She's remembered as England's Rose, a lady who was proud
of her aristocratic lineage. He's the head of a family with distinctly
Germanic links.
And so it was that Diana, Princess of Wales stood defiant and reminded
an increasingly exasperated Prince Philip of her Spencer roots when she was warned she was in danger
of being stripped of her royal title...
Diana's
latest biographer has been recalling a rather amusing exchange which took place
between the estranged Princess of Wales and her father-in-law, Prince Philip at the height of her divorce proceedings from Prince Charles.
Speaking to Sky News to promote the newly published Diana Chronicles, Tina Brown offered a new tidbit of information about a
woman whose life and personality has been probed like no other.
During her research for the book, which she intonated has been wrongly depicted
as an anti-Diana tome, the former Editor of Vanity Fair recalls how she met a royal insider who told of Diana’s
defiance against an increasingly exasperated Duke of Edinburgh.
"If you had spent your life in a warship you would not know about taste"
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's response to a snob who questioned her grandson Prince Andrew's taste due to the supermarket style design of his Sunninghill home
