Diana: Her New Life

by Andrew Morton

Offers a behind-the-scenes look at the real life of Princess Diana, featuring previously unpublished photographs and new facets of Diana's social and private life

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Royalty, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, British Literature, Memoir

176 pages, Hardcover

First published September 20, 1990

About the author

Andrew David Morton (born 1953) is one of the world's best-known biographers and a leading authority on modern celebrity. His groundbreaking biography Diana: Her True Story was a #1 New York Times bestseller, as was Monica's Story, an authorized biography of Monica Lewinsky, and Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography. The winner of numerous awards, including Author of the Year, his other New York Times bestsellers include unauthorized biographies of Madonna and Angelina Jolie, as well as William & Catherine: Their Story. A former British Fleet Street tabloid journalist,he studied history at the University of Sussex. He lives in London.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/andrew...

Reviews

[Bronwyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is about diana, princess of Wales before and after her separation and divorce from the Prince of Wales as she builds a new life in the months before her untimely tragic death, and learns to manage a new life in her own and learns to accept the unhappy truth that her marriage was a farce, that her husband never loved her and that she should have used her own instinct and never gone through with the marriage.read about the princess as she faces the future and builds a new independent life

[Sadiksha Thapa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got inspired to read more of "biography" style novels from this novel onwards. The emotional upheaval , suffocation and confusion that Diana went through was heart-breaking, the book got me hooked to read more about Diana and other books written on her.
I would consider reading this book again.

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

a very good book

[Lilian · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have not read Diana: Her True Story. We got this copy from an aunt who bought all the commemorative books and magazines capitalizing on Diana's demise.

This to me read like a tabloid book, especially since most of the sources were unnamed. I couldn't get a firm grasp on the timeline either, as the author didn't seem to prioritize chronological order. But in some ways it was still an enlightening read (hoping what he reported are all factual) and I have more understanding behind the activities of the royal family. I noticed also the children were only mentioned a few times and in passing. But it is understandable for the need of privacy since William and Harry were mere children at the time.

Reading this book now, what with Catherine and Prince George, and also Prince Charles finally marrying Camila, it does make me wonder what could have happened or how Diana would have felt had she survived or if the "accident" didn't happen. I wonder, too, what else she could have done had she more time to spread her wings.

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I read scathing reviews about Morton's biography on Angelina Jolie and it was dubbed as the worst book of the year when it came out. I also remembered he also wrote one on Madonna, and that I have a copy of it somewhere, I just haven't gotten around to reading it. Knowing that Morton writes biographies without the subject's consent, I really don't put much stock into his words.

[Sarah Jacquie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cried with my mum when we heard the news, the woman I had been brought up to admire and see as an icon for so many causes and pains. After she died, we read so many books, too many for me to even recall. She was fascinating in life and her death created a void for my generation as deaths of other amazing people in the decades before her.

Whatever the state of the royal family and all their drama, Diana brought change that we all wanted to see in the world. Ever her name used after her death, she still continues to do more than the Royal Family has and can ever do in all their lives combined. A symbol of hope taken too soon, too good for this earth, and definitely a precious rose too good for the Windsors to spoil.

[Graceann · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Written from a clearly pro-Diana point of view, this overview of the years between late 1992 and early 1995 was interesting, if one-sided. I'm looking forward to reading the more even-handed books that cover her whole life.

[Seneca Rickett · Rating 1 out of 5]

Let me start off this review by saying this isn't a book I would have chosen for myself. I recently received 3 boxes of books from an aunt and apparently she's purchased every book there is about Princess Diana.

This book seemed more like something from a gossip column or a tabloid magazine. It seemed far fetched and I really felt like a lot of quotes were perhaps taken out of context to fit the authors personal view.

[Laura✨ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Strange to read this knowing all the events of the past 30 years. I had issues with his tendency to give long winded and detailed intros/hooks to parts/sections, then repeating it all later in the chapters.

[Sean McCabe · Rating 3 out of 5]

interesting perspective

[Vanessa West · Rating 3 out of 5]

Diana: Her New Life book was a good biography and you found out many things at one does not normally know about royalty. I read this book at the same time as my mother because she was so interested in Princess Diana. It is a good biography that caused many conversations and would be good for mature teenagers to learn another area of the world and of royalty but still has many similar problems that we have here. It touches base on her unlovable childhood to the affairs and even has excerpts of things she said in it. The plot is just her story of her life and the author explains it very well. The emotions throughout the books are from one extreme of happy to being depressed, the emotions are constantly unraveling. One thing I would have my students do is research all of the things in the book to make sure they are all correct because some of it is so hard to believe.

[Rhonda Coe · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW...I am sad that she had to live a horrible life. The royal family really treated her like crap, as did the media. She did not deserve that treatment from a man who CHEATED ON HER!She is such an amazing woman who overcame the horrible life in the royal family and media. I feel she is in a much better and safer place!

[Lydia Hale · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have not read the first book written on Princess Diana by Andrew Morton. I think this book may have been more relevent when read at the time it was published instead of years later, after Princess Diana's death etc. Still, it was interesting reading about how sad and difficult her life was. All she ever wanted was a husband to love her, and she married one who loved someone else!

[Platte puss · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's to bad she didn'nt get to enjoy her new life fo very long. I still miss her. I would have loved to have seen her as grandmother to Willam's baby. I bought this and read it before she died and I read it and look at the pics every once and a while. I like to look back on what used to be.

[Cherrie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Gave up reading this book halfway because it's almost the same as reading a tabloid/magazine with quotes here and there but with no named sources! How much of it is speculation/fiction and how much of it is fact is hard to decipher in this book.

[Mansee · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was quite painful to read about her experiences but the author could have done a better job...somehow the writing style did not hold interest.

[myreadiary · Rating 5 out of 5]

A chapter turner. Every time I took a break, I kept looking the cover and stare at princess Diana.

[Elma Voogdt · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Diana haar nieuwe leven ” is een boek dat dateert uit 1994. De periode dat prinses Diana midden in de periode van de scheiding van tafel en bed zat. Het boek is een soort vervolg op het boek “Diana haar eigen verhaal”. “Diana haar nieuwe leven” belicht de periode van 1992 tot en met 1994. Zo beschrijft het boek Diana’s laatste officiële koninklijke tournee in Zuid-Korea, die bekend werd om de kilte tussen haar en prins Charles; haar scheiding van tafel en bed ; de beslissing om een stap terug te doen uit het koninklijke leven en de spotlight; en achteraf gezien op weg naar haar officiële scheiding.

In dit boek lezen we hoe Diana haar leven weer probeert op te bouwen, met vallen en opstaan zoals blijkt uit het verhaal. Diana’s leven is altijd intrigerend geweest; ze was getrouwd met de erfgenaam van de Britse troon en fascineerde miljarden mensen over de hele wereld. Diana werd vaak geprezen als de vrouw die de Britse monarchie dichter bij haar onderdanen bracht. Inderdaad ze heeft veranderingen te weeg gebracht.

Diana was echter geen heilige; ze was soms verbitterd en manipuleerde de media in vaak haar voordeel om daarna weer het slachtoffer van de media te spelen. Dit zal wel tegen het zere been van de Diana Die Hards zijn, maar het is wel de waarheid. Het toont alleen maar dat Diana ook maar een mens was, met haar eigen worstelingen, het ongelukkige huwelijk met Charles. Maar ook de pers die haar gevraagd en ongevraagd op de hielen zat, de zoektocht naar echte liefde etc. We krijgen in dit boek daar een beeld van.

In het boek staan vele afbeeldingen van de prinses. Het is echter jammer dat in het boek veel paparazzi beelden gebruikt worden. Ik begrijp dat dat is om de mensen naast het woord een beeld te geven, maar de makers van dit boek werkten zo wel weer mee om de portemonnees van deze paparazzi te vullen en zo hun honger naar meer te voeden. Ik noem dat toch een ongelukkige keuze. Daarnaast heb je het gevoel dat de auteur verder borduurde op het succes van het boek “Diana haar eigen verhaal”. Zo van nog een boek van Diana zal ook wel weer goed verkopen en mijn portemonnee verder vullen. Een boek die de Diana liefhebber zeker toch in zijn of haar boekenkast wil hebben.

[Hessah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Diana’s life has been an intriguing tabloid material ; she was married to the heir of the British throne and captivated billions of people around the world. Diana had often been hailed as the woman who brought the British monarchy closers to its subjects. However, Diana was no saint; she was bitter sometimes and manipulate the media to her advantage. I have been a Diana sympathizer but Charles, Prince of Wales has been cordial when he spoke of Diana. She was not.

[Katharine Warner · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book left me rather unsatisfied. Much of the book is repetitive and many of the chapters feel out of order and difficult to follow. Additionally, much of the book felt like the author was complaining about how Diana was treated on her behalf, and then turning around and chastising her for feeling upset when the media attacked her. The book was drawn out, and could’ve been simply an article instead of an entire book.

[Kaylyn Sheehan · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you read “Diana: Her True Story”, you’re in for much of the same. This book is written after the release of Andrew Morton’s first biography about Diana up until 1994. It covers the backlash that came from the release of Diana: Her True Story, the separation from Charles and the discussion of their eventual divorce, her relationships with the royal family including the queen and her own two children.
It’s an easy and interesting read if you’re interested in the Diana story.

[eisha sarkar · Rating 4 out of 5]

The sequel to Diana Her True Story deconstructs the myth of the prettiest princess and her fantasy life and lets the reader navigate through the insecurities of a wronged woman trying to break her shackles, yet shying away from confrontation with the monarchy. It torments you enough to not want to read more, especially, like me, you want to remember Diana for her smile and not her tears.

[Juliewheatcox.Net · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book just reiterated what a precarious position Princess Diana was in. It’s no wonder that she took up the cause of ending landmines since the Royal family made her life a minefield. Whatever steps she took threatened to set off an explosion.

[Tam📖 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly picked this one up because it came up in the search when I was searching for his first book on Diana. A definite money grab for the author. Nothing new here… now onto Tina Brown’s Diana book.

[Julie Cross · Rating 4 out of 5]

Morton continues to use Diana's life events to stress the fact that nothing Harry has gone through is any different than what his mother also went through. They are two peas in a pod, and the British press is no different than it was back then.

[~☆~Autumn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I believe this might be the one that I own! This was all too sad.

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as interesting as the previous book and didn't cover much ground.

[Deirdre Sanders · Rating 5 out of 5]

Candy, but delicious, delicious candy.

[Rocío · Rating 1 out of 5]

Creo que este libro ameritaba leerlo en su momento, a esta altura no vale la pena. No me aportó nada, me pareció repetitivo, confuso, aburrido y mal escrito.

[Alfie Cole · Rating 5 out of 5]

again, it’s about diana! duh of course it will be amazing

[María Marmolejo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nada que ya no supiera