The Queen and Di - Brossura

Seward, Ingrid

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ISBN 10: 0006530834 ISBN 13: 9780006530831

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2001

Riassunto

The complex relationship between the Queen and her daughter-in-law Diana, Princess of Wales is examined for the first time in detail by bestselling author Ingrid Seward.

The book charts the sometimes touching and often fraught association between two powerful women from the moment Diana stepped over the Queen’s threshold at Balmoral as a weekend guest in the 1980s to her death in 1997, and shows how the monarchy was affected by the tragedy.

The author tells how the Queen tried to welcome Diana into the royal fold and how – too scared, young and psychologically troubled – Diana failed to grasp the hand of friendship. Explosive and revealing, this book describes how the Queen mostly stood alone in her defence of Diana, although in the end she came to fear her – and her effect on the Queen’s grandchildren William and Harry and on the institution of monarchy.

Through a meeting with the Princess a few weeks before her death, the author provides an astonishing insight into the Camilla Parker Bowles set-up and the views and opinions of one of the most adored and vilified women of the 20th century.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Ingrid Seward is editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine and author of many bestselling royal biographies (most recently, THE LAST GREAT EDWARDIAN LADY: THE LIFE AND STYLE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN MOTHER: Century, 1999).

Dalla quarta di copertina:

'"Devastating... the untold story of how Diana spurned the Queen's hand of friendship and started a spiral of mistrust that turned the two women into enemies"
DAILY MAIL'

The complex relationship between the queen and her daughter-in-law Diana, Princess of Wales is examined in detail for the first time by bestselling author and royal biographer Ingrid Seward. 'The Queen & Di' charts the sometimes touching and often fraught association between two powerful and determined women from the moment Diana stepped over the Queen's threshold at Balmoral as a weekend guest in the 1980s to her death in 1997, and shows how the monarchy was affected by the tragedy.

Chronicling the parallels in their lives as well as their contrasting styles and differing conventions of their times, Seward provides new insights into the behind-closed-doors scenes of Buckingham Palace as Diana's fairytale marriage began slowly to unravel and events spiralled out of control. The author reveals the lengths to which the Queen went in her efforts to understand her daughter-in-law – her unstinting generosity and support, her encouragement and forbearance – often standing alone in her defence, until she was finally driven to distraction and plunged into despair; she shows, too, how Diana, too scared, young and psychologically troubled, failed to grasp the Queen's hand of friendship in return, and how, in the end, the Queen came to fear her – and her effect on the Queen's grandchildren William and Harry and on the institution of the monarchy.

Through a meeting with the princess a few weeks before her death, Ingrid Seward provides an astonishing insight into the Camilla Parker-Bowles set-up and the views and opinions of one of the most adored and vilified women of the twentieth century.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0006530834
• ISBN 13: 9780006530831
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272