…” While Buckingham Palace staked out stories about the unstable princess, Fleet Street frothed up other tales about an uncaring and remote royal family. Sarah Bradford’s simply titled “Diana” (Viking, 464 pages, $25.95) is meant to surpass these representative earlier productions of the Diana industry, as her portentous prologue announces: “By the time of her death in August 1997, she was an icon and a royal rebel, a glamorous figure both worshiped and reviled. Diana - the countdown: Andrew Morton, “Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words” (1992), Anthony Holden, “The Tarnished Crown: Princess Diana and the House of Windsor” (1993), Anne Edwards, “Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led” (1999), Sally Bedell Smith, “Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess” (1999).
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