To all outward appearances, the Honorable Diana Frances Spencer, daughter of the eighth Earl Spencer, childhood playmate of royal children, was born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth. Yet the reality was very different, for Diana's childhood was an unhappy one. And when, like a fairy tale, she was transformed (in her own words) from 'a nobody' to become one of the most public figures in the land, before long appearances again proved to be deceptive: her marriage to the Prince of Wales was to end in recrimination and unhappiness.

With six chapters and over 215 color and black-and-white photos, the book tells the remarkable story of Diana's flowering into "The People's Princess" and in doing so pays homage to that 'innate nobility' that we all came to love and respect.

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