One of the documentary audio tributes is England's Rose: a Tribute to Princess Diana, and the CD can be purchased for $15.95 at Soundworks.    

If you want a a classical music tribute,  type "tribute to Diana" in the search box in the Classical Music section of Amazon, and you will get two classical instrumental music compilations. One has fifteen tracks including  the Londonderry Air, Pachelbel's Canon,  I Vow to Thee, My country, Libera Me, Make Me a Channel of Your Peace, and Goodbye, England's Rose, at prices starting at $5.45. The other compilation has no music from her funeral, but was released this year by the London Symphony Orchestra and has works by Debussy, Grieg, and others, and is priced at  2.98!

Amazon UK has the little-known CD Madrigals and Wedding Songs for Diana, a lovely collection of 16th and 17th century songs celebrating marriage and maidens which was originally issued for the Royal Wedding in 1981. It sells for 12.99 pounds in the Classical Music section. (It is no longer in stock at US Amazon, except for a second-hand seller who has priced it for $53.50.
Even with overseas shipping, this will still be cheaper.)

Jazz Composer Oscar Peterson did a CD in honor of Charles and Diana's wedding titled A Royal Wedding Suite. You can listen to excerpts from it, as well as purchase used or new copies, from Amazon.

Princess Diana: The Secret Tapes was a two part NBC news special that aired on March 5 and March 12, 2004, and was repeated again on one night. The broadcast was eventually released as the DVD, Diana Revealed: the Princess No One Knew. Andrew Morton was interviewed by Katie Couric the day before the first part aired on MSNBC, and the story also has a link to a Deborah Norville Tonight broadcast on The Story Behind Di's Secret Tapes.

BBC America has knocked down the price for a videotape of Prom at the Palace: The Queen's Jubilee Celebrations to $14.98.
If you're interested, just click on shop at the top of the home page, then click on the pop up box of shows in the middle of the page.

The web site for the notorious April 21, 2004 CBS 48 Hours broadcast, Diana: Secret Documents Revealed, is still up, and there is a link on the site to the Tapes and Transcripts section, if you wish to order a copy of this broadcast.

MSNBC has made some excerpts available from the Diana Revealed broadcast of Dec. 6 on their site. I've seen at least one person offering an DVD copy from Britain while doing internet searching looking for information about this program.

The Lifetime television network has a site about Royal Weddings that was intended to get you interested in ordering their Royal Weddings video. (Regrettably, it is no longer available, but since it was originally produced for the Intimate Portrait series, there is always the possibility it could be rebroadcast.)  Aside from several Windsor brides, they also cover Princess Grace, Queen Noor, and the present Crown Princess of Japan. They have video footage of some of the weddings on the site, as well as a listing of the most eligible royal bachelors. Two of them are probably not eligible for much longer, and a third is definitely off the list since his marriage last year.

On March 9, 2003, various psychics attempted to contact Diana in a pay-per-view television show titled A Seance to Contact the Spirit of Diana. If you missed it, their website is still up, which gives some details about the production and offers the program on DVD or VHS for $19.95, and they include three free videos on Mysteries, Magic and Miracles, which according to them is an $80.00 value. However, if you want to save yourself some money, you can get it for $6.64 and shipped free at deepdiscountdvd.com. Since it is marked as Region 0, it can be played on a DVD player from any region.

Diana at the Park is only available from Airtime TV in both PAL and NTSC. (This video is of particular interest because Paul Burrell and his sons accompanied her that day to a theme park, and it is the source of all those wonderful shots you see of her shooting down water rides with William and Harry.) The cost is 20 pounds plus 5 pounds shipping for the UK and 35 pounds plus 10 pounds shipping for the rest of the world, and they do take credit cards. The company itself is rather unusual, since it takes videotape footage of celebrities, including members of the Royal Ramily, going through Heathrow Airport and sells it to the networks.

The Discovery Channel gift shop has Diana, Story of a Princess, the four hour BBC documentary which was released in the summer of 2001, for only $7.99 for the DVD, plus shipping, as well as the DVD Unsolved History: Death of Princess Diana for $21.95.

Biography has aired a number of programs on the Windsors, though at least two of them (the programs on the Duke and Duchess of York) were revised for the Meet the Royals series.Sadly, most of them have gone out of print. To see what is available for purchase, click on Store, then All Subjects, then Biography, then Royalty, and among the 16 videos under this section you will find Sarah Ferguson: Untamed Royal (Meet theRoyals),  A Wife for Wills (Meet the Royals), and The Trouble with Harry (Meet the Royals). However, other programs from the series are repeated from time to time on both the A & E biography and The Biography Channel, so check your local listings periodically. Two other programs available from this store are: Conspiracy? Princess Diana, which is 50 minutes long and available for $24.95, and Jewels of the British Crown, which is available after July 24, 2006.

During the summer of 2002, the E! cable television network broadcast the Royalty A to Z series produced by Prince Edward's Ardent production company. The schedule  has links to the episode guide, which includes programs on Princess Diana and Prince William. It was rebroadcast at least once this past year, so maybe it is possible they might show it again.

In the past, the E! network has also run two Diana programs: an E! True Hollywood Story episode about her and a documentary, Princess Diana's Legacy. Unfortunately, they don't sell copies of those programs, but they have rebroadcast them around the anniversary of her death, so check listings in the week before or after her death. The site does have links to a lot of information about her; just type Princess Diana in the search box on their main page, and you'll find a fact sheet and links to many old news stories as well as information about previous programs aired.

By now most of you have presumably had the opportunity to see Helen Mirren in The Queen, , which has gone into widespread release throughout the US. (I saw it myself in early December when it quite surprisingly played in my town for two weeks, and I was stunned at what an incredibly accurate reproduction of those days it was. Mirren had Her Majesty down to every detail, even to being more upset over the death of a stag than over Diana, and in capturing the conversations at Balmoral and Downing Street, one had such a sense of being a fly on the wall that it was hard to tell where reality stopped and art began.
The illusion was so well-maintained I could feel my pulse racing as the Mercedes pulled out on its last fatal ride from the perspective of the passengers in back seat...) The film has been nominated for several Golden Globe awards, and it will be interesting to see how it does in the Oscars.  I did read a newspaper account from a London paper that the Queen has seen the film and loved Mirren's performance, though she had no comment anything else involved with the film. (Unfortunately, the article said nothing about what Prince Philip thought about the film or its depiction of him.)

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