Taken from inside cover:

To all outward appearances, the Honorable Diana Frances Spencer - daughter of the eighth Earl Spencer, childhood playmate of royal children - was born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth. Yet the reality was very different, for Diana's childhood was an unhappy one. And when, like a fairy tale, she was transformed (in her own words) from 'a nobody' to become one of the most public figures in the land, before long appearances again proved to be deceptive: her marriage to the Prince of Wales was to end in recrimination and unhappiness.

Yet Diana was to recover from adversity to capture the hearts of people all over the world. And that triumph owned nothing to wealth or power or title, and everything to qualities that lay within - qualities for which she was universally adored: an innate ability to understand, and empathise with, ordinary people, but especially with the desperately sick, the rejected, the 'unloved'.

With six chapters and over 215 colour and black-and-white photographs - many previously unpublished in book form - and with a lively text by leading author Peter Donnelly, this book tells the remarkable story of Diana's flowering into 'The People's Princess' and in doing so pays homage to that 'innate nobility' that we all came to love and respect.

PETER DONNELLY, born in Country Durham, UK, in 1941, is a widely admired author, biographer and journalist. He has known and written about many famous figures, but has been most highly praised for his book Mrs. Milburn's Diaries, the moving story of an ordinary woman who lived through the war years in Coventry.