Secure The First Lady Diana: Lady Diana Spencer 1710-1735 Depicted By Victoria Massey Rendered As Manuscript

not usually a fan of historical fiction, but this book caught my eye, It was amazing to read the details involved inth century norms and so sad to read about Lady Diana's short life ofyears.
This is a charming, insightful, interesting, wellresearched and informative book, I thought it was going to be a bit naff, considering they used a quote from 'Royalty Digest' on the front cover, but I was really gripped.
As the first Lady Diana Spencer's life was quite short and not especially interesting in itself unlike that of

her more famous namesake and descendant, the author concentrates more on her relationship with her grandmother Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, who was clearly quite crazy and horrible.
I also loved the way that the author retained the idiosyncraticth century spelling in the many sources from which she quotes.
A gem. Fascinating biography which provides a social history of the earlyth century English aristocracy, a privileged elite who lived fast, partied hard, and died young.


The Lady Diana Spencer of theth century was raised by her grandmother, the largerthanlife figure of Sarah Churchill,st Duchess of Marlborough, friend and advisor of Queen Anne, and wife of the victor of the battle of Blenheim.
Massey's book is necessarily as much a biographical study of Duchess Sarah as it is of Lady Diana, and I think it is all the much better for it.
Lady Diana Spencer died in, aged, She was tall, fair haired, charismatic, beautiful, sympathetic, adored by those who knew her, . . The similarities between seventeenthandtwentieth century Diana Spencers can be quite eerie at times, Both lost their mothers at six one to death, one to divorce and both were connected to the Prince of Wales of their times.
The first Diana became Diana, Duchess of Bedford, while the second, of course, became Princess of Wales.
In the years of the first Diana was built the structure that now houses the Diana, Princess of Wales memorial museum at Althorp.
Both were raised among the royal children of their time, One suffered from bulimia, while the other suffered a similar illness in the last years of her life and became tragially slender.
Both died very young, and at the passing of the first her leadlined coffin was placed on a gun carriage and taken through the streets to the sounds of crying and bells tolling.


Quite interesting, well written and wonderfully researched and, as I said, it can be quite eerie.
Lady Diana Spencer, of Althorp and London, tall and beautiful, a lover of music and the arts, treasured by every young aristocrat, earmarked for marriage to the Prince of Wales, haunted by the death of loved ones, and destined to die at a tragically early age.
But this Lady Diana, in a life which was uncannily similar to the most recent holder of her title, lived nearlyyears ago.
In this entertaining and informative biography the reader watches Lady Diana grow up, follows her education, her training for the aristocracy and shares her passion for art and music.
Her marriage to Lord John Russell their elevation to the title of Duke and Duchess of Bedford the sad death of Lady Dianas first child, and her subsequent miscarriages her early death are all chronicled in this deeply researched and empathetic biography.
This first Lady Diana was a captivating, caring beauty whose untimely death, after such a short, vivacious life, was deeply mourned.
Readers will be as fascinated with the life of Diana of the earlys as they were with the late Princess of Wales and a study of this life can be the means by which many will be able to appreciate the history of eighteenthcentury Britain.
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