{"product_id":"ever-after-diana-and-the-life-she-led-paperback","title":"Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Diana's many fans are sure to be delighted by Edwards's intimate prose and detailed descriptions.\" -\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for fans of Netflix's \u003ci\u003eThe Crown.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is the stuff of fairy tales,\" said the Archbishop of Canterbury on July 23, 1981, after the 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer arrived in a glass coach for her wedding to Prince Charles. But everyone knows how that fairy tale ended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing upon intensive research and interviews, acclaimed biographer Anne Edwards, well-known for her revelatory and incisive books on members of Britain's royal family, here uncovers new details of Diana's life and her search for love; of her family background; and of a betrayal, historic in its outcome. What the public did not know at the time of her storybook wedding was the true story of Diana's troubled childhood-of the cold, autocratic grandfather who disdained her father, who was himself an abusive husband obsessed with having a son to inherit the Spencer wealth and title. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Diana married Prince Charles, she joined the equally troubled House of Windsor, and was caught up in a plot Shakespearean in its deception and eventual tragic ending. Anne Edwards paints a vivid portrait of a woman desperate in her marriage, fearful of her life, who became devious-and often brilliant-in the moves she played in a treacherous royal chess game. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs in her superb biographies of other royal and celebrated women, Anne Edwards's\u003ci\u003e Ever After\u003c\/i\u003e transcends the one-sided views of Diana in a work that must be called definitive. At long last, and with all of the insight and narrative drama that have marked her previous bestsellers, Edwards brings us the first full-scale, authoritative portrait of a more intelligent, more resourceful, and sometimes more ruthless woman than we have seen before.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e (1927 -2024) was the author of many biographies including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller that became a classic in the field: \u003ci\u003eVivien Leigh: A Biography.\u003c\/i\u003e Other acclaimed titles include\u003ci\u003e Early Reagan: The Rise to Power\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMatriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKatharine Hepburn: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. Edwards was a former president of the Authors Guild and a sought-after speaker. She and her late husband, musical theater historian Stephen Citron, lived in Beverly Hills, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 414\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47444816036018,"sku":"9781250052889","price":30.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/de16a91d1553766cc620543d6d2c0614.webp?v=1778712136","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/ever-after-diana-and-the-life-she-led-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}