Liz Smith | 04/15/2008 5:04 pm
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Who Still Cares? Millions Around the World Did. Some Still Do
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The last time I posted something about Princess Diana, I got a lot of razzing and people bothering to care enough to write in, asking: “Who cares?”
But I was interested in the following from my good friend Dominick Dunne’s column in May’s Vanity Fair magazine.
He describes a phenomenal memorial erected in Harrods by Mohamed Al Fayed to the memory of his son, Dodi, and the late princess. Dominick, who covered the recent expensive London inquest into Diana’s death, which ended, of course, without our finding out anything new that we hadn’t known back in 1997, has this to say:
“Like the conspiracy theory surrounding their deaths, their romance, too, was orchestrated by Mohamed Al Fayed. The shrine to the eternal love of Dodi and Diana in Harrods, the most famous of English department stores, owned by Al Fayed, is a popular tourist attraction. People line up to look at it. They speak in whispers, as if they were in church, instead of next to the Egyptian escalator in the basement of the store. The shrine, which is tacky but curiously touching, consists of a fountain, two large portraits – one of Dodi and one of Diana – and floor-lamp-size candles, the scent of lilies in the air. Under a glass pyramid is a crystal glass from which one of them had drunk champagne in the Imperial Suite of the Ritz Hotel (in Paris) just before they died, and the so-called engagement ring, which Dodi had bought that afternoon at the jewelry shop down the street from the Ritz. Diana never wore it.”
Well, I’m betting very few of us are going to go all the way to London to see this memorial, not with the English pound punishing the dollar the way it is doing these days (and the English pound is now being punished by the Euro). London is now the most expensive and, some say, desperate city in the world.
So in the interest of covering all bases, I decided to bring the memorial to you, courtesy of wowOwow. I’d love to know what you think about it?

My personal "P.S." is, if you ever find yourself in Harrods department store, to pay very close attention to the Egyptian décor of the escalator. That is worth going there to see. And don’t miss going to the Harrods toy department.
Note: Don’t forget to read my nationally syndicated column!!
But I was interested in the following from my good friend Dominick Dunne’s column in May’s Vanity Fair magazine.
He describes a phenomenal memorial erected in Harrods by Mohamed Al Fayed to the memory of his son, Dodi, and the late princess. Dominick, who covered the recent expensive London inquest into Diana’s death, which ended, of course, without our finding out anything new that we hadn’t known back in 1997, has this to say:
“Like the conspiracy theory surrounding their deaths, their romance, too, was orchestrated by Mohamed Al Fayed. The shrine to the eternal love of Dodi and Diana in Harrods, the most famous of English department stores, owned by Al Fayed, is a popular tourist attraction. People line up to look at it. They speak in whispers, as if they were in church, instead of next to the Egyptian escalator in the basement of the store. The shrine, which is tacky but curiously touching, consists of a fountain, two large portraits – one of Dodi and one of Diana – and floor-lamp-size candles, the scent of lilies in the air. Under a glass pyramid is a crystal glass from which one of them had drunk champagne in the Imperial Suite of the Ritz Hotel (in Paris) just before they died, and the so-called engagement ring, which Dodi had bought that afternoon at the jewelry shop down the street from the Ritz. Diana never wore it.”
Well, I’m betting very few of us are going to go all the way to London to see this memorial, not with the English pound punishing the dollar the way it is doing these days (and the English pound is now being punished by the Euro). London is now the most expensive and, some say, desperate city in the world.
So in the interest of covering all bases, I decided to bring the memorial to you, courtesy of wowOwow. I’d love to know what you think about it?

My personal "P.S." is, if you ever find yourself in Harrods department store, to pay very close attention to the Egyptian décor of the escalator. That is worth going there to see. And don’t miss going to the Harrods toy department.
Note: Don’t forget to read my nationally syndicated column!!
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