She has more colour to conjure with Meghan and Harry. I don’t want to be nailed down”, but these are slim pickings with this pretty happy union. With what verges on literary pretentiousness she says: “A Trollopian longing for social validation and an irrepressible desire to marry up cannot be overestimated even if it bubbled serenely below the surface.” Earlier there’s a moment when William declares, “All the fun has gone. Brown gives a detailed account of how Kate Middleton and William got together and in the absence of much intimate information she pushes the line that the young woman from a middle-class background was always on the make. The Princes, though, are a different proposition. We hear the story of the lunch with Piers Morgan where Diana says he can ask anything and William, a boy of 13, says he wants a glass of wine, is told he can’t have one, and then does anyway. She was not destroyed by the press – at least not without partaking of the deadly pas de deux – though this is the myth she bequeathed to William and Harry.
#Tina brown driver#
The paradox of this is that she is hyper-conscious of how much Diana “loved to dance with danger” – how she would come very close to causing a fatal accident in a car as she flirted with the press and how the ultimate accident which killed her would never have happened if an expert and sober driver of limousines had been at the wheel. Brown has an empathic relationship to the glitter and glamour of a figure like Diana partly because she has an instinctive reverence for worldly success and the long trail of vast fame as values in themselves.
Brown tells the story of how she sat with Vogue editor Anna Wintour listening to Diana tell the story of her tragic marriage to Charles “with an irresistible soulful intimacy that sucked us in” and then switched to a very canny and sophisticated account of how she was going to use her celebrity to push her causes.
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