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Автор: Patrick Jephson
Издательство: HarperCollins
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Жанр произведения: Биографии и Мемуары
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isbn: 9780008260125
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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017

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      Source ISBN: 978-0-00-825929-7

      Ebook Edition © July 2017 ISBN: 9780008260125

      Version: 2017-07-17

      ‘The most indelible, authentic word-portrait ever painted of the People’s Princess’

      Daily Mail

      ‘Jephson’s revelations are important. They are a stark corrective to the baroque fantasies constructed around the Princess immediately after her death’

      Evening Standard

       For Mary Jo, with love and thanks

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       SEVEN Gameplay

       EIGHT Jump at Shadows

       NINE Hot and Cold

       TEN Roses

       ELEVEN Guns

       TWELVE Sphinx

       THIRTEEN Truth or Dare

       PART TWO – OUT

       FOURTEEN Horribilissimus

       FIFTEEN Payback

       SIXTEEN Solo

       SEVENTEEN Topple

       EIGHTEEN Plummet

       NINETEEN Under the Wire

       TWENTY Over the Hills

       Epilogue

       Picture Section

       Picture Credits

       Index

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

      You may sometimes wonder why Princess Diana still casts such a long shadow over Britain’s thousand-year-old ruling dynasty. Like me, you may welcome it as a gentle reminder that her story remains relevant, an enduring example of the good things royalty can achieve, as well as a warning of the price it can exact. Or, like some others, you may feel her shadow upon you as an irritation, since it points to the inconvenient reality of Diana’s popular and it seems permanent place among the most admired names of recent history. A few in this second group would have us believe that Diana and her admirers are classic examples of the modern fashion for emotional incontinence – a betrayal of the traditional British stiff upper lip: that in reality she was flawed and frail, a symbol of weakness not strength, and so whoever replaces her in the national shop window must now be more deserving of our interest and approval.

      Yet twenty years