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...Diana, Princess of Wales, was a commodity - and she had a pretty shrewd idea of her own value. "You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well," she said in a famous confessional BBC TV interview in 1995. "And people make a lot of money...
...mania surrounding Princess Diana has calmed since she died. The industry that was built from it, though, is still going strong - a steady heartbeat of Dianabilia that keeps the princess's memory alive as long as people keep reaching into their pockets. The queen of cultural icons, Diana is one of a handful of superstars who can still shift the merchandise long after they're gone. Like Elvis, Diana has a loyal army of fans for whom every commemorative coin, plate and velvet portrait is a must-have. Like Marilyn Monroe (another tragic blond who died young and beautiful), 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 the angel, Diana the manipulator, Diana the maker of Kings, Diana the destroyer of the monarchy: all will soon be jostling for attention at a major bookstore near...
...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 whose new start in life was tragically cut short. Brown stitched together two years of research with her own experiences of Diana, whom she met several times in the 1980s. "I ended up really liking Diana...
...hurt by it but her boys can. Above all else, Diana was a mother.' ROSA MONCKTON, a friend of Princess Diana, saying images of the princess's crash featured in a forthcoming Channel 4 documentary in the U.K. are insensitive and designed to boost TV ratings...