Jun 14 2007
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
NYT book review had her book last week. AOL flushed it yesterday. I read the excerpt while waiting for the evil Dell to fix the laptop - I’ll buy Dell again when it’s time for new computer, trust me. Anyway, I was surprised to find an ex-editor of Vanity Fair wrote such book. Shouldn’t they have more seriously subject to write or thing to do? Aren’t there enough books on Di? Although I haven’t read any Di books, probably won’t, but would read little short articles about her, more for the reason I’m intrigue by the fact that a sophisticated rich man had married her, then ultimately dumped her for an older and less attractive woman.
Brown wrote when Di tried to keep the H.R.H. title after divorcing and was denied, her son William said, “Don’t worry, Mummy, I will give it back to you one day, when I am king.” My heart went out… One of things I was thinking was her son was at such tender age and she involved him throughout her ordeal. And what the title would have done for her? Changed the fact that she’s someone’s baby sitter or giving her love?
Oh, by the way, the prose is nothing to write home about. And this was the ex editor-in-chief for VF who found another line of work .. rushing into the fray, profitting from a dead woman? Check out Bette Bao Lord or Michael Lewis for their writing skills and subject matters, just to name a few…