Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monica Lewinsky is ready to tell all, says the New York Post. The paper reports that the "Sexgate siren" has signed a seven-figure deal with St. Martin's Press to publish a book in February. Her collaborator: Andrew Morton, best-selling royal biographer, whose Princess Diana book was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic (and is now being turned into a movie by "The Lion in Winter" producer Martin Poll). In addition, says the Post, it looks as though Monica will be sitting down to talk with ABC's Barbara Walters sometime soon...
...hoards of Princess Di Barbie Dolls and made for TV movies soon to invade your tube with thrice-regurgitated versions of the Paris accident...no? ...really?...then you might be one of the millions planning to pay homage at "Dresses for Humanity: An Exhibition of the Dresses of Diana, Princess of Wales." The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Mass is the lucky host of Di's famous garments which are projected to generate $100 million in donations for various chartities spanning the globe. The exhibit runs through Jan. 1st. Tickets are $10 for adults ($8 for members, students...
...juiciest bits published so far go some way toward toppling the image created by Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story, which depicted a young Princess distraught over her husband's infidelity. Junor claims that Diana, not Charles, was the first to break the marriage vows--by having an affair with her personal security officer, Barry Mannakee, who was killed in a 1987 motorcycle accident. When Diana learned of Mannakee's death, Junor writes, "in her despair she slashed herself, and the dress she wore in Cannes had to be adjusted to hide the damage." While Morton maintained that Diana...
Immediately, Diana supporters came roaring back. THE SMEARING OF A PRINCESS, read one headline; Diana's friend Rosa Monckton, her brother Charles Spencer and the Duchess of York all made statements bemoaning that anyone would accuse the Princess of wrongdoing now that she's dead. "Has Charles no shame?" wonders another royal biographer, Anthony Holden. Charles and Camilla were driven to the unprecedented move of issuing a joint statement insisting that they had not cooperated with Junor nor asked their friends...
...disorder made its first major public appearance three years ago, when Princess Diana confessed that the strain of her marriage had caused her to throw herself down the staircase and cut herself with razors, pen knives and lemon slicers. "You have so much pain inside yourself," she said in an interview with the BBC, "you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you need help." Says Steven Levenkron, a pioneer in the study of anorexia and author of two books on self-injury: "It feels like an epidemic, but it's an epidemic of disclosure. And I credit Diana...