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The above crest from Diana's notepaper was originally offered as wallpaper for visitors to the now-defunct Royal Network site. Thought you might enjoy it.

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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