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23
   “until their defense structure”: Web site for Richard J. Corelli, M.D., Stanford University

24
   “estimated 2.5 per cent”:
Harvard Mental Health Letter
, 3/92

25
   From fifteen to twenty-five percent: B-JK, p. 4

26
   “intricately connected”: Ibid., p. 7

27
   “deep feelings of unworthiness”: Tribute by Earl Spencer

28
   “because of the strain”: ES, 9/6/97

29
   “to the point where”: B-AP, pp. 101–2

30
   A number of studies:
Handbook of Treatment for Eating Disorders
, p. 438

31
   “self-mutilation … is the hallmark”: B-JK, p. 33

32
   “If you have been rejected”: VF, 10/97

33
   “to the exclusion of all else”: B-JD, p. 361

34
   “who would be there for her”: B-SS, p. 37

35
   “paling effect of time”: Interview with Kent Ravenscroft

36
   “She had no governor”: Interview with David Puttnam

37
   “cannot tolerate human inconsistencies”: B-JK, p. 10

38
   “emotional hemophilia … clotting mechanism”: Ibid., p. 8

39
   “Clearly on a hair trigger”: TNY, 9/15/97

40
   “magical thinking”:
Handbook of Treatment for Eating Disorders
, p. 439

41
   Antidepressants such as Prozac: Ibid., pp. 441–42

42
   “a kind of ‘Third World’ ”: B-JK, p. 5

43
   “Not with cards”: WP, 9/7/97

44
   “Most people look at it”: Interview with Michael Colborne

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Acknowledgments

This book began with a phone call from Peter Bernstein, then the publisher of Times Books at Random House, two days after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. His hope, he said, was that I could “pull it all together” and write a “dignified analysis” that would “put her life in perspective.” We agreed that it was vital that I finish the book before the mythology of Diana became so deeply rooted that even her friends would have trouble recalling her with clarity and perspective.

Achieving this goal kept me on a grueling course of travel, research, and writing. I shuttled back and forth between Washington and London—all told, I logged some four months in England—and at home I spent so much time in my study that I might as well have been abroad. My schedule required the loving patience of my husband, Stephen, and my three children, Kirk, Lisa, and David. I am deeply grateful to Gladys Campbell for overseeing the household whenever I was away, and to Carmel Park for doing the same when I was sequestered in my office. I am also indebted to my thoughtful neighbors, John and Annie Carter, and Robert and Maralyn Marsteller, for a hundred favors, big and small.

I owe enormous thanks to my dear friends Joan and Bernie Carl, for their boundless hospitality during my trips to London. Along with their lovely children, Alex, Andrew, and Jennifer, they embraced me as if I were a member of their family. I was cared for—make that hopelessly spoiled—by the rest of “Team Carl”: Barry Crick, Britta Fahnemann, Colin Shanley, Tony Stephens, and Dulia Vieira. For their generosity, their friendship, their thoughtfulness, their warmth, and their laughter, I have dedicated this book to Joan and Bernie, with deep affection and gratitude.

Other friends helped keep me afloat with their ideas and encouragement. Maureen Orth, Sally Quinn, Martha Sherrill, and Marjorie Williams were invaluable sounding boards, by phone, over lunch, during long walks, and by e-mail. I’m indebted as well to Jill Abramson, Elizabeth Becker, Amy Bernstein, Tom Brokaw, Gahl Burt, Bob Colacello, Stefania Conrad, Frank Digiacomo, Dominick Dunne, Desmond Gorges, Jean Graham, Gale Hayman, Reinaldo Herrera, Jane Hitchcock, George Hodgman, Cathy Horyn, Ellen James, Jon Katz, Kim Masters, Mike and Sandy Meehan, Alyne Massey, Virginia Merriman, Howard and Susie Morgan, Sylvia Morris, Jill Scharff, Marilyn Schwartz, Wendy Stark, Evan Thomas, and Susan Watters for their suggestions about sources and lines of inquiry. In England I was fortunate to have the guidance of numerous friends and colleagues, including Ivo and Rachel Dawnay, Jane Harari, Warren Hoge, Annie and Patrick Holcroft, David Hooper, Anthony Holden, Anthony Lejeune, Suzanne Lobel, Grant Manheim, Stryker McGuire, Peter McKay, Linda Mortimer, Henry Porter, Carla Powell, William Shawcross, and Sally Taylor. As he has been in the past, Hugo Vickers was generous with his encyclopedic knowledge of the English upper class and the royal family.

Nearly 150 people agreed to be interviewed, and to some seventy who asked not to be named, I give my thanks for their time as well as their indispensable contributions. Those who spoke for the record offered equally important insights and information, for which I am endlessly thankful:

Richard Addis, Dr. Michael Adler, Violet Allen, Bruce Anderson, Jane Atkinson, Laurie Barrington, Peter Bart, Ross Benson, Carl Blade, Nicky Blair, Elsa Bowker, Paul Burrell, Timothy Burrill, Mark Canton, Graydon Carter, Felicity Clark, Michael Colborne, Michael Cole, Major Tim Coles, Bill Condon, Bob Daley, Hugh Davies, William Deedes, Nigel Dempster, Roberto Devorik, Sue Douglas, Deidre Fernand, Fiona Fraser, Johnny Gold, Corinna Gordon, Larry Gordon, Antonia Grant, Suzanne Gregard, Philippe Gudin, Robert Hardman, Jim Hart, William Haseltine, Nicholas Haslam, Max Hastings, Marie Helvin, Stuart Higgins, Christopher Hitchens, Anthony Holden, Mark Hollingsworth, Richard Ingrams, Paul Johnson, Penny Junor, Richard Kay, Andrew Knight, Sandy Lieberson, Marguerite Littman, Mark Lloyd, Jack Martin, Charlie Matthau, Mike Medavoy, Peter McKay, Piers Morgan, Charles Moore, Andrew Morton, Andrew Neil, Bruce Nelson, Farhad Novian, Clive Parsons, Melissa Prophet, David Puttnam, Anna Quindlen, Gail Rebuck, William Reilly, Annie Renwick, John Richardson, Peter Riva, Andrew Roberts, Vivienne Schuster, Nelson Shanks, Tina Sinatra, Cosima Somerset, Robert Spencer, Jim Stevenson, Nona Summers, James Tenner, Taki Theodoracopulos, John Tigrett, Jerry Tokofsky, Barbara Walters, Jack Weiner, Jerry Weintraub, James Whitaker, Michael White, and Fred Zolo.