DIANA REDUX
If you thought Diana Princess of Wales was a misunderstood saint, time to pick up Tina Brown's new revisionist biography, The Diana Chronicles.
Over 500 meticulously researched pages, former New Yorker editor Brown debunks the Diana myth (Sly Di may have suited her more than Shy Di), painting a portrait of a manipulative and scheming girl who tossed her nanny's engagement ring down the drain and whose biggest academic achievement was a prize for guinea pig husbandry.
In Brown's signature fast–paced, funny prose, we learn of a Princess who spent evenings dancing around the Palace alone with Wham! on her Walkman and pulling people's hair at dinner parties.
And, inevitably, you end up loving the Princess all the more for it.
The Diana Chronicles (Doubleday, 2007) $28 at Book Warehouse, www.bookwarehouse.ca