes mocking, and sometimes wickedly funny, with a few obscenities interspersed, in her attacks upon Prince Charles and Camilla, and the House of Windsor, although sometimes written in a subtle way that would probably only be understood by someone very familiar with Diana's life and British history of the past twenty years. If the reader has a similar love for Diana, and a similar very low opinion of Prince Charles and Camilla and the House of Windsor, the book would probably be enjoyable to the reader.
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