Diana In Search of Herself

An interesting examination of a troubled life.

This is supposed to be an analysis of Princess Diana's self destructive life, which is supposed to delve more meaningfully into her emotional world to make her out to be someone who had no real self identity up until her death: a Borderline Personality who made those around her a living hell with tantrums, suicide attempts, binge eating and purging and bouts of paranoia until she abandoned them to move onto her next 'victim' stupid and misguided enough to be besotted by her beauty and charm until they too got fed up with her or disolusioned with her chronic neediness. But it is this book, not the evidence supporting the author's theory, that turns her into a basket case. The author selects biographical information about Diana's life, which is already written about or in the public domain, to support the main theme of her argument. What she really does is tailor the evidence to fit the hugely unsupported and manufactured verdict. But there is no sign in this book that this author has any knowledge or insight into this complex distressing psychological illness. According to some experts on personality disorders, it is highly unlikely that Princess Diana would be able to achieve all she had in her short life: hob nobbing with the greatest and good and doing all of her good works with aplomb if she genuinely suffered from BPD. After all, she did remarkably well to appear normal, well balanced and confident during public engagements. I am inclined to believe these experts not this author, based on the ill informed drivel written here. All told, the book seems far more like yet another anti Princess Di biography: a pro-establishment, pro-Charles exercise designed to undermine Princess Diana who, no doubt, had her faults and weaknesses but was likely to have little more than chronic anxiety disorder as well as bullimia originating from deep unhappiness and insecurities brought about by her parents divorce, possibly made much worse by her role as a highly publicised figurehead destined to be Queen who had to live a lie for most of her life after being betrayed by her husband's infidelity, whilst trying to cope with a hounding press whilst living amongst a largely unsypathetic toxic, no nonsense royal family who have little insight, understanding and patience for a more sensitive, tactile 'feely touchy' person like her who, quite frankly, seemed to have been born into the wrong class.