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...Lady Sarah admits that following Diana's death, she and her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, shredded "sensitive" documents that might be "distressing" to Princes Harry and William, including thank-you notes and pamphlets from "soothsayers." But she maintains that no "historical" documents, such as correspondence with Prince Philip, were ever shredded: "My conscience is clear on what I destroyed." Still, prying open the wooden chest - and potentially unleashing those letters onto the world - may have been akin to opening Pandora's box. For a mythic figure like Diana, it's a fitting comparison...
...about relationships: his and Diana's, Diana's and Prince Philip's, Diana's with Dodi's versus that with her ex-boyfriend, heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan. But it was near the end of the day that focus turned to the friction between Diana and her mother, Frances Shand Kydd...
Died. Frances Shand Kydd, 68, who had an often turbulent relationship with her daughter Princess Diana; after a long illness; on Seil Island, Scotland. Herself the daughter of a baron and the Queen's lady-in-waiting, she had three girls and a boy during a 15-year marriage to Edward John Spencer. When the couple divorced in 1969, the future princess, then 8, stayed with her father, and later described her childhood as "very unhappy and unstable...
...DIED. FRANCES SHAND KYDD, 68, estranged mother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales; on the Isle of Seil, Scotland. The daughter of a baron and the Queen's lady-in-waiting, Shand Kydd had three girls and one boy during a 15-year marriage to Edward John Spencer. When the couple divorced in 1969, the future princess, then eight, remained with her father...
...that even if self-replication were possible it's likely to be on a scale that's pretty harmless. A more realistic fear, at least for many who actually work in the field, is that unfounded panic could hold back important research. That's not good enough for Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group, a Canada-based social-advocacy organization that wants a global moratorium on nanotech research until health, safety and environmental tests are carried out. It was ETC Group's research into the dangers of nanotech that stirred Prince Charles to intervene. "If there have been industry...