Diana

Diana L. King, a retired unemployment claims adjuster and avid reader, died of pulmonary hypertension Sunday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Lutherville resident was 71. Born Diana Lowenstein in Worcester County, her parents later owned and operated a grocery store on Baltimore's Broadway. She was raised on Ann Street in the Fells Point neighborhood and graduated from Eastern High School. Mrs. King worked for many years in the Towson office of the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.

Working late one evening last October, her secretary already gone, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz picked up the phone when it rang in her chambers at the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.It was White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, asking if she would consider an appointment to the federal appellate court.Perhaps he was looking for her husband, she gently suggested. J. Frederick Motz, a Reagan appointee to Maryland's federal bench, was considered by many, including his wife, to be an obvious choice for an appellate seat.

From secret sources, I have obtained what could be an authentic transcript of marriage counseling sessions with Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Or maybe it isn't authentic, but that doesn't matter in modern journalism.Here are portions of their poignant efforts to resolve their marital differences and live happily ever after.Counselor: "I'd like each of you to tell me what your major $H problems are. Who would like to start?"Charles: "I'll start. I find her to be something of a ninny. Pleasant to look at, I suppose, but not a brain in her head, poor thing."

Diana H. McLaughlin, a women's advocate and former staff member of New Directions for Women, died of colitis Sept. 14 at the Atlanta home of her daughter. The former Baltimore resident was 85. She was born Diana Holloway in New Rochelle, N.Y., and was raised in Lansdowne, Pa., where she graduated from high school. She resided for many years in Redington Beach, Fla., with her husband, Martin J. McLaughlin. After a divorce, she moved to Baltimore in 1976 and settled in Charles Village. She went to work for New Directions for Women - now Maryland New Directions Inc., a nonprofit counseling agency and career resource center - as a staff member for its Center for Displaced Homemakers.

You might not have noticed it, but Princess Diana has been in self-imposed exile for the last year. It would be frightening to think what the results would be if she were actually looking for media attention.The "news" of Di in exile comes to us from CBS, which is airing an hourlong special on the Princess of Wales on "Eye to Eye with Connie Chung," at 10 tonight on WBAL (Channel 11).Only three of the five segments were made available for preview. The other big news in those three segments is that the princess is on Prozac.

LONDON -- The de-sanctification of Diana, Princess of Wales, has already begun.The first dissonant sounds in the harmony of grief that has unfolded much of this week came as Britain prepared itself for Diana's funeral. They are tentative criticisms, but of the sort often sent her way when she was alive.She's getting it at home and from abroad, from people who professed to admire her in the past, such as Camille Paglia, the controversial American feminist, and from old enemies as well. Bizarre conspiracy theories are in the air, part of the traffic on the Internet, collected by newspapers in pubs and off the streets.

WHAT DID the 11 members of the jury in the Princess Diana inquest learn from their trip to Paris and visit to the Alma tunnel? They stayed inside for 15 minutes looking at the gouged-out notorious 13th pillar, which still has chunks of concrete missing and shows the steel rods underneath. That's where Diana's Mercedes hit. They also walked farther up the tunnel and looked back to the entrance, seeing the famous "black spot" as the road curves into the tunnel. This may have contributed to chauffeur Henri Paul losing control of the limousine.

LONDON -- With a brief speech and tearful walks among throngs of their grieving subjects, Britain's royal family rallied itself and its country on the eve of this morning's funeral for Diana, Princess of Wales.Queen Elizabeth II praised her former daughter-in-law yesterday as "an exceptional and gifted human being," adding that "no one who knew Diana will ever forget her."Meanwhile, Diana's sons, Princes William, 15, and Harry, 12, accompanied by her former husband, Prince Charles, made an emotional pilgrimage to her former London palace as Britons by the score bowed and wept.

In the final part of a five-part excerpt from "Behind Palace Doors: Marriage and Divorce in the House of Windsor" by Nigel Dempster and Peter Evans, Diana's friends tell of the princess' plans to divorce Prince Charles and seek happiness in the arms of another man. The princess of Wales began 1985 determined to overcome two problems: She had to defeat the bulimia that she knew had become a serious risk to her health; and now that she had dutifully delivered...

PHILADELPHIA -- Like people the world over, Martin Baker spent last Saturday night riveted to the television set as it reported news of Princess Diana's Paris car crash, of her injuries, and her eventual death.Unlike people the world over, Baker, vacationing with his wife, Ann Elise Smoot, at her parents' house in Radnor, Pa., had to do more than just mourn once the funeral arrangements were announced.Baker is the sub-organist at Westminster Abbey, the second-in-command, after the abbey's conductor.