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Diana:Princess of Wales [VHS]

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When you mail order videotapes it's hard to know what you're getting but this tape is definitely one for the home collection. It is very tastefully done and covers Diana's life from early years to her tragic death and funeral. The narration and background classical music add to the quality of the tape. The producers also selected some wonderful footage of Diana, new and old, instead of using the same old stock tape you see again and again on some videos. I really enjoyed watching it and it's a tape I would watch repeatedly. A good value at $14.99. END

The video starts out with some shots of the flowers people put out for the Princess, then a bit of the funeral, followed by what is mostly a history of her life with the Royal Family and ends with the hearse going through the gates at Althorp. You see a lot of footage from the entire time period, a little of it unfamiliar to me, but don't really learn anything most of us don't already know. The writers avoided going very deeply into the scandal area and give the Diana/Dodi romance story a little too much credence in my view but on the whole a good program to watch and own, especially if you can't afford to have all of the videos out there.