Diana: Her Life & Her Legacy - Rilegato

Anthony Holden has been recognized for twenty years as an authoritative commentator on the monarchy. He is the author of two bestselling biographies of Prince Charles, marking his thirtieth and his fortieth birthdays, respectively.

His acclaimed The Tarnished Crown was a prescient portrayal of the difficulties in the royal marriage. It was Holden, in that book, who coined the phrase "the People's Princess.

Holden was born in 1947, educated at Oundle and Oxford University, and began his career as a journalist in 1970. He has worked at various times in senior capacities for the Sunday Times, the Observer, The Times and The Express. His publications include translations of Greek poetry, a history of the Academy Awards, a biography of Tchaikovsky, translations of several opera librettos and a book o

Diana, Princess of Wales, moved the entire world. This book is dedicated to her memory. Inspired by the universal outpouring of grief, it is offered as a tribute to her grace, wit and beauty, and as testimony to her remarkable compassion. Here was a royal icon who stepped from the gilded picture frame to reach out and embrace the sick and the maimed, the lonely victims of war and of disease. And who herself knew grief: the desolation of a broken marriage and betrayal, the anguish of separation from her children, the fear of being pursued and knowing that her life would never be her own again.

There are more than 150 photographs and text by Anthony Holden illuminating the key moments of her thirty-six years of hope, despair, devotion and hope again.

Holden was a friend of the Princess and met privately with her shortly before the tragedy in Paris. He brings a uniquely informed perspective to this new account of her life. He writes of her desertion by her mother, her courtshi