Ever After - by Anne Edwards (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"Diana's many fans are sure to be delighted by Edwards's intimate prose and detailed descriptions." -Publishers Weekly.

Perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown.

"This is the stuff of fairy tales," said the Archbishop of Canterbury on July 23, 1981, after the 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer arrived in a glass coach for her wedding to Prince Charles. But everyone knows how that fairy tale ended.

Drawing upon intensive research and interviews, acclaimed biographer Anne Edwards, well-known for her revelatory and incisive books on members of Britain's royal family, here uncovers new details of Diana's life and her search for love; of her family background; and of a betrayal, historic in its outcome. What the public did not know at the time of her storybook wedding was the true story of Diana's troubled childhood-of the cold, autocratic grandfather who disdained her father, who was himself an abusive husband obsessed with having a son to inherit the Spencer wealth and title.

When Diana married Prince Charles, she joined the equally troubled House of Windsor, and was caught up in a plot Shakespearean in its deception and eventual tragic ending. Anne Edwards paints a vivid portrait of a woman desperate in her marriage, fearful of her life, who became devious-and often brilliant-in the moves she played in a treacherous royal chess game.

As in her superb biographies of other royal and celebrated women, Anne Edwards's Ever After transcends the one-sided views of Diana in a work that must be called definitive. At long last, and with all of the insight and narrative drama that have marked her previous bestsellers, Edwards brings us the first full-scale, authoritative portrait of a more intelligent, more resourceful, and sometimes more ruthless woman than we have seen before.

Review Quotes

"A first-class piece of research and reconstruction graced by a first-class writing talent, with a startling royal family scandal buried at the heart of the story." --Barbara Tuchman on Anne Edwards' Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

"Intensely absorbing" --Publishers Weekly

"The queen of biography outflashes the paparazzi in the life of the late Prince of Wales." --Kirkus Reviews

"Diana's fans are sure to be delighted by Edwards's intimate prose and detailed descriptions." --Publishers Weekly

"[A] fascinating book...Anne Edwards has provided a biography worthy of her reputation, one that...illuminates its subject with new material and fresh thinking." --St. Louis Times-Dispatch

About the Author

Anne Edwards (1927 -2024) was the author of many biographies including the New York Times bestseller that became a classic in the field: Vivien Leigh: A Biography. Other acclaimed titles include Early Reagan: The Rise to Power; Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor; and Katharine Hepburn: A Biography. Edwards was a former president of the Authors Guild and a sought-after speaker. She and her late husband, musical theater historian Stephen Citron, lived in Beverly Hills, California.