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Tina Brown’s new biography, The Diana Chronicles -— published just weeks before the 10th anniversary of the Princess of Wales’ death —- is burning up the bestseller lists.

We caught up with the pathbreaking former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor, who championed the idea of popular “buzz,” to ask her about all the attention this critical and commercial success is getting.

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1. Why do you think the story of a divorced British princess remains so
captivating to Americans?

Diana’s story is really as a mythic as a Grimm’s fairy story. It is far more than simply being a divorced princess. She was young, beautiful and innocent and found that life behind palace walls was a mesh of lies, intrigue and sexual cynicism. But she refused to let those palace walls contain her and sublimated her pain to become a global force for good.

2. One theme of the book seems to be your own ambivalence toward the British aristocracy. Did Diana cause any change in the way they operate?

Diana was really a revolutionary but the amazing thing about it was that she was born and bred inside the aristocratic system she ultimately rejected.

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