Diana - The Last Word
by Simone Simmons and Ingrid Seward
Orion, $165
It won't be. The princes William and Harry appealed in 1998 to let their mother rest in peace, but that's unlikely in their lifetimes. Simone Simmons, for those who don't read the tabloids, was a 'psychic healer' to the Princess of Wales. Opening this so-called tell-all book at random, one encounters, 'I hope his cock shrivels up!' Diana had apparently just heard that James Hewitt, who was 'as interesting as a knitting pattern', had done a deal for a book about their affair. Simmons reports: 'I administered some healing and got her a cup of camomile tea.' Of Diana's car-crash death in Paris, Simmons says she had 'a terrible sense of doom', but she was watching the TV news at the time and this 'premonition' was a bit late. In 2002, Simmons sold the Mail on Sunday newspaper the claim that Prince Philip had called Diana 'a harlot' and 'a trollop', which was strenuously denied. Delve into this trash, by all means, and join the debate about why people buy such books and what they hope to gain reading them.
