Princess Diana at the point when she finally decided to leave her crumbling marriage to Prince Charles—a major focus of the plot in the fifth season. In terms of royal biographies, Sally Bedell Smith’s Elizabeth the Queen remains the definitive volume on the many ups and downs of Elizabeth II’s reign (including her annus horribilis), while Tina Brown’s The Diana Chronicles traces the late Princess’s life from Althorp to that fateful night at the Ritz in Paris, celebrating her many achievements without verging on hagiography.
Comments