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Prince Harry refuses to buy music CDs. It is because he thinks they are a waste of money.

The 22-year-old prince prefers to listen to his favorite artists on the radio as he doesn’t want to spend cash on their albums.

He revealed, “I listen to the radio more than anything else. That way you don’t have to go and buy the records. It’s much easier to listen to the tunes on the radio.”

Prince Harry is speculated to be worth around $59.8 million. He will inherit more cash from Princess Diana when he turns 25.

According to recent report, Prince Harry’s life is expected to be a film. Film bosses are convinced cinemagoers would flock to watch Prince Harry’s story told on the film.

Britain’s Prince William is celebrating his 25th birthday on June 21. The prince spent his special day completing his Army training duties at his Dorset barracks in Lulworth.

At 25, William is now entitled to part of the inheritance left to him by his mother, the late Princess Diana. The prince will gain access to the interest accrued on the nearly $13 million left to him in Diana’s will, 10 years on from her tragic death in August 1997.

Prince Harry, 22, will also be entitled to an equal amount of funds in three years time.

Princess Diana left an estate of $41.6 million and, after $15.8 million was paid in inheritance tax, the remainder was split between her two young sons. After turning 30, Prince William and Prince Harry will be entitled to their shares in full.

Prince William, who earns $43, 681 as a Cornet in the Blues and Royals regiment, is also believed to now have access to funds left to him by his great-grandmother, the Queen Mother.

The prince also receives money from his father Prince Charles’ estate, the Duchy of Cornwall, which pays for his accommodation, staff and polo hobby.

John Travolta claims his famous dance with the late Princess Diana saved his career. The ‘Saturday Night Fever’ star admits his roles were few and far between until images of him and the princess swirling around a ballroom in 1985 were shown around the world.

The actor is quoted by Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper as saying: “That was an amazing moment because I was having a dip in my career and no-one was interested in me.”

The actor also revealed, “Suddenly I was the only thing that mattered in America to Princess Diana and I was reborn. I was like, ‘Wow! I matter to someone again.’ I was on the cover of every newspaper and magazine in the world and someone as significant as Princess Diana reminded everyone of me. It was a wonderfully special moment of her fulfilling a dream and giving me a new value.”
The dance took place at the White House after First Lady Nancy Reagan - the wife of then US President Ronald Reagan - took John aside and told him Diana wanted a dance.

He then plucked up the courage to ask her to dance as the guests at the glittering gala looked on. He said, “I looked her in the eye and said, ‘We’re good. I can do this.’ ”
Since his dance with Princess Diana, who was tragically killed in a Paris car crash in 1997, the 53-year-old actor’s career has soared.

Prince William and Prince Harry have revealed “not a day goes by” without them thinking about their late mother Princess Diana.

The royal brothers speak of their endless grief in a heartfelt interview for US TV, as they approach the 10th anniversary of their mother’s death.

Prince William revealed, “When you knew somebody or someone that important to you, you always think about… you know. I mean, so after it happened we were always, you know, always thinking about it. And there’s not a day goes by I don’t think, you know, that I don’t think about it once in the day.”

The interview, which aired on NBC on June 18, is a rare glimpse into the true feelings of the brothers, who were still schoolboys when Diana and her lover Dodi Al Fayed were killed in a Paris car crash in August 1997.

Speaking of the crash, Prince Harry revealed, “Whatever happened in that tunnel - no one will ever know. And I’m sure people will always think about that the whole time.”

When asked whether he still thinks about what really happened, Harry replies: “I’ll never stop wondering about that.”

Clarence House sources have claimed the brothers agreed to the interview because of their frustration over the countless conspiracy theories surrounding their mother’s death.

Paddy Haverson, the princes’ spokesman, told reporters: “It is only natural that Harry will always be thinking about what happened on that night. Of course he and William think a lot about it and whether the accident could have been avoided.”

An official inquiry into the princess’ death returned an “accidental” verdict. However, Dodi’s father, Mohamed Al Fayed, believes the deaths were the result of a plot engineered by the Establishment.

David Beckham, a Los Angeles-bound soccer star, will reportedly take to the stage at the DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES memorial concert in London this summer.

The former England captain has been invited to the concert as guests of Princes William and Harry, and it is believed the appearance will be his last in Britain before his summer move to join LA Galaxy in Los Angeles.

The sports star is expected to introduce Sir Elton John and Take That onstage, according to report in British newspaper The Sun. The concert will be staged at Wembley Stadium on 1 July to mark what would have been the Princess’ 47th birthday.

Kiefer Sutherland will be a guest at this summer’s memorial concert for Britain’s Princess Diana.

The star of ‘24′ is to make a speech at the Concert for Diana, which takes place at London’s Wembley Stadium on July 1.

The star-studded concert will be held on what would have been Diana’s 46th birthday and marks the 10th anniversary of her death.

Diana’s sons Princes William, 24, and 22-year-old Harry personally selected the impressive line-up for the musical extravaganza. Performers include Sir Elton John, Take That, Lily Allen, Kanye West and Will Young.

The concert will also feature Status Quo and Roy Hodgson from 70s band Supertramp, two of Diana’s favourite bands. The first 22,500 Concert for Diana tickets sold out in minutes of their release in December, and a further 10,000 tickets were snapped up just as fast when they went on sale in April.
The event will be broadcast all over the world. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, homelessness charity Centrepoint and Sentebale, which helps Aids orphans in Lesotho, Africa.

A new book, which is about late Princess Diana, claims she married Prince Charles for his title. The book also claimed that Princess Diana lied about throwing herself down the stairs when she was pregnant.

Her friend, the New Yorker editor Tina Brown, has written the book, which coincides with the tenth anniversary of the princess’ death in a Paris, France car crash in August 1997.

Among other claims, Tina Brown alleges Princess Diana and Prince Charles had sex on the royal train before they married and Prince Charles only cheated on the princess after her eating disorders and hysteria became too much to endure.

Other friends of the Princess have denied the claims in the book, which will be released on June 12 in the US and UK.

Princes William and Prince Harry are going to perform with Take That for this summer’s Concert for Diana. The princes are in talks with the reformed boyband to join them on stage for the memorial show at London’s Wembley Stadium on July 1.

Singer Howard Donald, 38, revealed, “We are inviting them on stage to join in our performance. We know their mom Princess Diana loved us so it will be cool for them to do it.”
The royal brothers, who will perform alongside Howard, Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and former bandmate Robbie Williams, are already said to be hard at work practicing their dance moves.

A source revealed, “The whole thing has been kept very hush-hush. But it will be tremendous thrill for the boys. They want to get it spot on as a fitting tribute to their mother. The demands of their Army careers mean they are both extremely fit. So in that respect they will have no problems coping with the high-energy dancing.”

A source added, “But they are also considering joining in with a chorus of one of Take That’s hits - and that is something they are really nervous about. Dancing is no problem - they both love hitting the floor in clubs. But singing is entirely unchartered territory for them. They just want the whole concert to go perfectly and make it something their mother would have been proud.”

The concert marks the 10th anniversary of the princess’ tragic death in August 31, 1997. Other acts confirmed for the tribute show include Lily Allen, Rod Stewart and Sir Elton John.

The paternity of Prince Harry has been called into question again, with the release of a new book about his tragic mother Princess Diana.

Christopher Anderson, the US author of ‘After Diana: William, Harry, Charles and the Royal House of Windsor’ released on June 6, claims Prince Harry’s father was not Diana’s husband Prince Charles, but her lover James Hewitt.

The author revealed that 22-year-old Harry’s similarities with James, who had an affair with Diana in the 80s, are too strong to ignore. He said: “It’s not just the physical resemblance - and I can pick out dozens of photos that show this - it’s the peculiar expressions, the walk, the mannerisms.”

The princess and James both denied rumors that he was Prince Harry’s father, insisting they did not meet until two years after Harry was born in 1984.

Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty magazine, has rubbished Anderson’s claims. She was quoted by USA Today as saying: “It’s such rubbish. It’s so obvious when you see Harry. He is the spitting image of his grandfather Prince Philip. His close-set eyes are a Windsor trait. His red hair, that’s very Spencer. It’s ridiculous.”

The book, which comes just weeks before the 10th anniversary of Diana’s death this summer, is Anderson’s third about the Princess.

Anderson also claims the young prince will eventually serve in Afghanistan, after Army bosses banned him from serving alongside his fellow soldiers in Iraq recently. The writer insists his book is an attempt to defend Diana’s honor.

He added the princess, who died in a Paris car crash with her lover Dodi Al Fayed in 1997, has been portrayed as “scheming and neurotic”. He said: “It’s about her legacy and the new generation. For all her faults, and she had plenty, she was a pretty gutsy young woman.”

Prince William and Prince Harry have branded the decision to broadcast crash scene images of their late mother Princess Diana as “wholly inappropriate and deeply distressing”.

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, a senior aide for the pair, has written to U.K. TV network Channel 4 to request graphic images of Diana’s final hours be scrapped from the show, due to air on the night of June 6. Among the pictures contested is one of Diana slumped in the back seat of the Mercedes moments after the fatal 1997 collision, and another showing a French doctor attempting to fit an oxygen mask to her face.

A statement from royal residence Clarence House revealed, “As of this morning (June 5), Clarence House had not received a reply from Channel 4. In publishing the letter, the Princes reluctantly feel that they have been left no choice but to make it clear publicly that they believe the broadcast of these photographs to be wholly inappropriate, deeply distressing to them and to the relatives of the others who died that night, and a gross disrespect to their mother’s memory.”

The letter, sent last Friday (01Jun07) by Lowther-Pinkerton, read, “If it were your or my mother dying in that tunnel, would we want the scene broadcast to the nation? Indeed, would the nation so want it?” Channel 4 insists it has weighed royal concerns against the legitimate public interest of the documentary and will not stand down.

Prince William and Prince Harry, the sons of the late Princess Diana, have been opening up about the loss of their mother and the pressures of royal life. The frank comments came during one of a series of interviews given to promote a concert being organized by Prince William and Prince Harry in honor of their late mother.

During the heart-to-heart talk with NBC’s Matt Lauer, Prince William and his younger brother also discussed their Army careers and the difficulties of conducting their lives under the public gaze. “They talked a lot about the pressures they’re facing… and the press and the exposure and their quest for normality,” revealed by the high-profile American presenter, who described the two princes as “nice, wonderful, warm, normal and quite open”.

The American presenter added, “They treat it like the Holy Grail. They don’t think they’ll ever be able to attain it.”

The interview is anticipated to show days before the concert at Wembley Stadium on July 1.

A spokesman for the royal revealed that the Prince of Wales would not attend the concert marking 10 years since the death of his former wife, Princess Diana.

The concert on July 1 at London’s new Wembley Stadium will mark performances by Elton John, Status Quo, Rod Stewart, U.S. rapper Kanye West, James Morrison, Natasha Bedingfield and Lily Allen.

The spokesman of Prince Charles revealed, “The concert is really for the younger generation to enjoy.” The spokesman confirmed that neither Charles nor his second wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, would attend.

The spokesman added, “There will be a memorial service for Diana on August 31, which will be an event for all generations of the Windsors to come together.”

High Court in United Kingdom of Great Britain ruled that a jury should hear the inquest about the death of Princess Diana.

The High Court also overturned a decision that a judge could hear the case sitting alone. The ruling came after a legal challenge from Mohamed al-Fayed. Mohammed is the father of Dodi al-Fayed.

Dodi al-Fayed was the last boyfriend of Princess Diana, who also died in a car crash with the princess in August 1997. His father said Dodi al-Fayed and Princess Diana were killed in a British establishment scheme.

Princess Diana’s resemblance to Kate Middleton is very strange. If you are going to darken and lengthen Princess Diana’s hair, do a little airbrush in the thread lines and reshape the face. They looked like each other.

History should not repeat itself. The headline of Express newspaper includes: “Why we must not let Kate suffer the same fate as Diana.”

What is the possible meaning to this headline? Are they referring to the fate of Princess Diana with the paparazzi?

Lawyers representing Mohammed La Fayed argue with that point. They told the High Court that the decision to hold the inquest regarding Princess Diana’s death behind closed doors is “fatally flawed”.

Michael Beloff QC said: “There is no doubt at all on the evidence available… that the paparazzi were involved in the pursuit of the vehicle which crashed on the night in question.”

“There are those who have in recent months – in particular in regard to Miss Kate Middleton… - said there is an eerie similarity in the way in which the paparazzi are now hounding the young lady and the way in which they hounded the late Princess Diana.”

Perhaps Kate should take extra precaution if paparazzi would pursue her again with their stolen shots of their cameras.