The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown.

This was re-read for me brought on by the dazzle of her son`s wedding. With its gorgeous pink cover, its Diana signature title and author who has known more success than failure, it was always a winner. Tina Brown knows the insiders and knows their lifestyles so cracking the myths that surround Diana was a challenge she was well up for. Well written,with just the right tone of syntax to make you feel a bit upper crust as you read, it fairly zips along leaving the Train Wreck that was Diana`s life in its wake.
Rather lost, lonely and deeply possessive and needy long before she meet Charles, Diana was never going to be able to fit into the rhythms and rigidity that characterised the Windsors and they were never going to be able to accommodate her needs. Married at 20 to a kind and intellectual man, who had a foul temper and had been spoilt all his life, neither had any idea of the reality of married life, both married an Idea..and very quickly lack of real empathy,common interests, physical attraction and divergent wants and needs erupted into open warfare with everyone surrounding them a casualty in some way or another. Diana was marvellous as a compassionate, public performer who had a genuine empathy with the lost, the lonely and the sick, nothing was too much for her, with winning looks and a bouquet of charisma she became a Superstar and Charles instead of pride and revelling in her success, instead of wanting to become a team, turned green at the gills, became enraged and feeling emasculated turned away from his wife. His wife not understanding his reaction until she was much older became bewildered, bulimic and emotionally battered by expectation rather than reality.
Royalty as confessionals became the norm,on and on, day in day out....Affairs, phone tapping, rows, cold shoulders in public, battles over the children. Paranoia,jealousy,resentment. In miscalculating the effect of Andrew Morton's book Diana did herself a fatal blow and felt the full force of the House of Windsor, she never recovered from the tailspin, her death in a cheap car car wreck clearly shows us that, Charles of course won out in the end, wed Camilla and goes on. This book paints a very readable and realistic warts and all portrait of both Charles and Diana, Brown is fair, evenhanded and honest, she weighs up contentious issues from all sides and them pronounces.
Many in light of Williams wedding have elucidated on how happy Diana would be about it, having read everything ever written about Diana here is my take...
Camilla's granddaughter was a flower girl...
Tiggy Legge-Bourke who was the boys Nanny (Diana Loathed her) son Tom was a pageboy...
Margarita Armstrong Jones, Princess Margaret's granddaughter was a flower girl (Bad blood between Diana and Margaret)
Grace Van Cutsem (whose grandparents Diana also loathed) was a flower girl...
Diana would not have been amused but it does show us what a wonderful and balanced young man her son has turned out to be, it also shows us that every lesson possible has been learnt and that the Windsors that Kate married into bare no resemblance to the ones that poor Diana married into and the person most responsible for that is Diana.