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...Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, which alleged that the singer's mother was an abortionist, and Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography, which alleged that the former First Lady and Sinatra enjoyed a White House dalliance. The author's latest is a multigenerational saga about the House of Windsor, promising dirt on everyone from King George V to the late Princess of Wales. The catch--or the break, depending on your point of view--is Diana's accidental death just three weeks before the book's publication date...
...paparazzi for much of the way but apparently managed to slip past them at some point. Paul turned off and delivered the baggage to Dodi's apartment near the Arc de Triomphe. Dourneau, with Di and Dodi in the rear, continued on, arriving around 3:45 at the Villa Windsor, the former home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, now leased by Dodi's father Mohammed. According to sources close to the investigation, Dourneau testified to police that Dodi congratulated him on losing the paparazzi on the way from Le Bourget...
While his speech, which he reportedly showed no one prior to delivering it, obviously had detractors among Windsor-family loyalists and some others, Spencer's sentiments largely drew applause around the globe. Encouraged by the 27,000 letters he received in support of his criticism of the media, Spencer on Thursday met with Chancellor Gordon Brown to discuss plans for a memorial for Diana and ended up pressing the government to enact privacy legislation. Partly as a result of Spencer's oration, many British tabloids had already announced that they would respect the privacy of Princes William and Harry while...
...took to the airwaves--what else?--to assure her flock that she too had joined the national wallow, albeit in her own private Windsor way. She begged their indulgence as she too tried--here she reached for the supreme code word of touchy-feely self-pity--to "cope." This performance was not exactly Henry II having himself ostentatiously flogged for causing the death of Thomas Becket. But it was, in its own bloodless way, mortifying--as the Queen's frenzied subjects meant...
...Wilson is the author of The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor and, most recently, Paul: The Mind of the Apostle...