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DIANA

Sarah Bradford is a historian and biographer. Her previous books include the New York Times bestsellers Americas Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen; Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy; Cesare Borgia; Disraeli; Princess Grace; George VI; and Splendours and Miseries: A Life of Sacheverell Sitwell. She is married to the Viscount Bangor and lives in London.

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Published in Penguin Books 2007

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List of Illustrations

1 Park House, where Lady Diana Spencer was born on 1 July 1961.

2 Dianas father, Johnnie, Viscount Althorp, with his bride-to-be, the Hon. Frances Roche, in 1954.

3 Dianas paternal grandmother, Lady Cynthia Hamilton (1892 1972).

4 Sarah Jennings, 1st Duchess of Marlborough.

5 The Spencers at Park House in 1972.

6 Diana as a child outside Park House.

7 Nine-year-old Diana goes to board at Riddlesworth Hall.

8 A pensive Lady Diana Spencer at the wedding of her eldest sister, Lady Sarah, to Neil McCorquodale in May 1980.

9 The 8th Earl Spencer and his second wife, Raine, in front of Althorp.

10 Lady Diana Spencer surrounded by press photographers outside her flat in Coleherne Court shortly before the announcement of her engagement to Princes Charles.

11 That dress: a buxom, newly engaged Lady Diana Spencer with Prince Charles and Princess Grace of Monaco at a gala at the London Guildhall.

12 Were all delighted: Charles and Diana posing with the Queen after the Privy Council granted the couple permission to marry.

13 The two women in Charless life: Camilla Parker Bowles and Lady Diana Spencer at Ludlow racecourse.

14 Prince Charles with another close woman friend Lady Tryon, known as Kanga, at the christening of her son, Anthony.

15 Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer attending a final wedding rehearsal at St Pauls.

16 The balcony kiss.

17 Wifely tenderness: Diana adjusts her husbands tie on arrival at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland.

18 Charles and Diana on their Balmoral honeymoon.

19 The Prince and Princess of Wales wave from Caernarvon Castle on their first public engagement, a three-day tour of Wales in October 1981.

20 Diana riding with the Queen at Sandringham.

21 A heavily pregnant Diana with the Queen watching polo at the Guards Polo Club, Windsor.

22 4 August 1982: Diana holds the newly christened Prince William Arthur Philip Louis.

23 Diana looking gaunt less than five months after Williams birth.

24 Australia, March 1983: the beginning of Di-mania.

25 The Prince and Princess of Wales leaving hospital with Henry Charles Albert David Prince Harry born on 15 September 1984.

26 June 1985: an apparently spontaneous moment of affection Charles kisses Diana after she presents him with a prize at a polo match in Cirencester.

27 The surprise Diana prepared for Charless thirty-seventh birthday: performing with Wayne Sleep at Covent Garden.

28 July 1986. Happy families: Diana and Charles pose with William and Harry at Highgrove.

29 June 1985: an angry row between Diana and Charles at a Windsor polo match.

30 1985: watching a polo match at Smiths Lawn with police bodyguard Barry Mannakee.

31 May 1987: Charles and Diana arrive at the Cannes Film Festival. Charles has just told her that Barry Mannakee had been killed in a motorcycle crash.

32 1987: The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Duchess of York and Diana at the Derby, Epsom.

33 Charles and Diana at the Saudi Experience, London, 1986. The strained relationship between the couple is all too evident.

34 August 1989: Diana and James Hewitt at the Inter Regimental Polo Championship.

35 Diana and William photographed with Dodi and Mohamed Al Fayed at a polo match in 1988.

36 June 1989: Charles and Diana with William and Harry prepare for a cycling trip in Tresco during their holiday in the Scilly Isles.

37 Diana returns to her old school, Riddlesworth Hall, and walks in the grounds with pupils and her former headmistress.

38 Diana and Charles at an Arab feast on their tour of the Gulf States in March 1989.

39 The notorious AIDS handshake that made the headlines.

40 Will Carling and Diana at Twickenham.

41 James Gilbey pictured post-Squidygate revelations.

42 Charles and Diana walking in Highgrove, 1989.

43 1 July 1990: Diana collects Charles from Cirencester Hospital, his arm in a sling after a polo accident.

44 Diana and William share a tender moment.

45 Brazil, April 1991: Diana visits a hostel for abandoned children, many of whom are HIV positive or suffering from AIDS.

46 India, February 1992: Diana visits Mianpur Old Age Welfare Centre and has her feet touched as a sign of respect.

47 Lech, Austria, 30 March 1992: Diana and Charles leave their skiing holiday after news of Earl Spencers death.

48 Public sympathy causes Diana to break down as Andrew Mortons book, Diana: Her True Story, is serialized.

49 Oliver Hoare, 1994, pictured as the news breaks that Diana has been making anonymous telephone calls to his house.

50 Diana and her sisters, Sarah and Jane, after a night out.

51 South Korea, November 1992. The Glums: Charles and Diana on their last official trip together.

52 Diana enjoys the freedom of Nevis her first holiday after her separation.

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