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    <body><![CDATA[Shut up.<br/><br/>Brown's work starts out with such promise.  She offers an insightful look at not only the development of Diana from small, shy child to media mogul, but also the changing face of the British press and media from the late 60s onwards.  This well-written discussion lasts for the fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4560364">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Dianna Chronicles, by Tina Brown.  A. Narrated by Rosalyn Landor, provided by Books on Tape, and downloaded from Audible.<br/>This is a book memoralizing dianna ten years after her death.  Tina tells the story of Dianna and Charles meeting, of the things that led up to the decision that she was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43082682">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[How could another book, and a 482 page book at that, on Diana possibly be entertaining or shed more light on the subject? Well, Tina Brown manages to do just that. Not only are the Diana Chronicles entertaining and very readable it begins by shedding a new light on Diana and the entire social climat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75223971">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It took a while, but I finally finished this long book this morning.  I did thoroughly enjoy this well-written, well-researched book.  I think you do need to be a Princess Diana fan to read Ms. Brown's book.  The author shows a lot of sympathy for Diana.  A lot of the information I already knew from...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33441001">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Of all the books that have been written about the late Princess of Wales, this is probably one of the fairest, most balanced, least sentimental, and least hysterical.  Which is kind of surprising since you might imagine, at first glance, that the book would be primarily dishy trash.  There's enough ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24163985">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Diana Chronicles]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist.&quot;<br/> <br/><strong>&#8211;Academy Award</strong>®<strong> Winning Actress Helen Mirren<br/><br/>Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she &#8220;the people&#8217;s princess,&#8221; who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy?<br/></strong><br/>Only Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of <em>Tatler</em>, England&#8217;s glossiest gossip magazine; <em>Vanity Fair</em>; and <em>The New Yorker </em>could possibly give us the truth. Tina knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself.<br/><br/>In The Diana Chronicles, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them:   Diana's sexually charged mother, her scheming grandmother, the stepmother she hated but finally came to terms with, and bad-girl Fergie, her sister-in-law, who concealed wounds of her own.  Most formidable of them all was her mother-in-law, the Queen, whose admiration Diana sought till the day she died.  Add Camilla Parker-Bowles, the ultimate &quot;other woman&quot; into this combustible mix, and it's no wonder that Diana broke out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect.  ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Warts and all, and it's about time. This is a compassionate, but honest, look at Diana Spencer. The gloves-off telling of life inside the royal family is very interesting, and helps show the other side of what she had to deal with when joining &quot;The Firm&quot;. <br/><br/>I love biographies, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10977027">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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