Diana's Diary: An Intimate Portrait of the Princess of Wales

by Andrew Morton

The life of the Princess of Wales based on interviews with those closest to her. Details of her beauty routine, her diet, how she relaxed and her likes and dislikes.

Genres: Nonfiction, British Literature, Biography Memoir, Biography

120 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

Andrew David Morton (born 1953) is one of the world's best-known biographers and a leading authority on modern celebrity. His groundbreaking biography Diana: Her True Story was a #1 New York Times bestseller, as was Monica's Story, an authorized biography of Monica Lewinsky, and Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography. The winner of numerous awards, including Author of the Year, his other New York Times bestsellers include unauthorized biographies of Madonna and Angelina Jolie, as well as William & Catherine: Their Story. A former British Fleet Street tabloid journalist,he studied history at the University of Sussex. He lives in London.

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Reviews

[Elma Voogdt · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book “Diana’s Diary” dates from 1990. The author Andrew Morton, who would later become best known with the book “Diana’s own story”, gives a glimpse into Diana’s life in the first book. Her first ten years as Princess of Wales. When everything seemed to be going well between the Prince and Princess of Wales.

That is also good to notice in the way of writing, only words of praise about how Diana and Charles treated each other and that there was real love between them… We know better now…..

The only new information you’ll find in this book was about Princess Diana’s facial cleansing and makeup routine. The downside is that Andrew Morton passes so many names with titles, which makes it look messy. You have to keep looking for those names why and what exactly they did in Diana’s life. In addition, I did not find the book really easy to read, I have read a faster book by Andrew Morton …. Probably also because of the aforementioned waterfall of people in the book ….

Although (for me at least) we don’t get much new information about Diana’s daily life, this book is definitely worth reading for the stunning color photos of her. It is therefore a book that every Diana enthusiast wants to have in his collection or probably already has.

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was written before we lost Diana and parts of it are very sugar coated. Camilla, whom we now know never left the picture but was wrecking the marriage all along, was not mentioned until page 73. Most of what was written was what we thought at the time, but with hindsight it all changed of course.
While we do get new (to me, anyway) information on Diana's day to day life this book is worth the price for the stunning color photos of her.
All in all, my basic rule that you can never go wrong with ANYTHING of Diana, this book does not disappoint. I would HIGHLY recommend it to any Diana fan.

[AnnOlene Bourgeois · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good