Diana - Princess of Wales by Mario Testino

Princess Diana had a great capacity to get on with people, whatever their social status. When she did meet patients they responded very positively to her. It is said by some hospital staff that, Diana would sometimes visit in the evening, away from the glare of the media. True, these were often photographed, but this wasn’t her motivation for seeing patients. She often spent time visiting the homeless, or terminally ill patients in various hospices.

Her heart of sympathy extended to many people, in whatever situation they were in. However, to appreciate the accomplishments of Princess Diana we should not focus on these human weakness, which without exception, are common to us all.ĭiana had a sincere and genuine interest in other people. Diana’s personal difficulties are well documented.

Through her marriage to Prince Charles, she joined one of the most famous families in the world and became an object of intense media interest. It includes an appendix with information detailing the dresses featured in the Work and identifying those on display at Kensington Palace.Īrt Sale titles are new books but might have slight damage.Diana was a shy 20-year-old woman when she became engaged to Prince Charles and was thrust into the media spotlight. Chapters are arranged according to the various dresses worn by Diana. It includes foreword by Meredith Etherington-Smith, who played a mayor role in arranging the sitting in 1997 and an interview with Mario Testino about his recollections of the sitting and as well as a contribution from Hamish Bowles, European editor-at-large of American Vogue. The book is edited by Patrick Kinmonth, long-term collaborator and friend of Testino's. The selection of about seventy photographs includes many unseen images which, alongside previously published images, fill in the untold story of the shoot. The book brings together the most beautiful images from this last portrait sitting, displaying Diana in a state of relaxation and intimacy unlike any other. Just five months before her tragic death in August 1997, Diana Princess of Wales was photographed by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair. Inside Princess Diana's last portrait session.

Diana - Princess of Wales by Mario Testino