This revealing biography of the Princess Royal by leading royal writer, Brian Hoey, who has known her for more than twenty-five years, tells the story of her life and work today. It includes an intimate account of how she survived the traumatic break-up of her first marriage to Mark Phillips, to all the world a fairy tale gone wrong, and then succeeded in persuading her family to accept Tim Laurence as her new husband, of whom this book offers the most authoritative and revealing portrait.
Brian Hoey has talked to Princess Anne's closest personal friends, such as Andrew Parker Bowles and Malcom Wallace, two men who have known her since she was a rebellious teenager and seen her mature into the caring, hard-working Princess she is today. And James Beaton, the Princess's personal bodyguard, who was shot five times during the attempted kidnapping, tells for the first time what it was like to be involved in the dramatic episode.
