THE QUEEN AND DI

The complex relationship between the Queen and her daughter-in-law Diana, Princess of Wales is examined in detail for the first time. The Queen & Di charts the sometimes touching and often fraught association between two powerful and determined women from the moment Diana stepped over the Queens threshold at Balmoral as a weekend guest in the 1980s to her death in 1997, and shows how the monarchy was affected by the tragedy. Chronicling the parallels in their lives as well as their contrasting styles and the differing conventions of their times, Seward provides new insights into the behind-closed-doors scenes of Buckingham Palace as Dianas fairytale marriage began slowly to unravel and events spiralled out of control.