Princess Diana Exhibit on Display at Downtown Disney The Examiners
If you are a fan of The People's Princess, you will love seeing the latest Downtown Disney exhibit which will be opening in July 2009. The exhibit will be on display for a limited time - only until November 30, 2009. The exhibit will include Diana's royal dresses that were actually worn by the princess and will also include rare artifacts.
The event, which is presented by The People's Princess Charitable Foundation, displays one of the largest collections of dresses and artifacts that have been assembled for Americans.
The display will be held in the former Virgin Megastore in the Downtown Disney Marketplace. The hours are 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. Tickets to the exhibit are $14.50 for ages 10 and up and $5 for ages 3-9.
The Downtown Disney Marketplace is located at 1780 Buena Vista Drive in Lake Buena Vista, Fl. The telephone number is (407) 828-3800.
This film was made about Diana Princess of Wale...
This film was made about Diana Princess of Wales visit to Angola for land mine awareness. In her own words, without knowing her this is a pretty decent look at Diana a few months before her death. You really see what a great person she was here. I will not permit derogatory comments, so don't leave any.
Diana Princess of Wales
Story by Theresa Forkins-Phillips
Sept 2008
It has been 11 years sense we heard the news of the Late Princess death. ( 31 Aug 1997)
It shocked us as if we were in the same moment when President John Kennedy was shot!
Her death shook many ..millions watched her funeral and no other time in History was there such an out pouring for attention..
Yes there are those time when you will remember a person for many different reasons.
Why has this woman so intrigued the world even after her death?
As Editor of this publication I have to tell you the Royal section and this page in particular gets a lot of attention. DAILY ..
We saw a "SHY DI" grow into a raving beauty before our eyes .
We saw a frail woman admit her loses and her grief's on public TV.
we saw a mother adore her children and we saw a Princess look like a .... Princess....
We also saw a human side to Royalty that The USA may never understand..Because we have no Royal House..
What is so amazing is that I took the time over the last 11 years to watch the women of the world.
I watched them dress ...like her ... then.....like slobs... Cut their hair just after her passing to look like her.
Then did not take care of it.
One thing I noticed was this .. it faded ... NOT Diana but the vision she carried has faded.... in her posture and grace..Her look ...
It take's time to be a Princess it takes manners and respect and knowing how to be a Princess..
Diana did that in our eyes.. with her DI EYES...She grew into being a princess . She was born of Noble decent she had the goods.
We in America will never know what that takes for we do not have a Monarchy.. ( except in the "church" but that's another article )
why remember her at all?
Well it is like this.. She Looked the part and she did something no other Royal ever did ..She became public..extremely public .She showed many of us women it is possible to create another page in our books of life after divorce..
At that time in our history a divorced woman ( regardless of circumstances ) was to stay hid, at best and go way.. Diana did not! Thank you Diana.
Diana Princess of Wales allowed us to see into her heart and we all fell for it .
But what we did not know was that this fore-runner would also give us the courage to keep going and survive the changes in life..
Her legacy for dressing, laughing, enduring, and giving will live on ..and needs to be looked at often for her style is timeless and will always be available.
Diana will be looked at for years to come as an icon of beauty and style yes ..
BUT she can also be remembered as a woman who let her tragic changes make her a person not bitter but better .
Till the end we watched her ... some still are looking for the Next Diana
"I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
"I've taken the children to all sorts of areas where I'm not sure anyone of that age in this family has been before. . . . And they have a knowledge -- they may never use it, but the seed is there -- and I hope it will grow, because knowledge is power: I want them to have an understanding of people's emotions, people's insecurities, people's distress, and people's hopes and dreams."
"I've had difficulties . . . but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
The British Red Cross Anti-Personnel Land Mines Campaign No. 9, Grosvenor Crescent London SW1X 7EJ United Kingdom (Ceased to be an official patron in 1996)
Centrepoint Soho Bewlay House 2 Swallow Place London W1R 7AA United Kingdom
English National Ballet Markova House 39 Jay Mews London SW7 2EF United Kingdom
The Leprosy Mission Goldhay Way Orton Goldhay Peterborough PE2 5GZ United Kingdom
National AIDS Trust Princess Diana Fund New City Cloisters 188-196 Old Street London EC1V 9FR United Kingdom
Royal Marsden NHS Trust Fulham Road London SW3 6JJ United Kingdom
Great Ormond St Hospital for Children NHS Trust Great Ormond Street London WC1N 3JH United Kingdom
United States
American Red Cross Seventeenth and D Streets, NW Washington, DC 20006
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The wedding dress with a 25 foot train Pics from Althorp
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund releases Strategic Plan 2007-2012
Date: 28 February 2007 London
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund released its new Strategic Plan 2007-2012 on Wednesday 28 February 2006.
The Plan sets out the Fund's corporate strategy for the next five years, detailing our strategic goals, how we propose to achieve them and how we will measure success. It emerges from a process that took place over 2005-2006 that included strategic planning, consultation, and dialogue with the voluntary sector.
The Fund will spend out its existing capital over a period of between five and nine years from early 2007. In order to achieve its aims in this limited time span it has needed to change the way it works. So it is moving from being a criteria-led grant maker to being a pro-active and objective-driven one. It will focus on three initiatives, each of which has a desired outcome and a set of strategic objectives to be achieved over five years.
Under the Palliative Care Initiative, the Fund is committed to spending up to £10 million to promote the scale-up of palliative care in Africa. The desired outcome is that palliative care is accepted as an essential part of, and integrated into, the care and treatment of people with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-limiting illnesses.
Under the Refugee and Asylum Seekers Initiative, the Fund is committed to spending up to £10 million to raise awareness and highlight the needs and issues of young refugees and asylum seekers. The desired outcome is that the rights of young refugees and asylum seekers in the UK are upheld.
Under The Partnership Initiative, the Fund is committed to spending up to £5 million to build on previous investments in selected programme areas, to ensure that they are leveraged to their fullest potential. The desired outcome is that systemic change takes place in the UK in penal affairs, mental health and other areas, towards better outcomes for young people, and internationally in the area of landmines and explosive remnants of war.
For the next five years the Fund will engage primarily in pro-active grant-making. Grants will be provided on an invitation-to-bid basis or through negotiated partnerships with selected organisations. The Fund has identified this as the optimal means of attaining our strategic objectives. Therefore, apart from a restricted amount of funding to be made available through an open grants process under the Refugee and Asylum Seekers Initiative, as of early 2007 no other demand-driven open grants rounds are envisaged.
The Strategic Plan 2007-2012 can be downloaded here.
Note to Editors
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund is an independent grant-giving charity established in September 1997 to continue the Princess's humanitarian work in the United Kingdom and overseas. Its vision is a world in which the rights of the disadvantaged are respected.
For further information, please contact:
Trudy Stone, Communications Officer The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund Email: trudy.stone@memfund.org.uk Telephone: 020 7902 5506