Word: junor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when it looked like it was safe to be Prince Charles again comes another newsprint explosion, this time caused by a book whose allegations are being splashed across the front pages of British newspapers. A week ago, the Mail on Sunday ran its first of six excerpts from Penny Junor's Charles: Villain or Victim?, due out later this month from HarperCollins Publishers. The irony is that Junor, author of an earlier pro-Charles biography, is once again trying to put the Prince squarely in the victim camp, but somehow the royal carfuffle has done precisely the opposite. HOW COULD...
...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...
...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...
...nothing to diminish her enormous public appeal. Some recent polls rank her as the family's most popular member. No wonder then that she is not at all daunted by a solo life if that is to be her fate. "After all," says broadcaster and veteran royal biographer Penny Junor, "she's been orchestrating events." Her confidence is such that on her Paris trip, though she has only patchy, schoolgirl French, she did not hesitate to use it -- no mean attainment, since the French have a way of intimidating foreign speakers considerably more fluent than Diana. People who have worked...