Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words: The Sunday Times Number-One Bestseller Hardcover – 17 Jun. 2017

I really loved this book, it explained a lot of things that I was unaware of at the time. I thought Diana was a breath of fresh air for the royal family and couldn't understand exactly what the problem was. I learned after time what the true story was as did everyone else. This book just fills in those bits that had been overlooked or were unknown.

I am old enough to remember Diana and the impact she had on the world but I never read this book when it came out. Although I knew her story and watched that sensational interview with Martin Bashir, watching The Crown intrigued me enough to buy this book. There has been such uproar from people saying The Crown is just not true that I wanted to know more. Andrew Morton has updated the book to reflect the fact that he can be honest now that Diana is dead - at the time of original publication, Diana had to deny any collaboration with him. I feel that Andrew Morton has written her story in her own words without sensationalising and without intent to do harm. Prince Charles and Camilla do not come out of this story with much honour or credit but Prince Charles effectively admitted that Diana told the truth when she said 'There were three people in this marriage. - it was a bit crowded'. It's a sad account of how an innocent but well meaning 20 year old was chosen to be Charles' bride because she ticked all the boxes (including that she was a virgin) and then was cast aside once she had produced the heir and the spare for future King. Charles should never have married her - but having married her, he should have had the decency to properly end his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles who was herself married with two children.

This book is quite interesting especially with the fact that it has been constructed using Princess Diana's own words clearly describing the good and bad times she had with the British Royal Monarchy during her life. This book is very big and heavy so weak handed users shouldn't bother buying but nevertheless the photographic illustrations are very clear and the text and sentence are well constructed providing a fascinating true story of the late great Princess of Wales, who is now well expected by the public as 'the people's princess'. Her honesty, care and love especially to her children as well as her strong belief in the well beings of other people of poor low class gave her the well earned respect of the general public. I got this book as a christmas present for my relative who is very curious about Diana and she likes reading this. Although I could of got a kindle version of this at the good price, having a physical book is better as you do not have to reply on using a computer or the interest to read, especially when machines and the web are prone to malfunction occasionally. Great book that is well worth a read of people very curious on this topic.

Glad I waited 30 years to read this book. I'm nearly 70 I can look back to August 1980 and just say we all lived in a Mills and Boon fantasy. Except for divorce and abortion, attitudes were stuck in the Victorian era. Marriage was everything, even if it was to unfaithful, violent and unsuitable partners. Diana's marriage was an example of this - it didn't matter, you had a ring on your finger. You'd made it. With the collapse of her marriage and her TV interview, girls began to question the institution of marriage and put their needs first. It all started with that TV interview and this book. I just wish we had the internet and social media in 1980. A well written and absorbing book of a hopefully bygone era.

The book is ok if you don't know much about Diana. However, the author seems to have a small vocabulary. In addition he keeps repeating what you already had read several times in the book.It seems to me that the book is looking to get sympathy for Diana. Nevertheless, after you read it sympathy is the last feeling you'll have. I finished the book thinking she was a truly pathetic person who was right to feel intellectually inferior. She dropped out of high school, therefore indeed she was intellectually inferior. Not the right role model you want for your children.She wondered how the world could "love" her but not those living with her. Well, the world only saw her smiling face in the news; those living with her saw her true self which wasn't a nice picture.Her "connection" to the poor sounds extremely superficial for somebody who wouldn't go anywhere without her Dior handbags and who would chose an over €300k engagement ring.I could carry on but I'd leave that to the next reader who soon will find out how superficial, unintellectual, insecure and pathetic person she was.All the time when reading this book, I wished Diana was a fictional character, the one you love to hate in some books. Disappointedly she was real!