Anna Pasternak was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and Christ Church College, Oxford. After spending a year working in a publishing house, she took up journalism. She is now twenty-seven years old and contributes to such well-known publications as the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Daily Express, the London Evening Standard and the Spectator. This book tells the true story of the love between a man and a woman, passionate and hopeful, but ultimately hopeless. The woman is Diana, Princess of Wales, the man is James Hewitt. Their romance lasted five years.