Diana: Her New Life

Name: Diana: Her New Life
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Andrew Morton
ISBN: 9780743546492

Author: Andrew Morton

Narrator: Lynn Redgrave

Abridged: 1 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 12/01/1994

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Women

Synopsis

The publication in 1992 of Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story shook the British Royal family to its very foundations. Initially greeted with disbelief, as time passed, it became clear that the book was, as its title claimed, Diana's true story.

Diana's friends were hopeful that separation from Charles would bring Diana freedom to find happiness. But has it? With her marriage in limbo and her children only occasionally by her side, Diana's position in the royal family is one of increasing isolation. Diana: Her New Life chronicles the secret battles that have raged behind closed doors, and Diana's frustration as she tries to break free from the restrictions of her semi-detached royal life.

Again with unprecedented access to some of Diana's closest friends, Andrew Morton strips away the royal propaganda and reveals how Diana is learning to become a woman in her own right not a puppet of the palace, and shares Diana's private thoughts on retirement from public life, remarriage, the men in her life, and the grooming of Prince William for his future role.

About Andrew Morton

Andrew Morton is one of the world’s best-known biographers and a leading authority on modern celebrity and royalty. His groundbreaking 1992 biography of Diana, Princess of Wales—written with her full, though then secret, cooperation—changed the way the world looked at the British royal family. Since then, he has gone on to write New York Times and Sunday Times (UK) bestsellers on Monica Lewinsky, Madonna, David and Victoria Beckham, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The winner of numerous awards, he divides his time between London and Los Angeles.

About Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave's many awards include two Golden Globes, two Oscar nominations, three Tony nominations and for Talking Heads, the Drama Desk, Obie, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Her films include Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters, Kinsey and Shine. She has written three plays: Shakespeare for my Father, The Mandrake Root and Nightingale.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bronwyn on June 03, 2019

This is about diana, princess of Wales before and after her separation and divorce from the Prince of Wales as she builds a new life in the months before her untimely tragic death, and learns to manage a new life in her own and learns to accept the unhappy truth that her marriage was a farce, that h......more

Goodreads review by Sadiksha on July 30, 2015

I got inspired to read more of "biography" style novels from this novel onwards. The emotional upheaval , suffocation and confusion that Diana went through was heart-breaking, the book got me hooked to read more about Diana and other books written on her. I would consider reading this book again.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on August 07, 2010

I cried with my mum when we heard the news, the woman I had been brought up to admire and see as an icon for so many causes and pains. After she died, we read so many books, too many for me to even recall. She was fascinating in life and her death created a void for my generation as deaths of other......more

Goodreads review by Alexandra on September 25, 2023

Great info. Well researched. bad time-line...it jumped all over the place. At times it felt like a dumping of information.......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa on November 22, 2013

Diana: Her New Life book was a good biography and you found out many things at one does not normally know about royalty. I read this book at the same time as my mother because she was so interested in Princess Diana. It is a good biography that caused many conversations and would be good for mature......more