The 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death is still a good 13 months away, but that doesn't mean an onslaught isn't still impending - in this case, an avalanche of books on her, the way she died, and her public & private affairs.

Just to name a few, there's CNN's Larry King, promising memories of the Princess reportedly from the likes of Richard Branson and Jeffrey Archer; Tina Brown, the former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, working on a coffee-table breaker that pledges to use a mixture of commentary and reportage to follow the Princess's rise to prominence from "country girl to a global celebrity"; and David and Elizabeth Emmanuel, the designers of her wedding dress who are promising to tell the "inside story" of the gown.

Or as the Independent puts it (while adding yet more upcoming titles to its list) "never, it seems, has royalty provoked such an unseemly pursuit of royalties." So true.