Andrew Morton, Famed Princess Diana Biographer, Comments On Verdict
As we posted yesterday, a decade has passed since the death of one of the most beloved and revered figures in history, Princess Diana.
In his inimitable way, when I pressed Mr. Morton for a comment on the official verdict of Princess Diana, he was blunt and without ambiguity:
"The most expensive statement of the blindingly obvious in British history. It has taken 10 years to come to the same conclusion as most right thinking people came to in 10 minutes."
Morton, who in the year's since his controversial book on the Princess was first published (1992), has become an authority on the Royals. Based on the time I spent with the author, I suspect Morton felt very sympathetic towards Diana's pain and heartache. Not only did she suffer within a loveless marriage by a husband who did very little to hide his affair with a much older (and outwardly less "attractive") Camilla Parker Bowles (also married), but she was forced to endure much of this in silence out of a sense of duty to her position within the Royal family.
Here's is what Diana said in a BBC interview regarding Morton's biography on her:
QUESTION: The Queen described 1992 as her `annus horribilis', and it was in that year that Andrew Morton's book about you was published. Did you ever meet Andrew Morton or personally help him with the book? DIANA: I never met him, no.QUESTION: Did you ever personally assist him with the writing of his book?
DIANA: A lot of people saw the distress that my life was in, and they felt it was a supportive thing to help in the way that they did.QUESTION: Did you allow your friends, your close friends, to speak to Andrew Morton?
DIANA: Yes, I did. Yes, I did.QUESTION: Why?
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DIANA: I was at the end of my tether. I was desperate. I think I was so fed up with being seen as someone who was a basket-case, because I am a very strong person and I know that causes complications in the system that I live in.
