At the time of publication, Buckingham Palace denied any cooperation between the princess and Morton, [1] but it was later revealed that Diana was the main source behind the book's content. Tyler Christopher's tragic life: General Hospital star who was married to Eva Longoria admitted he 'flatlined' three times in the grips of alcohol addiction. Just as Martin Bashir, the television journalist who later interviewed the Princess, was to discover, subterfuge was the only way to circumvent an ever-vigilant royal system. And, shortly before her father Earl Spencer died, she sent him a note asking for photos for the book from the family’s albums. My daughter was in night nappies when she started going to school and I WON'T apologise for it - no one.

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Diana publicly denied any involvement: “The princess did not cooperate with the book ‘in any way whatsoever,’ a palace official said,” according to The Guardian, after the Sunday Times serialization.In this fully revised edition of his groundbreaking biography, Morton considers Diana’s legacy and her relevance to the modern royal family. Time and again she emphasized her profound sense of destiny: a belief that she would never become Queen but that she had been singled out for a special role. She felt somehow that if she was able to explain her story to the people, her people, they could truly understand her before it was too late.

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Her newly appointed private secretary, Patrick Jephson, described the atmosphere as ‘like watching a slowly spreading pool of blood seeping from under a locked door’. Indeed, she was so anxious not to be seen as paranoid or foolish, as she had so often been told she was by her husband’s friends, that she showed us several letters and postcards from Mrs Parker Bowles to Prince Charles to prove that she was not imagining their relationship. Andrew Morton himself wrote a very detailed account of how, exactly, the book came to be – which he shared after Princess Diana’s death in 1997. Within her small circle of intimate friends there was sufficient alarm at her current state of mind for several to fear for Diana’s safety.

The priority was to produce a book that reflected her personality accurately, with sympathy and authenticity. After writing books about life inside the various palaces, the royal family’s wealth and a biography of the Duchess of York, as well as other works, I had got to know a number of friends and royal staff reasonably well and thought I had a fair idea of what was going on behind the wrought-iron royal gates. She knew in her heart that it was her fate to travel along a road where the monarchy was secondary to her true vocation. The book Diana: Her True Story caused quite a stir when it came out in 1992 with damning revelations about the Princess of Wales and how she felt she’d been treated by the Royal Family. From then on, a scrambler telephone and local pay phones were the only sure way that Diana felt secure enough to speak openly.