{"product_id":"ever-after-9781250052889","title":"Ever After","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs in her superb biographies of other royal and celebrated women, Anne Edwards's\u003ci\u003e Ever After\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Diana's many fans are sure to be delighted by Edwards's intimate prose and detailed descriptions.\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250052889\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 5.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Anne Edwards","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38016779485365,"sku":"9781250052889","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_891a75ea-7e04-4d0e-a259-5d65243ec42b.jpg?v=1609160917","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ever-after-9781250052889","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}