Word: althorp
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...While newspapers and magazines cater to the casual princess watcher, some pilgrims want more solid mementos. Every summer they descend on Althorp, the historical home of Diana?s family, where for $25 they can walk through the rooms she played in as a child, check out the small museum that exhibits her favorite dresses and personal letters, gaze upon her grave that sits on an island in the middle of a lake - and pick up souvenirs, like a heart-shaped key ring ($12) or a bone china pillbox ($30). Diana merchandise still sells in main streets and malls in Britain...
...central London who lined the route of her funeral procession; by the 2,000 mourners inside Westminster Abbey who had been invited to attend her funeral service. Tens of thousands more gathered along roadsides to say farewell as she was driven roughly 70 miles northwest of London to Althorp, her family's ancestral home. And across the earth's 24 time zones, hundreds of millions interrupted their waking or sleeping schedules to gather around television sets...
...Viscount Althorp, brother of the Princess of Wales, says, "She's got a big, fat bottom." Her grandmother put on earplugs when she sang. Hardly the way to treat a lady. Unless she happens to be Lady (Helen) Teresa Margaret Manners, 23, daughter of Charles John Robert Manners, the tenth Duke of Rutland, and lead singer of the British aristo-rock band, the Business Connection. Despite the group's white-collar name, Lady Teresa's connections are strictly blue blood. Her father owns Belvoir Castle, one of Britain's most imposing homes; her 15-piece band includes the Marquess...
Lady Sarah Spencer, Diana's sister, would later say she was "playing cupid" when she invited the Prince of Wales to her family's Althorp estate for a shooting weekend in November 1977. Sarah was probably joking, since she had had designs on Charles herself. Her sister hardly looked like competition, standing shyly by in a checked shirt and an anorak. Nor was the future princess greatly impressed herself: "What a sad man," she thought of Charles. Her opinion soon changed, and as her father would recall of the weekend, "Somehow she automatically ended up standing at the side...