Diana

Charles and Diana, the prince and princess of Wales, arrived in Washington under sunny skies Saturday and plunged into a breakneck schedule that ran from a visit to a hospice for the terminally ill to a showbiz-and-society dinner hosted by President Reagan. Charles, the 36-year-old heir to Britain's throne, admitted that he was still "trying to get over the jet lag" after flying here from Australia with an overnight rest in Hawaii.

The civil trial in which Michael Jackson's mother and three children have blamed entertainment powerhouse AEG for the music legend's 2009 death is expected to include a string of witnesses -- a list both lengthy and celebrity-studded. Attorneys for the plaintiffs have listed 97 possible witnesses and the defense 113, many of which overlap. Among those who could testify are Jackson's mother, Katherine' two of his children; his ex-wives Lisa Marie Presley and Debbie Rowe; and nearly all of his siblings.

Britain buried its beloved Diana, Princess of Wales, on Saturday with the same splendor and controversy in which she lived. More than a million people jammed the streets of central London to bid a hushed farewell to the 36-year-old beauty who became a rebel with 100 causes, raising royal hackles while reaching resolutely out to the needy at home and abroad.

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, will christen the new Royal Princess cruise ship in Southampton, Britain, on June 13, sharing a distinction that at one time also went to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , who died this week. The duchess, the wife of Prince William, also follows in her late mother-in-law's footsteps by playing the role of godmother of a ship. Princess Diana christened the original Royal Princess in 1984, also at Southampton. Along with Diana and Thatcher, who christened the Regal Princess in 1991, Middleton shares the godmother distinction with actresses Olivia de Havilland, Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn, who christened other Princess ships.

The death of Princess Diana has led to a surge in demand for books about her life, even as publishers, network executives and television producers tread cautiously toward additional books and movies chronicling her story. Bookstores say material on the princess is flying off their shelves.

Richard Welsh had watched television coverage of Princess Diana all week. He had clipped the newspaper stories for a scrapbook. He had thought a lot about his father, who died 15 years ago. And at 3:03 a.m. Saturday, nestled before a television set in the quiet back room of a West Hollywood coffeehouse, Welsh wept like a child.

DALLAS -- Biggest brother Jean Lopez, the coach, the instigator, the only sibling not to compete for the Olympics in taekwondo, gets choked up for a minute. He is thrilled to speak about his 33-year-old brother, Steve, who will be aiming for a fourth Olympic medal in his fourth Olympics this summer in London. Jean can't help but giggle when he speaks about his 28-year-old sister, Diana, who will compete in her second Olympics and try to better the bronze medal she earned in 2008.

There's something inspiring ? for old-fashioned booklovers ? about an early scene in Deborah Harkness' novel "A Discovery of Witches. " Magical creatures gather as a woman opens a legendary, lost book. Never mind that most of these creatures ? vampires, daemons, witches ? are plotting to get the book out of the hands of Diana, an American professor on a research trip in England. Menace aside, the scene is almost a homage to the printed word: There's far more magic in an old book than in an iPad no matter how good its backlighting is. "My fingers trembled when I loosened the small brass clasps?

Caron Golden has joined the Diana Clark Co. as account writer.

I wonder if Mother Teresa felt Diana needed her. God speed to them both. KAREN SODIKOFF Del Mar

Rihanna got a bloody knee during a tussle at a London club when a reveler allegedly threw a bottle in her direction. The "Stay" singer was in town to debut her River Island collection during London Fashion Week. Her show, which featured RiRi-inspired designs from her costume designer, reportedly started 50 minutes late on Saturday, according to the Telegraph. After the show, Rihanna hit the Box club in London to celebrate. As she was leaving with friends Cara Delevingne and Melissa Forde, a partygoer threw a bottle of a British energy drink at her, yelling something about RiRi getting back together with her controversial beau Chris Brown.

Prominently displayed at the Princess Diana exhibit at the Queen Mary last week was a rack of diaphanous dresses, copies of the one Kate Middleton was modeling when she caught Diana's elder son's attention. The flimsy strapless knit was designed as an overskirt. But at the insistence of organizers of the charity function where she appeared, Middleton wore it over undergarments. Now married to a prince, Middleton has retreated to a more chaste look. But the dresses, and the teasing placard that accompanied them, show how far we have come from the days when Diana "shocked the world" in a low-cut black strapless frock entirely appropriate to a beautiful 19-year-old woman on the verge of becoming a princess.

Diana Thater's post-apocalyptic video installation "Chernobyl" has been shown a few times, but never in a setting that itself is raw with destruction: On Friday, her 2011 work about the Soviet town devastated and depopulated by the 1986 nuclear disaster opens at David Zwirner, one of the New York galleries hit hardest by flooding from Hurricane Sandy. The six-channel video features images of Chernobyl buildings in disrepair, ending with horses galloping around the remains of the nuclear power plant and swans swimming in the cooling pond.

"The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets" A Novel By Diana Wagman Ig Publishing: 240 pp., $15.95 A giant iguana isn't something we've come to expect as a key component in an L.A. novel, but that's what local writer Diana Wagman has done with "The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets. " A brisk and vividly drawn kidnapping tale, Wagman's fourth novel hinges on the 7-foot long lizard of its title, but its core lies somewhere far more familiar to those who call Los Angeles home.

Sept. 2 It's night. Mary Breckenridge is zooming her truck along the narrow, twisting road to Edison Lake. "You ever get nervous driving in the mountains?" I ask, trying to sound merely curious. "Never!" she says, accelerating. Once in the sagging white tent at the "resort," Mary takes out her bear earrings and her hearing aid, lays down in her sleeping bag on one of the four cots and that's it, she's asleep. Her strong, steady snore begins as her head sinks into the pillow.

With a key LAPD investigator under fire for working on a movie about the so-called Bling Ring that targeted celebrity homes, one person pleaded no contest Friday to a single burglary charge for breaking into Lindsay Lohan's home. Diana Tamayo, 21, received three years' probation plus time served in the county jail and 60 days community service with the California Department of Transportation. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors agreed to dismiss charges of conspiracy and receiving stolen property.

The plural in"Headhunters"is not accidental. Though it starts with one man and his conventional-seeming job as a corporate headhunter, before this twisty Norwegian thriller is over two individuals are involved in nonstop pursuit of each other for the highest possible stakes. Like life and death. Taken from the fiendishly plotted novel by Jo Nesbo, one of Scandinavia's top mystery writers, "Headhunters" is a dark adult entertainment, a wild and bloody adrenaline rush of a movie that deals in gleeful grotesqueness and over-the-top implausibilities.

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"Red,” the legendary Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland once proclaimed, “is the great clarifier -- bright, cleansing, revealing. It makes all colors beautiful. I can't imagine being bored with it. It would be like becoming tired of the person you love.” Vreeland (1903-1989), who famously told Park Avenue interior designer Billy Baldwin in 1955 that she wanted her living room to “look like a garden, but a garden in hell,” is the subject of a documentary valentine opening Friday titled “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel.” Looking at Baldwin's finished interpretation -- the setting for Vreeland interview footage -- the mind has to boggle.