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Andrew Morton (writer)
English journalist and writer
For other people with the same name, see Andrew Morton.
Andrew David Morton (born 1953) is an English journalist and writer who has published biographies of royal figures such as Diana, Princess of Wales, and celebrity subjects including Tom Cruise, Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Monica Lewinsky; several of his books have been unauthorised and contain contested assertions.
Early life and career
Morton was born and raised in Halton, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire,[1] His father ran a picture framing business. He attended Temple Moor Boys' Grammar School, Leeds and Sussex University where he studied history.[2][3] After university, Morton became a tabloid journalist and worked for three London tabloids, the Daily Star, News of the World, and Daily Mail, until 1987.[4]
Biographies of royal figures
Andrew Morton wrote a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales called Diana: Her True Story. Unable to interview Diana in person, he passed along interview questions thr
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Diana Foreword
Even at a distance of 25 years, it is a scarcely believable story. Hollywood producers would dismiss the script as much too far-fetched; a beautiful but desperate princess, an unknown writer, an amateur go-between and a book that would change the Princess’s life forever.
In 1991 Princess Diana was approaching 30. She had been in the limelight all of her adult life. Her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981 was described as a ‘fairytale’ by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the popular imagination, the Prince and Princess, blessed with two young sons, Princes William and Harry, were the glamorous and sympathetic face of the House of Windsor. The very idea that their ten-year marriage was in dire trouble was unthinkable – even to the notoriously imaginative tabloid press. Commenting on a joint tour of Brazil that year, the Sunday Mirror described them as presenting a ‘united front to the world’, their closeness sending a ‘shiver of excitement’ around the massed media ranks.
Shortly afterwards I was to learn the unvarnished truth. The unlikely venue for these ext
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Princess Diana directly cooperated Morton for his unofficial biography Diana: Her True Story
Tim Graham/Getty ImagesAndrew Morton, author of the 1992 bestseller Diana: Her True Story, revealed that he paid off Terence Donovan, a prominent British photographer and film director, to keep secret the Princess of Wales’ cooperation with his biography. In an interview with The Radio Times, the author said that Donovan blackmailed him unless Morton paid him £70,000 for an iconic picture of Diana wearing a tiara.
The Princess had given the writer a series of photos which she had thought had been taken by her official photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Donovan was well known for taking photographs of prominent celebrities and high-society individuals. When the first extract of the book was serialised in The Sunday Times, Donovan’s photo appeared on the front page of the paper and was misattributed to Demarchelier. The photographer threatened to divulge that Diana directly cooperated with the book if the price demands for his picture weren’t met.
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