Royal photographer offers 'Portrait of a Princess'
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(CNN) -- With her marriage to Prince Charles, a girl named Diana became a princess and spent the rest of her life in the glaring eye of the camera. Though much of the attention was unwanted, a select group employed by the royal family had complete access as official royal photographers.
Jayne Fincher, the only female royal photographer working with the explicit approval and full cooperation of Buckingham Palace, snapped her first picture of the 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer in 1980. In 1997, she was still photographing the princess just one month before her death and produced some of the most famous, and telling, images of her funeral. In the process, she created one of the largest and most dramatic set of photographs of the most photographed woman in the world.
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"Diana: Portrait of a Princess" features more than 500 snapshots, portraits, candids and outtakes of Princess Diana and the extended royal family. The collection, 75 percent never before published, celebrates the life of Diana upon the first anniversary of her untimely death. Here is Diana the fiancee, wife and ex-wife as well as Diana the philanthropist, ambassador, mother and fashion muse.
Included in the book, published by Simon & Schuster Editions in association with Callaway Editions, is intimate text including anecdotes taken from more than 18 years of royal access, including Fincher's recollection of Diana:
"And then there was her unforgettable charm and immense physical beauty ... male colleagues always called her Blue Eyes and that's my most vivid memory of her -- those enormous cornflower-blue eyes. I miss her."
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