Word: dianas
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...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 and far beyond. Her likeness is etched onto stacks of commemorative coins - the Royal Mint is releasing a set costing between $80 for the smallest one and $480 for the largest - and inked onto reams of stamps (over 100 governments will be issuing...
...value of Diana?s memory is not just that it persuades people to spend - but also that it motivates them to give. A glamorous princess holding the hand of a dying stranger, comforting a sick child - those were the moments that made Diana an international symbol of caring. For charities that work in her name, that's the kind of publicity money can?t buy. The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund was set up in 1997 with the donations that came flooding in after her death. Since then it has handed out $150 million in grants to more than...
...dismiss what an association with the dead princess can do for those who want to do good. Andrew Morton is best known as the author of Diana: Her True Story, the 1992 biography that revealed - with Diana?s covert blessing - how unhappy she was in her marriage. But he also chairs Response International, which helps war victims in countries like Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon. In 2002, the charity received a grant from the Memorial Fund to support land-mine clearance in Pakistan. "Some of the charity workers have to go where literacy rates are low and suspicion of strangers...
...Diana Industry...
...Princess Diana had a pretty good idea of her own value. "You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well," she said in a confessional BBC TV interview in 1995. "And people make a lot of money out of you." Indeed. Tina Brown's new biography fetched a large advance. Pilgrims flock to $25 tours of Diana's family home and grave site. More than 100 governments will be issuing Diana stamps this year. More commemorative commerce...