在已故英国王妃戴安娜逝世将满十周年之际，名记者蒂娜·布朗推出劲爆新书《黛安娜纪事》，剖析英国王储查理王子与黛妃的婚姻真相。书中的黛妃恶毒自私、擅长操弄媒体又爱慕虚荣。此外，布朗也在书中透露，查理的“真爱”卡米拉，也是因为查理的王储身分才对查理感兴趣。

Four months short of Diana, Princess of Wales' tenth death anniversary, an explosive book about her is about to hit the stands.

The book, titled 'The Diana Chronicles', has been penned by the late Princess' 'friend' Tina Brown, who not only portrays¹ her as a spiteful and manipulative woman, but also as a "media savvy² neurotic³".

Brown, who in 1985 attacked the Prince of Wales' neglect of his young wife as the reason for their crumbling⁴ marriage just four years into their supposedly 'fairy-tale' life, has this time turned the tables on Diana, and portrays her as a "spiteful, manipulative"woman who was more enamored by the thought of being Queen than by Charles.

The book also reveals that Prince Charles was the one who was "in love" with his spouse⁵ during the couple's marriage, and not vice⁶ versa.

Diana, she reveals, ruthlessly pursued Charles because of his position. When her mother Frances Shand Kydd tried to talk her out of the marriage, by demanding to know whether she loved the Prince or loved "what he is", Diana retorted: "What's the difference?"

A friend of Brown who has seen a copy of the book said that apart from the Prince of Wales and his two sons William and Harry⁷, every member of the royal family 'comes off badly', especially Diana.

"Almost everyone except Charles, William and Harry comes off badly - the Queen, Camilla and, most of all, (Lady) Di. It is going to be highly controversial, but this book isn't based on the myths that Diana created about herself and it certainly isn't gossip," the Daily Mail quoted the friend, as saying.

Tina is incredibly well-connected. She has been able to persuade an unparalleled range of sources and eyewitnesses⁸ to talk fully⁹ and honestly for the first time, sorting through the layers of contradictions about Diana. Diana was a humanitarian¹⁰ who at one level really identified with the common people, as she thought of them. But she was also a very messed-up woman whose downfall was due to her own insane jealousy¹¹ and self-obsession, the friend added.

Even the Prince of Wales' current wife Camilla, the book suggests, was not so much interested in Charles as she was in her first husband Andrew Parker Bowles, whom she pursued relentlessly¹² for six years.

It was only his infidelity that had Camilla becoming Prince Charles' mistress.