Category: Princess Diana

Princess Diana’s butler says he’s gay

PRINCESS Diana’s “rock” Paul Burrell comes out as gay – and reveals he is about to marry his long-term partner. A source said: “Paul’s friends and family all know but for a long time he kept it a closely guarded secret.

Princess Diana documentary to mark 20th anniversary of her death

A four-hour documentary about Princess Diana will air in America on the 20th anniversary of the royal’s death. The film, a two-part TV event collaboration between network executives at ABC and People magazine bosses, will feature interviews with Diana experts, friends and footage of the Princess, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

ABC and People teaming up for documentary on Princess Diana

A joint project of ABC and People magazine, the program, to be telecast over two nights, will include what the producers say will be in-depth conversations with those who knew her best as well as archival footage of the Princess of Wales. The program will “remind the world why they fell in love with Diana in the first place,” according to Monday’s announcement.

More than 2,500 coins from 500 regions at Intl Coin Fair10 min ago

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 11: More than 2,500 coins from around 500 regions, including those from the times of empires and princely states, will be on display at the three day international Coin fair which will get underway here from February 13. The exhibition will also feature collections of Justin Gilbert Lopez, who holds a Guinness world record for the largest coin collection, a press release said. Lopez, who hails from Poovar, has a collection of coins from 310 countries, even those whose claims of statehood are currently under dispute.

Dirty Diary: This week I torment Tinky-Winky, probe Douglas Carswell…

CONSTRUCTION workers at the O2 Arena in London were in the news last week. Not because they scythed through someone’s broadband cable, mistakenly cut off the gas to thousands of homes and hoovered up all the fudge doughnuts and steak bakes in Greggs – they didn’t, so far as I know – but because they unearthed and then smashed to smithereens the Blue Peter Millennium Time Capsule .

Princess Diana statue to mark 20 years since car crash death

The sons of the late Princess Diana plan to build a statue to mark the 20th anniversary of her death in a Paris car crash in 1997. Princes William and Harry have commissioned the statue, which will be paid for with private funds and erected in the public gardens of Diana’s former London home, Kensington Palace.

Remembering 1997: 24 pictures show the way we were in the North East 20 years ago

Can it really be 20 years since Cool Britannia, the film Titanic, and Newcastle United’s Tino Asprilla hit the headlines? We head back top 1997, a time when the average price of a house in the UK was around 68,000, a gallon of petrol was 2.70, and a pint of lager would knock you back 1.83. In the pop charts it was the era of Oasis and The Spice Girls , while at the cinema The Full Monty and Jurassic Park were pulling in the punters.