Word: dianas
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...Elvis and Marilyn were entertainers. Their legacies are stored in back catalogs, albums and movies that fans can dip into again and again. Diana was different. People knew her as a royal, a mother, a humanitarian and - many thought - a saint. You can pay your respects to the King for the price of a ticket to Graceland. But to honor Diana might mean trying to change the world by supporting the causes she championed when she was alive. Any icon can be used to make people part with their money for something commemorative, but Diana can make them give...
...With the 10th anniversary of Diana's death on Aug. 31, a host of companies are hoping to separate consumers from their cash. This year sees the publication in the U.S. and Britain of at least 15 Diana-related books. The biography Diana: The Portrait, by Rosalind Coward, has an official nod of approval from Diana's estate. Christopher Andersen's After Diana looks at the royal family since her death. And A Dress for Diana is a $2,000 limited-edition coffee-table book about the princess's wedding dress containing a swatch from the leftover silk. Diana...
...Peter Saxton, biography buyer at British bookseller Waterstone's, thinks there's a limit to the Diana publishing phenomenon. "I can?t see that there?s enough of a market for all 15 books to do spectacularly well," he says. Saxton does, however, think one book could break away from the pack - The Diana Chronicles, by Tina Brown, published in both the U.S. and the U.K. this month. Brown, the former editor of the Tatler, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, follows the princess as she goes from shy newlywed to "trapped bird in a cage" to a confident woman...
...Royal watchers in the media certainly do - so much so, indeed, that a lot of coverage of the British royals still turns on the dead princess. "Most of the royal stories we do refer back to Diana in some way," says Simon Perry, London bureau chief for PEOPLE magazine (a sister publication of TIME). "Now when we look at Diana, it's through the eyes of the people she left behind, and that's the Princes, William and Harry." Iconic pictures of her are still worth a tidy sum for those photographers lucky enough to have taken them, whether they?...
...least some in the Diana industry think it will get a boost this year from more than the anniversary of the car crash in a Paris tunnel. After years of delays, the inquest into her death is starting up in London - and the press finally will have something new to say. "The real interest now is the story of the conspiracy," says Peter Hill, editor of London newspaper the Daily Express. "There's an enormous number of people who simply do not believe that [Diana's death] was just an accident." For whatever reason - nostalgia, loyalty, morbid curiosity - readers...