'Essential reading for all those who wish to know the truth about Diana'

The definitive account ... serves the cause of truth well and should be read by
anyone who wants to strip away the lies and get to the facts of the case

'Brilliant and thorough reporting . . . the most thorough book on the subject'

'A riveting account that will satisfy general readers and historians alike.'

'As enthralling and engrossing as any [story] about a high-profile celebrity scandal today.'

These diaries will be gasped at, and relied upon, for decades to come

Lucid, absorbing

The numerous fans of her Aristocrats (in which number I include myself) will not be disappointed: here is the same judicious mixture of intimacy and scholarship

A Royal Affair is an entertaining tale ...Tillyard's account of the brothers is heroic...[she] tells this astonishing tale with bravura

She has returned to what she knows-and does-best, teasing out the bonds of love, hate and pretend indifference that bind siblings, no matter what their historical pedigree, into a cat's cradle of consequence

The story is brilliantly told. In its descriptive flourishes it is sometimes fearlessly novelistic, yet it travels long distances for scholarly scruples