Elton John and David Beckham are among the 1,900 guests expected to attend the royal wedding Friday, according to an official guest list released Saturday.
John, 64, performed a special version of "Candle in the Wind" at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997. Beckham, 35, who recently worked with...
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In anticipation of Friday's royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, TLC will air Charles and Di: Once Upon a Time (Sunday, April 24, 7/6c), which is essentially a Pop-Up Video-style rebroadcast of the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. In this exclusive clip of the special, relive that special time in pop culture history when Lady Di said her husband's name wrong on the altar...
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After years of worldwide speculation, are Prince William and longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton ready to wed?
The couple, both 28, will get married next year, according to US Weekly. Sources tell the magazine they do not plan to...
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The inquest into the August 31, 1997, death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on Monday delivered a verdict of "unlawful killing" by way of the negligent driving of her car and the paparazzi vehicles that were in chase. Having deliberated since April 2, ultimately nine of the 11 jurors tendered the decision. (The coroner lord justice had said that a unanimous decision was not needed in this case.) According to CNN, the jury first was charged with deciding whether the French police were correct in deeming Diana's driver, Henri Paul, drunk at the time in question. The panel then was asked to ascertain whether the paparazzi in pursuit of Di's car bore a heavy responsibility for the crash and resulting deaths. In giving the jury their orders, the lord justice said there was "no evidence" that the British Secret Service nor any government agency played any role in the crash (as has at times been conspira-theorized).The proceedings began Oct. 2, 2007, delivered 240 witnesses and cost British ...
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I would have added "worst TV-movie ever" to the above teaser, but I've been around long enough to remember that sick moment of time when all three major networks made colliding Amy Fisher TV-movies.TV is currently steeped in Princess Diana memorabilia again, with news and entertainment specials pegged to the 10-year anniversary of her shocking death on Aug. 31 in 2007. Some aim high, some aim low, and I’m not going to pretend to be engaged in most of this posthumous star-gazing. But you’d think Lifetime, with its female-friendly skew, would go the respectful route.Instead, the channel has commissioned one of the most depressingly irresponsible and numbingly dull TV-movies since the genre was invented. Even worse, Lifetime is shoving it down its viewers’ throats. The icky and silly The Death of Princess Diana premieres Saturday night, when it’s easy to ignore, but will be repeated Sunday in advance of its prime-time lineup (including the first-season finale of the...
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