Miscellaneous
Posters, Prints, and Photographs

Miscellaneous
The finest item in this category is produced by the Locharron Company, which got the approval of the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund to manufacture the Diana Memorial Tartan. It's a variation on the Royal Stewart pattern (appropriate when you remember her descent from the mistresses of the Stuart Kings) in a lovely blue-green color and is available as a scarf, shawl, or two sizes of lap rugs. Their items are fairly expensive; if you can't afford to spend quite quite this much, The Scottish Lion catalog also offers a lambs wool scarf for $50. Their other items in the Diana Memorial Tartan pattern are comparably priced to Locharron, but unique items they do offer is a lambs' wool serape for $200, a cashmere serape for $740, a lambs' wool lap rug for $180,  a cahsmere lap rug for $730, a mini-kilt for $220, a knee-length kilted skirt for $250, a silk square for $150, and a handbag for $170. To find these items, click Search and type Diana in the box.

Only one style of Princess Diana handbag is still available. It has one picture of her on a black background, and you can get it most reasonably at Katy's Collectibles for  $17.99.

Another personal accessory is Isis fragrance, a perfume created for Princess Diana; although their web site is no longer in business, it is still obtainable from the Pink Ribbons Crusade Gift Shop.

Princess Diana Magnetic Page offers a nice selection of 10 beautiful magnets for $7.50 each, and links at the bottom of the page take you to additional merchandise in the form of mouse pads, bookmarks, bumper stickers, and address labels, all produced by Charlotteswww

If you have a green thumb, you can plant roses in honor of Diana. The Princess of Wales rosebush is a white rose which was developed before her death. It is available to UK and EEC buyers at Harkness, which also has a page of European distributors. A second rosebush  is the pink Diana, Princess of Wales rose which was officially approved by the Memorial Fund and was developed by Jackson and Perkins. To find it, type Diana in the search box, and you'll notice they not only offer the Hybrid Tea Rose with Garden Marker for $49.95 (Item No. 37985B), but they also offer a 36" landscape tree rose of it! As for the England's
Rose, which was authorized by the Memorial Fund, I have no idea if it is still available. I did find the web site of the breeder who developed it, David Austin Roses, which sells in the UK, Canada, and Europe, but did not find it listed anywhere. Since I don't do well with plants myself, I was reluctant to write and ask about availability, since I would be unlikely to buy it, but if anyone who does well with plants and really wants to get this rose contacts them, let me know. It would be nice to know if it was available somewhere.

Another flower that was introduced in 2003 is the Princess Di Canna Lilly, a lovely peach-colored flower that would be most attractive in any garden. I was able to find a Canadian flower vendor who has it. Click on All Cannas on the left hand side of the page, then the link on the main page which says Alphabetical Listing, then N thru Q, then scroll down to Princess Di and click on it.

For $699, you can get married in the Princess Diana Wedding Chapel (!) in Las Vegas. The package includes the chapel fee, flowers for the bride and groom and eight attendants, photos, a videotape, and a bridal garter. I have a feeling the Memorial Fund doesn't know about this place, or they probably would have forced them to change the name.

If you are expecting a daughter or granddaughter, then the Princess Diana Bassinet, a custom-made item made by Leipold  Bassinets and available in Natural wood only, might be just the alternative to a crib for your little princess. I havc to admit it is alluring, and you get the mattress and eyelet bedding as part of the $550.00 price tag. Shipping is determined by UPS rates to your zip code.

Diana was born at Park House, Sandringham and lived there when she wasn't at boarding school till 1975, when her grandfather died and the family moved to Althorp. The house is now run as a holiday hotel for disabled persons and their caretakers by the Leonard Cheshire foundation. (I have no idea if it is restricted to UK citizens only.) The foundation has now put up an elaborate web site for Park House, which gives extensive details about the hotel, including a gallery of photos, menus, activities, fees, and everything anyone would wish to know about booking a stay there. And for those of us who  to stay there, you will be delighted to know that the hotel restaurant is open to the public for lunch! It might be a possible stop if you've come to see the royal estate at Sandringham, since it is right on the grounds and it is possible to book a stay in a cottage at Sandrigham itself.
Another site in the area that may be of interest is The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, which is the church that the royal family attends when they are at Sandringham, and where Diana's grandparents, Maurice and Cynthia Fermoy, as well as her older brother John Spencer are buried. This is also the burial site of Prince John, the "lost prince" who was secreted away at a cottage on the Sandringham estate by his parents, King George V and Queen Mary, because he had epilepsy.

Both of the boarding schools that Diana attended have sites. Provided that you have the cash and your daughter measures up to their standards, she, too, can be an alumnae of Riddlesworth Hall. (They do take international students from non-English speaking countries, who begin their studies at the Diana, Princess of Wales International Studies Center, which was opened by her in 1989.) Diana's other school, West Heath, went into receivership the day after her death, but it since has been re-opened as a school for childen with special needs as a living memorial to Diana and Dodi, courtesy of his father Mohammed Al-Fayed. Both schools mention on their pages that Diana was a pupil, though West Heath has actually put up a page with quotes from Andrew Morton's book about her school days there. 


Posters, Prints, and Photographs
The Diana Photomosaic is available as a poster for $15, with proceeds going to benefit land mine victims in Cambodia.

Under the "Our Leaders" section, World Wide Posters has a head and shoulders poster of Princess Diana in the Chanel suit for
a clearance price of $3.99 each. 

Ice  Poster.com has five stunning photos of  Diana,  three  black and white and two  color,  that you  can order either as photos, posters, or mouse pads. The mouse pads are $9.95, but the prices of the posters and photos vary according to size and finish.

Image Exchange has the Andy Warhol poster for $27.50. (This is one of two places that still has it in stock; the other one is selling it for 145 pounds!)

Clicket sells life-size cardboard stand-up figures of many cartoon characters and real persons, including Princess Diana, for $26.99. As usual, type Princess Diana in the search box to find it.

One of the least known items authorized by the Memorial Fund is a lithograph of a photograph which was taken by
Andrea Jones on September 9, 1997 showing the flowers in front of Kensington Palace, and 60% of the proceeds are evenly divided between the Memorial Fund and the Leprosy Mission. It is still available for 15 pounds plus shipping and she will ship overseas.

Lithographs of Dr. John Woods' watercolor paintings of Althorp Gates, Diana's Island, Diana's Memorial, Great Brington Church, and Kensington Palace, along with lithographs of Sandringham, Balmoral Castle, Windsor Castle, and Britannia can once again be purchased through his website via Paypal. Prices range from 22.50 to 27.50 pounds each. plus shipping, and he does ship overseas. He will also personalize a picture with an inscription at your request.

The Peter Max site still has posters of Diana, one of her standing full figure in a blue dress and hat she wore in Italy in 1985 and the other is a portrait shot in a white dress and tiara. You can get them signed and dedicated to the name you specify for $ 185, and signed and dedicated with a small drawing for $ 960. To find them, click on shop, then type Princess Diana in the search box.

It is possible to buy prints of photographs and paintings of Princess Diana (as well as many other persons) from the National Portrait Gallery. To find the listing of forty-two portraits and photos available as prints, type Princess Diana in the search box. You will notice that images of six of the pictures are not shown on the page of search results, probably to prevent unlicensed copies of the images from showing up on web pages. (Their copyright policy makes it very clear that they will not tolerate unauthorized use of images from their site.) If you do want to make arrangements to have copies or licensed images of the pictures, some of which were taken by photographer Terence Donovan and were donated to the collection by his widow, you can contact them at the address listed on that page. And if you happen to visit their gift shop, they have a rarely seen 1988 black and white photo by David Bailey on posterboard for only five pounds, which has the added attraction of being authorized by the Memorial Fund.

You can buy copies of any one of fifteen photographs that were taken of Princess Diana during various official visits to Manchester at Manchester Online.

The Mirror gives access to one hundred years of news and archive photos which can be purchased or sent as e-cards. (To do the latter, you will have to register for a free account.) There's a search box: limiting the search in the box beneath it to the exact phrase and typing: Diana Princess of Wales yielded 550 photos, Diana Spencer found 33, and Princess Diana 881, and nearly every picture included her, or showed her dresses, or her funeral. Remember when using this site that it is a site for obtaining licensed photographs, so do not go copying and displaying these images on web pages without purchasing them, or you could have some legal problems with the publisher.

Another photo archives with thousands of photos of Princess Diana is Corbis, which is owned by Bill Gates. Despite its royalty-free search capacity, there are no royalty-free pictures on this site. You can, however, search and enjoy viewing a number of pictures you are unlikely to have seen before, and purchase if you find one you simply must have. (Don't even think of using them on a web site without paying for them, since they have the Corbis watermark prominently displayed on each picture.) It does help your search if you add additional keywords, so if you wanted pictures of her in a particular country or with a particular person,  or in a particular situation such as her wedding, it is a good idea to enter that term. You can register free in order to use the site.
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