A Very British Girl

Thirty years after her death, numerous versions of Diana have hardened into legend - but they tell only part of her story. Drawing on a remarkable range of testimony and contemporary evidence, A Very British Girl reclaims Diana from the mythology that surrounds her and traces her transformation into the most famous woman in the world. Vulnerable yet formidable, emotionally impulsive yet increasingly sophisticated in her understanding of her own power, Diana was neither simply the victim of an unfeeling institution nor the calculating media manipulator portrayed by her critics.