Tina Brown: ‘Diana would have loathed the idea of a Queen Camilla… but we’re 25 years on’
telegraph.co.ukFollowing the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, a badly shaken Royal family embraced dullness like a spouse returning gratefully to the marital bed after an affair with a gorgeous but unstable lover.
According to Tina Brown, author of The Diana Chronicles, the Queen made it crystal clear that it could never happen again.‘The it being Diana’s explosive celebrity, the problem of the monarchy being upstaged, outshone by… anyone other than the Queen or the heir to the throne.
The refrain most repeated at the Palace was, “We don’t want another Diana.” Never again!’So how did ‘never again’ work out? That’s what I begin by asking Brown, who, a quarter of a century after Diana’s death, has returned to the subject of the monarchy in an eye-poppingly revealing (and occasionally eyebrow-singeing) new book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil.
It’s the result of two years’ work, speaking to 120 people intimately involved with senior royals and their households.As I speak to Brown, via Zoom, in her book-lined study in New York, she observes drily that it’s been a somewhat challenging year for the royals.
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