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...Ireland has been obligingly explosive, of course -- and now that other old standby, the royal family, has offered up its requisite amount of gossip. Wednesday a spokeswoman for Prince Charles confirmed that Camilla Parker Bowles, the Prince's longtime mistress, has met Prince William for the first time. When Diana was alive, Camilla was kept very much in the shadows. Her sudden flurry of interest in Charles' son -- they reportedly got together three times over the last month -- has sparked rumors that Camilla is about to become a stepmother, not to mention future Queen Consort...
...visit Princess Diana's memorial at her family's Althorp estate, you'd never know Dodi Fayed existed. And that has his father, Mohammed Al Fayed, lashing out at out Diana's brother, Earl Spencer. "I am sure the people who visit Diana's grave will be amazed there isn't a mention of Dodi's name and there are so many of Prince Charles, who brought her so much unhappiness," said Al Fayed. "(Spencer) himself admitted in his speech on the day of her funeral that she had finally found happiness in her private life...
...There's no love lost between Al Fayed and Diana's brother. Earl Spencer was enraged by Al Fayed's claim that the Princess was about to marry Dodi and had spoken about him moments before her death. The relationship, he said, had not gotten beyond the "heady" stage. Britain's tabloids are debating whether her lovers deserve a mention in the family's memorial, and Mohammed Al Fayed's lifelong battle for acceptance into Britain's aristocracy goes...
...lake island where Princess Diana is buried and a new museum dedicated to her memory will both be opened to public view at her family home Wednesday, which would have been her 37th birthday. Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, has opened the grounds of Althorp, in rural Northamptonshire, through Aug. 30. The burial island will be off-limits to visitors, and the exact location of the grave is not marked. But visitors will be able to stand at the water's edge, look at the house, tour a museum (built in former stables) and view Diana's schoolgirl letters...
...tragic ironies of our celebrity age that our puffing-up of the famous in their lifetime is surpassed only by media frenzy that follows their death. While those celebrities who die young--Diana, JFK, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Kurt Cobain--remain forever young and full of promise in the public imagination, tragically, they have already left the stage when the applause for them is loudest and the spotlight brightest...