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Princess Diana's ghost biography 

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Britain's Princess Diana's ghost is the heroine of a controversial new book.

The tome - titled 'Diana: The Ghost Biography' - sees the late royal rise from her grave to haunt her former husband Prince Charles and his new wife Camilla.

Diana's horribly disfigured spirit takes up residence in Balmoral Castle, where she lavishes attention on her sons Princes William and Harry before whisking them away from the "cold" and "unloving" royal family.

Scottish author Emma Tennant says she wrote the book to highlight the Princess of Wales' legacy of warmth and compassion and is not afraid of offending royal sensibilities.

She told Scotland's The Scotsman newspaper: "It is quite wrong to suggest that it is an attack on the Royal Family. It is really a critique of people being stuck in the manners and mores of a bygone age.

"I have had no feedback from Clarence House and don't expect to. I'd be really quite surprised if anybody in that family reads a book."

But the book has been described as "exploitative" and in "poor taste" by royal biographer Hugo Vickers.

He said: "When I heard about this my heart sank. The idea is exploitative and smacks of bad taste.

"One rather hoped that Princess Diana and her memory could be left to rest in peace after all we have gone through in terms of inquests and hearings."

Meanwhile, another autobiographical novel is causing the royal family grief.

Norman Lonsdale - the actor who was reportedly the last lover of Princess Margaret - died aged 81 at the weekend, leaving uncertainty over what will happen to the manuscript of his potentially explosive novel 'The Unexpected Hero'.

A source said: "He was very discreet in life, but what we're wondering is whether he has spilled the beans in the book, albeit in a fictionalised way."

But a former royal lady-in-waiting said the actor would never betray the princess.

She said: "Norman would never have done anything to damage Margaret, much less appear in such tawdry nonsense He was a very elegant man."