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Princess Di: Liar and Saint

Monday, July 09, 2007

Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, says that Diana was both a liar and a saint. Her new much-talked-about book is The Diana Chronicles.

The Diana Chronicles is available for purchase at amazon.com


Event: Tina Brown will be in conversation with Warren Hoge
Tuesday, July 10 at 7 pm
The Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway, at 12th Street


Comments

  • [1] Chicago listener July 10, 2007 - 01:41AM

    Leonard -

    I really don't care about the former princess and I care even less about Tina Brown. BUT!, you've done it again...something about the tone and pace and substance of your questions grabbed me and I listened to the entire segment. Brilliantly done.
  • [2] Chicago listener July 10, 2007 - 02:07AM

    ...a follow up comment. what i resent about Ms. Brown and the former princess is the kind of revisionist storytelling that Ms. Brown uses.

    "She was so beautiful, so young..."

    Princess Diana was a rather plain girl at 19. Plain in that very English way. The woman who had affairs and romanced the camera...who had a team of professionals tending to her hair. She was "lovely" or "beautiful," but in the end, so, what?

    If she were poor and living in a ghetto, we would label "Princess Di" as an adultress...a whore.

    Toward the end of her life, she "came out" against landmines and AIDS. Does all of that make her less of a slut?

    What about this girl was so meteoric? Well, she sold her soul in order to become a "princess."

    She "changed" "the Royals"?

    I think not.

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