Diana: Princess of Wales by Patrick Kinmonth (Editor), Mario Testino (Photographer)

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Synopsis

Just five months before her tragic death in August 1997, Princess Diana was photographed by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair. Diana, Princess of Wales by Mario Testino at Kensington Palace brings together the most beautiful images from this last portrait sitting, displaying Diana in a state of relaxation and intimacy unlike any other. The selection of about seventy photographs includes many unseen images which, alongside previously published images, fill in the untold story of the shoot.

Features include

• Foreword by Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair
• Introduction by Meredith Etherington-Smith, who played a major role in arranging the sitting in 1997
• Interview with Mario Testino conducted by Hamish Bowles Candid, tender, poignant, provocative -- the photographs by Mario Testino in Diana, Princess of Wales at Kensington Palace allow readers an entree into the private world of a beloved icon where an uncensored view - of a woman who influenced the world - is on display.

  This book is being launched to coincide with an exhibition at Kensington Palace, opening in November 2005.

  Biography

  Kinmonth is a writer, fashion editor, and set and costume designer.

  Mario Testino was born in Lima, Peru, and came of age as a photographer in London in the late 1970s. He has been widely published in "Vogue, Vanity Fair" and other magazines. His photographs of Princess Diana have been shown at Kensington Palace in London, and he has also received commissions to photograph the Prince of Wales, Prince William and Prince Harry. His most recent major exhibition, "Portraits, " opened at the National Gallery in London in 2002 and toured for the next two years, stopping in cities including Milan, Amsterdam and Tokyo.