The author of a new tell-all book about Britain's Princess Diana has angered friends of the late royal by "misrepresenting" herself as her close confidant. Tina Brown caused outrage while researching her tome "The Diana Chronicles" by calling up sources and describing herself as a "friend."
One person who refused to talk to the author, told New York Daily News newspaper: "Tina misrepresented herself as a friend of Diana when calling potential sources."
The source claims the princess - who was killed in a 1997 Paris car crash - was "petrified" of Brown as a result of the damning Vanity Fair article, "The Mouse That Roared," she wrote revealing the dark side of Diana's marriage to Prince Charles.
They added: "She was not a friend of Tina Brown, and she was petrified of her for the damage she had done before."
The source also revealed Diana had a different account of the lunch meeting she had with Tina in the summer of 1997 at the Four Seasons restaurant, which the author details as a friendly get together in the first chapter of the book.
The book - which claims Diana pursued Charles out of a desire to be famous and spent two nights with him on the royal train, before they were married - is due to released June 12.
A rep for the publisher Doubleday - which is said to have paid Brown a $2 million advance - said: "Tina Brown did not represent herself as a friend, as there was no need to. She approached her subjects as a reporter and always represented herself as such."
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