Tina Brown: Gold Digger Diana "Rode the Royal Train"

Just four months before the tenth anniversary of Diana's death, Tina Brown (ex-editor of Vanity Fair) has revisited the marriage of Charles and Diana in a new book, "The Diana Chronicles", which presents a more balanced-- but if anything, even bleaker-- portrait of the marriage and its main players. Among the many sensational allegations in the book, Brown claims that:

Diana ruthlessly pursued Charles because of his position. When her mother demanded to know whether Diana loved the Prince or loved "what he is", Diana retorted: "What's the difference?"

Camilla, until now seen as Charles's true love, was also interested in him only because he was the heir to the throne.

Camilla began her adulterous affair with Charles in retaliation for her husband Andrew's infidelity.

Diana twice had pre-marital sex with Charles on the Royal train, then cooperated with denials by the Palace to preserve her image of virginity.

Diana falsely convinced herself during their honeymoon that Charles had resumed his affair with Camilla-- yet the Prince remained faithful until his wife's eating disorders and "loony" tantrums drove him back to Camilla.

Diana's claim that she tried to commit suicide while pregnant with William was a sympathy-seeking lie.

Diana had no intention of marrying Dodi Fayed, whom she romanced purely to infuriate the Palace. Instead, she was plotting to land a far richer man, American financier Teddy Forstmann, as her next husband.

Charles, for all his bitterness over Diana, was still somewhat in love with her during her final years. In the hours after the Paris crash, he clung to the hope that she would survive, pledging to bring her home and care for her.

According to the Daily Mail, Brown is said to have received a $2 million advance from Random House, a company formerly headed by her husband. With 200,000 copies scheduled to be released in America and Britain, and with the publishers already taking advance orders on Amazon, it is certain to be a bestseller. Serialization of the book is scheduled to begin with the next issue of Vanity Fair.