Once upon a time, a beautiful young girl grew up in sheltered privilege at Althorp in Northamptonshire.
Still in her teens, she was betrothed to an older, rich and very powerful man. Her marriage raised her to the pinnacle of fashionable society and she became celebrated for her looks and style. But her private life was less successful. Although the world was at her feet, her husband very obviously loved not her, but his mistress.
