![]() ![]() ![]() The first chapter begins with Diana's final hectic evening in Paris on August 30/31 1997, then darts back through a welter of Fayeds to the author's last sight of Diana at lunch in the Four Seasons in New York, in July: "The gently flushed skin of her face wasn't just peachy it was softer than a child's velveteen rabbit." Diana is en route with Dodi for the Alma tunnel when the chapter abruptly ends, the grisly story of the crash to be taken up again nearly 400 pages later.Ä«rown's treatment of her subject is frequently muddled: at first Diana's mood on her last chaotic night was "sour", but, a few pages later, "here she was on a hot night in August revelling in high-life flash, pursued by the farting motorbikes of the international press". ![]() Traditional "chronicles" necessarily involve chronology: Brown is not bound by such considerations. ![]()
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