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A Lady’s Man

by | 19th, June 2004

‘“WORLD EXCLUSIVE,” trumpets the cover of Hello!, “THE EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT PRINCESS DIANA.”

Diana: Learning to walk and talk at the same time

That sounds promising, although a straw poll among the staff here at Anorak Towers discovered that few of us still think about the Princess at all (it all being too unbearable, presumably).

But give us the chance to emote about our Queen of Hearts and we’ll weep, wail and gnash our teeth with best of them.

And so to the book, which happens to be a new work by Andrew Morton, the man who brought us the blockbusting Diana: Her True Story – which was the last word on Diana until Paul Burrell got in on the act.

Morton’s new work, and the one that will change our view of his muse, is entitled Diana: In Pursuit Of Love.

And like all Mills & Boon-style tomes, this love story contains a doctor, a soldier, a sportsman, a playboy millionaire, a Prince, plenty of heaving bosoms and much staring into the fading light of a perfect day (and the headlights of a mysterious white Fiat Uno).

But, although there are men aplenty, the Princess did not enjoy all her suitors at once. She was no tart – although

she was for a time seeing a certain Oliver Hoare, with whom she was having an affair at the time of Morton’s first book about her.

And this left Morton speechless. And brings him to his promised sensation. “She was a lot cleverer than people gave her credit for,” says he.

Surprised? Not those of us who saw the way she could find the right hat for almost any occasion…’



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