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The Princess Who Changed the World

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A beautiful and thoughtful tribute to Diana, interspersed with lots of interesting detail, including the appalling callousness of The Royal Family. We will never see anyone else like Diana, Princess of Wales & Queen of Hearts in our lifetimes. This book, and the pictures that accompany it remind us again of the gift we had with her smiling presence, the courage she had to sparkle through her pain and vulnerability, and the loss that still goes deep with her gone. Prince Charles was a fool, and blind to the asset he had in Diana throughout their marriage. He and Camilla deserve each-other, but the monarchy would be better off ending than letting the woman who caused Diana so much grief ever have a chance to become Queen. The behavior of the Queen, Prince Phillip, and that dreadful Robert Fellows, who tried to downgrade her right to a royal funeral speaks volumes for their superficiality, callousness and shallowness. How magnificent in her kindness, empathy and genuiness was Diana in comparison. An excellent read.

My husband saw this book and purchased it for me, and I have read it many time. Diana, Princess of Wales, was one princess who possessed a sense of humor and was not afraid to laugh which appears to be somthing almost unheard of in the Royal Family.

Her smile radiated warmth and was contagious to all those around her. I don't think Prince Charles realized what a true gem he had until her death, and suddenly, he didn't have her at all - there was just Charles, no Diana and Charles. Or course, she raised the Princes, William and Harry, long enough that her legacy will live on in them. I, for one, don't see how Charles can look at either of his sons without thinking of their beautiful, elegant mother.

In a couple of my book it mentions that Camilla wasn't good enough to be royal in the seventies. If this is true, what makes her so right now - her ugliness. Diana will always be the Princess of Wales until Prince William marries as far as I am cancerned.

This is a great book and a must for everyone.

A good book about the lovely and wonderful Diana though perhaps not the best I've ever read. Still, those of us who truly loved and admired this wonderful woman will want to read it.

To the "Reader From Oxford England" whose nasty review appeared above: Why bother to share your vapid and meaningless thoughts? My suggestion for you is to go and find other Diana-bashers, such as that two-faced Robert Fellowes, and have a great big BLOW-FEST with one another!!

I felt the author attempted to shed new insight on a beautiful woman who died far too early in her short life. Prince Charles said it best once...he felt that in time she would have come back to him, possibly very ill, and he would have taken care of her. I do believe, in spite of what he had told the press in his famous BBC interview, that he did love her. She was the mother of their boys.

I get so tired of hearing people "trash" a woman who (although she made her share of mistakes--like everyone else),did so many things that brought joy and happiness to the lives of so many people--usually the less fortunate.. Sure, she was a Princess, and wealthy and famous, but she also lived a life full of pain. Money and fame cannot take away the pain other people caused her. She was thrown into a lifestyle and a family who did very little to help her. She wanted to learn! No one wanted to bother to teach her. Just throw her to the wolves...She did very well, despite all of the troubles she had to deal with in her own life. She tried to put her unhappiness aside to help others. How many people do that in the world we Live In today. All people seem to care about is themselves. Frankly, even though Diana made mistakes, she also tried very hard to deal with her problems, while helping others with theirs. And she couldn't have possibly been a better mother to her children. She just wanted and needed love, like everyone else in the world! I am very proud that I knew a woman who did as much to help others, as Diana did. Anyone who wants to "knock" her, should try living the life she had to live and see how well they do!!!

This glutinous tribute to England's Great Whore and Traitoress made me want to spew.