Updated with new theories on Diana's death and exposing the author's royal sources for the first time, this definitive biography relates the story of Princess Diana's life as she would have told it. Compiled from more than 30 meetings and conversations between the author and the princess, whom she first met when Diana was just 17 years old, this expos reveals the "real" Diana as someone simply trying to make sense of a life made up of impossible extremes. Privileged yet anguished, beloved yet self-loathing, Diana is portrayed as a woman with both a sense of great joy and a great burden of pain who did her best to balance her private life and her public persona. From before her marriage up until her tragic death, this account paints a revealing portrait of a woman whose image continues to resonate today.