Brown writes in a preface: The biography was based on over 250 interviews with men and women – members of Diana's intimate circle, associates in her public life and partners in her philanthropy.

[1] Of the conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Diana in 1997, Brown surveys the evidence extensively and concludes "In any sequence of events of such complexity, speed, and drama, there are bound to be confusions and discrepancies.

After reporting and analyzing the evidence, the paperback edition of The Diana Chronicles carries an Afterword in which the author concludes: "The [inquests] were not so much an inquiry as an exorcism of every lie and myth surrounding the way the Princess died.

[1]According to Simon Schama author of A History of Britain: Nothing comes close to Tina Brown's book for its tight grip on the dark human comedy that was Diana's life and death.

[1]According to Helen Mirren, Academy Award-winning actress: Intensely well researched and an un-put-downable read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet, lifts the expensive net curtains, and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet.

Not only does it put the story of Diana in its proper historical context of British politics, journalism and the changing mores of the past quarter century, but it is also a perfect example of the nosy-parker’s art.

[4]According to The Washington Post: Diana's tragicomedy is Shakespearean in scale, with its slippery royal machinations, its agonized ironies, its seething jealousies and heartbreaking inevitability.

[7]Selina Hastings in The Times Literary Supplement: Like scraping barnacles off an old hulk, Tina Brown has taken the story of Princess Diana, hosed off layers of hearsay and myth, sifted through tons of accumulated legend, and presented us with a fresh and vividly perceptive portrait.