Dianaworld

A brilliant, kaleidoscopic new cultural history of Diana, her many lives and the world she created‘This book is about layers of mythology and the people connected to them. It is less a biography o ...

A brilliant, kaleidoscopic new cultural history of Diana, her many lives and the world she created‘This book is about layers of mythology and the people connected to them. It is less a biography of Diana, more the story of a cultural obsession told via an exploration of “Dianaworld”, the sprawling, ever-evolving precinct of her various lives—public and private, real and imagined.’In February 1981 a 19-year-old nursery teacher’s assistant overnight became globally famous. In a frenzy of excitement, jumping every barrier of language and class, a new, overwhelming icon was conjured up.This is a g