Beautiful Day
It’s a bright and temperate day– makes me wants to pick up my book, “The Diana Chronicles” and take it with me out back, have a seat on one of the deck chairs and start my second hundred pages in it.
Like a lot of people, I kept an interest in Diana (Official Royal’s Site) from the time she emerged in public at age 19 as Prince Charles’s bride-to-be, right through her demise as a passenger in a chauffeur-driven car evading the close onset of paparazzi.
Diana was less than 18 months younger me–so certainly a fellow member of my generation. Though I never intended it for to be so we had a number of key points in our lives that overlapped. We each married for the first time in July, 1981– to a man that was 12 years our senior.
I am, and she was of Scotch, German, and English extraction only.
Both our pregnancies overlapped. With the second, if I had gone full term, it would have been born the same month/year as her second, Harry. There’s more that I can’t recall at the mo. It seemed to be all sewn up when she perished on the very day of my brother’s wedding.
I had an interest in all the royals as I’m a Canadian expat and my mother had always kept loads of periodicals around which chronicled the lives of British royalty, so that’s what attracted me to this book, initially. Also, I ‘d read about Tina Brown, the book’s author, over the years and I was curious what her angle on Diana would be.
The book makes good reading. Certainly, there are many details previously unknown to me and the author does a fine job of weaving the story of Diana’s life–at this point her backstory, so to speak. It’s rather a long book and I chose it over another biography that I have on hand, “Schultz,” because the book about the Peanuts creator seemed like it would be a bit depressing. That may have been a hasty assumption as certainly in just reading of Diana’s childhood her life too is quite sad.
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