The only site I can find which still offers electronic
greeting cards is Angel Winks Heavenly
Post Card Shoppe,
which offers a section of cards for both Mother Teresa and Princess
Diana. One other thing: if you click on the link which says, "Click
here to see more card choices", you will notice that she offers a
category that says, Your Own Picture Use Your Own Picture and Music, so
if you had a favorite picture of Diana, you could use that
instead. If you are aware of any other sites which still offer
Diana electronic greeting cards, please e-mail me to let me know and I
will add them.
NJ Home
Guide still offers a 2006 calendar, but you
have to send them your e-mail address to get it. Diana's Dress
Auction
offers a calendar that you can
copy right away to an 8 1/2" x 11" page.
Tilly-Bear's Diana
Memory is a pamphlet
that you can get by sending her a stamped, self-addressed envelope. She
sells teddy bears and teddy bear charms, so if you like bears you
should click the link to Tilly-Bear's Mall at the bottom of the page.
Some
wallpaper and screen savers are still out there. The Wulfert Corp.
features a Princess Diana screen saver and wallpaper on its main page. Download-by-Net
has a Princess Diana Remembrance Screensaver with an instrumental
version of "Candle in the Wind". Princess Diana Tribute
has won several awards and includes a piano score.
An Australian fan has a site
with a number of downloads of wallpaper,
desktop themes, and
screensavers available as part
of a site called Diana's
Divine Destiny. Take time to
explore, since the site has plenty to
keep you occupied for quite some time: a trivia quiz, coloring pages, a
jigsaw puzzle, a Cowmilla section, and loads of good links,
including a link to Team Highgrove,
which hosts several sites including William and Harry United, Beatrice
and Eugenie, and Royally Screwed (note: you have to have a good sense
of humor to visit that one--the humor is somewhat risque).
You will also find a list of Diana groups, a section to place
classified
ads, a chronology of significant dates in her life, and information
about
the Diana Circle, a group of people from all over the world who meet
outside
the gates of Kensington Palace on the anniversary of her death. There
are branches of the organization in the UK, the US, and Australia.
One of the most
elaborate and
professionally done sites on the internet devoted to Diana is at
Princess
Diana, Princess of Wales: Photos, Pictures, Facts, News. It
came online around 2001, is totally non-profit, and
is a complex of several sites in Britain and Germany devoted to being a
tribute to Diana. They do a fantastic job of keeping it up to date, and
have first rate material. The British
multimedia part of the site is
loaded
with all kinds of video clips, wallpaper, screensavers, games,
puzzles, and other free goodies. This site has also launched a Princess
Diana Pictures site with over 300 photos, screensavers,
photomosaics, wallpaper, and e-cards, which is fully accessible only
with membership, but the good news is that membership is free!
FAQ
about Diana Princess of Wales painstakingly answers thirty-three
questions
about Diana's life, marriage, and death, as well as such items as how
tall
she was, her hobbies, and kinship to Charles and others. It is well
worth accessing, along with her recently added page on Princess
Diana's ladies in waiting, which took a lot of research to compile.
Both are part of Yvonne's
Royalty Home Page, which has
extensive links to information about other
European royal families.
Portrait
of a Lady offers a very
extensive portfolio of photos on its site,
which is one of the better factual pages about Princess Diana. One of
the highlights of this site is the BBC interview section, which
contains four files of audio and video clips from the Panorama
interview which you can listen to and view in Real Audio. There are a
total of 21 minutes and 10 seconds on the four topics of the media, the
marriage, the royal family, and her problems with bulimia. Another nice
section is the Portfolio and quotes: you click on a picture, and
underneath it you get a quote, with the date and circumstances when it
was said. The Wedding Program section includes an hour-by-hour timeline
of events of that day.
Royal
Wedding Gallery is a site that has photos of all the Windsor
weddings
of the 20th century from King George VI and the Queen Mum to all of
their
grandchildren, as well as the families of the Gloucesters and the
Kents.
Weddings
of the Past was posted by the BBC as part of their special
report
on the wedding of the Earl and Countess of Wessex, and is a summary of
the weddings of the Queen, her children, and Princess Margaret. It also
features some interesting links to stories on the newly-married couple
and royal weddings in general.
For a nostalgic
look at social
conditions and television coverage of her wedding day, go to The
Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana - Wednesday, 29th
July
1981. This site mentions how much various items cost, including
the tv, vcr, and tapes one would have used to tape the wedding, as well
as mentioning what each network was providing in terms of the coverage
on an hourly basis. A great resource for anyone looking for period
detail
about the day.
Diana
was the Colonel-in-Chief
of The Royal Hampshire Regiment, and the tribute honoring her at their
web site could stand a little tweaking. Not all the pages on the Berlin
visit site load, and the page for the Presentation of Colors, 1986 does
not come up at all. There is nothing wrong with the third page, which
features
other pictures taken during her visits. Sounds exasperating enough to
skip
it, but there are some rarely seen photos of her in a beautiful
turquoise
blue and white outfit which can be enlarged if you click on them, so the
site is worth checking out. A site listing all the regiments of
which
Diana was Colonel-in-Chief, and providing links to those regiments, can
be found in the biography
section of the Land Forces of Britain, the Empire, and
Commonwealth:
an Historical Encyclopedia site.
Diana's
voice coach, Peter Settelen,
has a web site where you can read the text of several
of Diana's speeches. This link takes you directly to a speech she
made
on June 1, 1993 about "Women and Mental Health", and below it you will
find links to the following speeches: a speech on Eating Disorders
given
on April 27, 1993, a speech on Women and Children with AIDS given on
Sesptember
8, 1993, one titled "Does the Community Care?" given on November 17,
1993,
and the famous "Time and Space" speech delivered on December 3, 1993.
For more
things said by Diana,
BrainyQuote offers a selection
of quotes said by Princess Diana. Unfortunately, they do not give
details as to when or where they were said (This is a real annoyance to
me, since one of the things I have been doing these past two years that
have interfered with updating this site has been working as one of six
senior editors on the soon-to-be published Yale Dictionary of Quotations,
where we had to nail it down as to source, date, and chapter, if it
came from a book!)
Map
of My Journey with Princess Diana is a site that has been around for
a long time, and there you can read Maria's poetry, and her
accounts
and pictures of visits she has made to places and exhibits connected
with
Princess Diana. One of her poems is featured on the package of the CD
that
is sold through the gift shop of the Pink
Ribbons Crusade.
Diana's chef, Darren McGrady,
has his own site titled The Royal
Chef. It contains a monthly
newsletter with information about his cooking
classes and events at the Market Street Culinary School, recipes,
biographical
information about himself, an interview, press clippings, and links to
sites that are of interest to him. The newest addition is an online
store where you can buy hard to find kitchen gadgets like he uses or
traditional Scottish shortbread that he makes using the finest
ingredients from the recipe he used for the Queen. He is a board member
of the Pink Ribbons
Crusade, so you can contact him if you think Pink Ribbons might be
successfully
exhibited in your part of the country.
Musical Heaven has production
credits, cast list, and a list of songs from Queen of Hearts, the musical about Princess Diana
that played off-Broadway in 1999.
Two sites find links between
Princess Diana and two icons of popular culture: Xenia and James Bond!
The first one, More
Alike Than You May Think: Xenia, Warrior Princess and Diana, Princess
of
Wales is written by an
unabashed Xenia fan who cheerfully confesses
that there is no hope for saving him from his state; and then he
proceeds
to write a very incisive and thought provoking comparison of
similarities
shared by them in regards to character development, trauma, healing,
redefining
themselves, and their relationships with family and friends. The second
is a photo album of Diana's
appearances at various Bond-related events, such as Bond film premieres,
and the occasion when Diana smashed a prop champagne bottle over
Charles'
head when they visited one of the Bond sets. The site also notes that
an
adverted kidnapping of Princess Diana and her sons at EuroDisney was a
plot element in John Gardner's novel, Never Send Flowers (1993), which
is still available from various online booksellers.
Some fans of Princess Diana are
writing fictional series about her. Two sites which originate from
Japan
but are available in English are: Diana
Lives On! Serialized Memorial Fiction, which also has links to
photo, video, and voice galleries; and Diana
Fiction Memorial Library,
which recently added three more series:
Goodwill
Ambassador: Diana in the Snow (at the Olympics), Adventures of Lady
Diana: the Tasmanian Affair, and
Diana and the Legends.
Diana's
Lovers is a guide to the ten
men in her life, written by London Net
in a humorous style. According to them, the lovers were Prince Charles
("big ears, big ego, big trouble"), Barry Mannakee ("body to body
guard"), David Waterhouse, James Gilbey ("loyalty gets its reward"),
James Hewitt, Oliver Hoare, Will Carling, Dr. Hasnat Khan ("knew how to
care for a woman"), Bryan Adams, and Dodi Fayed.
On a less passionate note, a site called Top Synergy analyzed "The
ABCs of Diana's Relationships" in regards to how she
was shaped by her childhood and those forces influenced her personal
relationships with others.
An astrological site called Adze
has a hot couples section which profiled the astrological
compatibility of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. A lot of it was
on target, though I do wonder about their advice "to share interests in
computers and flying". Maybe they got this royal couple confused with
Andrew
and Sarah? (Note: the site has also added a compatibility
chart for Prince William and his girlfirend Kate Middleton. Wonder
if she has seen it?) A more realistic assessment of the relationship
between Charles,
Diana, and Camilla is found in About.com's Divorce Support article on The
Divorce of Charles and Diana.
The women's
network Ivillage
features an
astrological
analysis of Diana's personality, which links
her with the Moon, Venus, and
Neptune, and the goddesses Ceres, Juno, Athena, and Vesta.
Princess
Diana - A Meteor that Lives in Our Hearts interprets
Diana's life and death according to the principles of Chinese astrology
and Feng-shui.
A web site called
Divine Plan
has a personality
profile
of Princess Diana which is quite accurate. It describes her role
as
"compassionate feelings", then proceeds to analyzes several key traits
in terms of positive and negative aspects. It concludes that she
successfully
used her profile "to teach us how to hold, touch and actively care for
everyone on this planet. Let us all learn from this great individual
how
to give more with deepened love and tenderness."
Fine Line
Graphology offers an
analysis
of Diana's handwriting, which examines emotional characteristics,
mental
processes, physical and material drives, personality traits, and social
behaviour. A longer and more technical analysis of her handwriting can
also be found at
handwriting.com
An organization called Reflexology
Research offers Foot
Reflexology and Princess Diana,
which is a listing of articles and
television shows that discussed her interest in reflexology. Most are
from
tabloids in both the UK and the US, but a few newspaper articles and
more
mainstream magazines are included. If you know of any other articles on
this topic, they would appreciate hearing from you.
One of the oddest pages I have
run across on the internet is Princess
Di Sightings, which is part of the Dead Elvis Page. Some of the
contributors
are obviously joking, but others are quite serious. Are they having
royal
visitations? It's up to you to decide, and to contribute your own
accounts
if you have sighted Diana. There are also links for Mother Teresa,
Elvis,
and Mrs. Olsen of the Folger's Coffee commercials.
The
Guardian published The
Diana Papers, a collection of papers about Diana compiled by the US
government that were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The
documents include reports on security concerns for her wedding and a
candid
assessment of attitudes toward the Royal Family, but the majority deal
with her involvement in the land mines campaign and the fear that both
the US and UK governments had about her participation.
There are several interesting, thoughtfully-constructed sites
dealing with Diana and the press. The best of these is the web site that was
launched to accompany
the PBS documentary The
Princess and the Press, which provides an excellent analysis of
Diana's
relationship with journalists a link to the Panorama interview, and a
complete
transcript of the program under the section, About this report.
(Unfortunately, the documentary has been out-of-print for many years.) A well-documented
scholarly article dealing with Princess Diana's image and the media is
"Goodbye
England's Rose": Princess Diana, the Monarchy, and Englishness.
Finally, UK Law Online at the Law School
of the University of Leeds offers an interesting analysis of the effect
of Diana's death upon the press and privacy laws in Princess
Diana, Privacy Laws, and Press Freedom in the United Kingdom.
Death
of Diana, Princess of Wales is
a site that allows you to chronologically
follow the continuity of the news coverage that occurred the night of
her
death, and note how it changed as the news became increasingly serious.
It is definitely worth a look for serious students of media, since the
site is hosted by an organization which specializes in communications
history.
An archive
of tasteful newspaper cartoons published during the week of Princess
Diana's
death is available at Princess
Diana Editorial Cartoons.
Cable channel Court TV, has Princess
Diana's will among its many celebrity wills. Another site connected with Diana's
death has a complete Order
of Service for her funeral, which gives the text of all the
prayers,
the titles and composers of all the music, and directions to the
congregation
about the sequence of events. It does not include Earl
Spencer's tribute.
Tony
Blair's Statement on the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales on the morning
of August 31, 1997, which popularized the phrase "the people's
princess"
is on the 10 Downing Street site.
A
Funeral in Turkey is a very moving article written by a British
writer
who was in Turkey at the
time of
Diana's death, and wrote
of its impact on tourists and locals alike. In the note about
himself at
the bottom of the
page, he mentions that he began writing as a hobby after Diana's
death, and
this article was
the result. Just another example of how far reaching her influence can
be...
A
thoughtful article on the changes
in Britain and the Royal Family provoked by Diana's death can be found
in the National Review article, Forever
Young: the Transfiguration of Princess Diana.
On
Greek Tragedy and Princess Diana's Funeral was published about
a year after the funeral, so it is more objective, and examines the
event
with the context of tragic Greek drama.
Some of
the memorial and one
year commemorative sites are still up, and among the best of these are
CNN,
Time
Magazine, the Washington
Post, and the BBC.
The People Magazine tribute is no
longer available, but if you type Princess Diana in the search box next
to where it says News, you can get an assortment of recent stories
about
her and her sons. (Note this site is extremley slow to load, so be
patient.)
Salon Magazine also published several stories under the heading,
"Diana's
Unquiet Death." A unique anniversary tribute is Midwest
Today's lengthy article about Princess Diana's visit to Chicago in
1996.
For a thorough discussion of
the legal aspects involved in the issue of the use of Diana's name or
image,
see Alan Story's Owning
Diana: From People's Princess to Private Property.
Susan and Stephen Dann have done
extensive research on the controversial use of Diana's image in the
campaign
to persuade people to use seat belts. Their article titled The
Appropriateness and Value of Using Princess Diana's Image in Road
Safety
Seatbelt Campaigns: A Preliminary Study, later appeared
in the Australian Journal
of Marketing. It's in a pdf
file, so if
you don't already have Adobe software on your computer, you will have
to
download it free from the Adobe site.
One of the most
thoughtful and
incisive pieces of writing about Diana's mental state is Robert Young's
"Princess
Diana, 'The Constituency of the Rejected ', and Psychotherapeutic
Studies".
The
author is a psychiatrist at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies at
the University of Sheffield, so he has more knowledge about such
problems
than either Chris Hutchins, Sally Bedell Smith, and Penny Junor, all
of
whom have written a lot of rubbish about her mental state. You can
either
view it online or download it to a word file.
A feminist
interpretation of
Diana's death is the subject of Sarah Coleman's essay, Princess
Diana's Death: a Feminist Response, which was published by the
online Journal of Feminist Construction.
"She
Became an Icon: the Life and Death of Princess
Diana in Millenial Discourse"
is a scholarly examination of Diana's place in the
various religious
movements at the end of the 20th century.
This work was cited
several times in Ted Harrison's new book, Diana:
Myth and Reality.
<>
In Princess
Di: the Hunted Huntress, Beauty
Worlds discusses the appeal of
her beauty to the media and the public. You have to scroll down the
page
past the advertising to get to it.
>
The Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel
is still carrying "A
Year Later, Diana the Focus of Spiritual Yearning", a story which
treats
the topic with respect and dignity. Too often stories examining her
affect
on spirituality have ridiculed or dismissed it.
Shortly before
his eighteenth
birthday, it was announced that William would use part of the Spencer
crest
in his own crest. If you want to know more about the Spencer heraldry,
the Baronage site has an excellent article titled Styles,
Titles and Heraldry of Diana Princess of Wales that discusses it
thoroughly.
At the bottom of the page there are also links to a story on Diana's
badges
and the alleged links between the Spencers and the Despencers.
A fascinating footnote is "Princess
Di's Armenian Ancestry",
which traces her descent from an Armenian
woman on her mother's side of the family.
During the summer
semester of
2002, Humboldt University in Germany offered a course on the British
monarchy
titled, "A
Coronation, Four Weddings, and a Funeral." The Table of
Contents
is followed by an introduction by the professor who taught the course,
and among the papers written by his students on this topic that you can
read are: "The Importance of Being Married" (about the wedding
of
Charles and Diana), "The Separation of Charles and Diana and the
Yellow
Press", "The Presentation of Diana in her Only
Interview
and in Documentaries", "The Memorial Service for Lady
Diana",
and "The Funeral Service".
A truly
extraordinary offering
from the National Center for Australian Studies is a group of
twenty-two
articles under the heading
Australia
and the Monarchy. Some of the essays include: "Laughing at the
Royals",
"Royalty and the Community", "Royal Visit 1954", "Celebrating Q-Day:
Street
Decorations for the Royal Visit", "Prince Philip and the Australian
Male",
and "The Knitting of a Princess in New Idea".
Another site from
Oz shares the
memories of members of the Little River Band when they played at the
Royal
Gala in Membourne, Australia, on April 14, 1983, and met Charles
and Diana afterwards.
Jewelry
<>If you must have a tiara, Tiara
Town has excellent replicas of both the Spencer and the Queen Mary
tiaras, and are among the most reasonably priced out there at $69 and
$109
apiece. (Other sites sell the same items at considerably more.) The
most
authentic looking copy of the Queen Mary tiara with the love knots and
pearls is at Bridal
Headpieces by Laura, but you'll pay dearly for it, since it sells
for
$385. (However, it is hand-crafted, and does look much more regal than
the Cambridge Love Knot tiara at Tiara
Town.)
Diana Ring sells faux
copies of her pearl and sapphire choker, sapphire
earrings, a sapphire pendant, and her sapphire and diamond engagement
ring.
All the jewelry is set in sterling silver, and the ring can be ordered
in a minature version for smaller hands. Clip earrings are available
for $5.00 extra. The site has large, closeup photos of the jewelry so
you can see exactly what you're getting. She is also selling the
talking Diana doll for $64.95.
Shop Bag End has the St.
Justin pewter Queen of Hearts necklace at a clearance price of
$18.00. They also have the brooch on the site for $24.00, though the
illustration they show with it is the pendant. There are very few
places which still have these items in stock.
A
miniature of the Spencer tiara for 9.50 pounds is just one of many
miniature reproductions of royal crowns and coronation regalia, as well
as full-sized replicas of royal jewelry at Crown Miniatures.
Merchandise
includes items from all over Europe and some examples include:
Empress Josephine's tiara, the
jewelled sword worn by George IV at his coronation, the Coronation
regalia,
and many other items.
The
Royal Tiara Heart Ring was
once known as the Princess Diana Heart Ring, but the name may have been
changed in order not to have legal problems with the Memorial Fund. It
is a sterling silver band inspired by the Spencer tiara, set with a
heart-shaped
blue topaz ("the color of her
eyes") flanked by two cubic
zirconia
and offered by the Concorde Collection for only $37.50
plus $4.95 shipping. It's actually quite
pretty, to judge by the photo. They also offer a matching necklace and
earrings for $37.50 each, a necklace that looks more like a
pendant
for $45.00, as well as the Royal Tiara Keepsake Pearl Necklace for
$49.50.
This item is somewhat reminiscent of the pearl choker that Diana
borrowed
from her sister Sarah in order to wear with her going-away outfit on
her
wedding day.
Mandy's
British Royalty: The Queen's Jewels has an assortment of of gorgeous
photos of some of the more eye-popping rocks in the royal collection,
including
the Cambridge knot tiara and the emerald art deco necklace that Diana
wore
as a headband in Australia.
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