Diana: Once Upon a Time

by Mary Clarke (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $7.30

  This is an account of the Princess of Wales's formative years told by Mary Clarke - her confidante, friend and former nanny. Diana, bewildered by her parents' recent divorce, had already locked one former nanny in the bathroom when Clarke arrived to take up her post with the Spencer family. But Diana took to her new nanny and Mary became like a second mother to her. Many of the keys to the Princess's personality are locked in the memories of Clarke: her home and school life, her eating habits, family relationships, childhood daydreams, pleasures and miseries are recalled and explained.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $4.43

  Diana was the girl who was meant to be a boy. The third daughter - loved, to be sure - but a disappointment to her parents, nonetheless. The Earl and Countess Spencer separated as soon as a male heir to Althorp was born. Diana was an abandoned and bewildered child - she had already locked one nanny in the loo and thrown another's clothes on the roof. But she turned gladly to her new nanny, Mary Clarke, who became more of a mother to the vulnerable girl than anyone. In this memoir, Mark Clarke describes the girl who became the Prince of Wales's sweetheart and then the world's.