Althorp

This year for the first time I visited Althorp to see the last resting place of Diana, Princess of Wales. I found the whole set up very tasteful, not at all commercialised. The shop did not stock a great amount of souvenirs, the ones that were on sale were not the usual tourist tacky stuff, but rather more tasteful. There was a cafe where refreshments were available at reasonable prices. The grounds were well kept, and the staff were all very helpful, answering questions about the house etc. It was good to visit the exhibitions of Diana's clothes, but I have to say they looked nowhere as good in the displays as they did when she wore them. I was ...  Read the complete review

A friend and I visited Althorp for the Princess Diana memorial the first summer that it was opened to the public. We both wanted to go there for the opportunity to pay our respects to Diana, lay some flowers and then go home. Unfortunately, in order to do this we first of all had to take a tour through Althorp house, the gardens and a museum dedicated to Diana. I cannot deny that the house and gardens are beautiful but at the end of the day we were there for one reason and one reason only, Diana. The museum was lovely and in some ways a fitting tribute to Diana because there was lots of footage being shown of the unfaltering work she did for many ...  Read the complete review

I worked at Althorpe house in 1998 to earn a few quid over the summer towards the bills. It was a about a year after the death of Diana and part of the reason I took the steward position was to see if the mass hysteria that gripped the female and gay population had died away from that fateful bizarre day the previous year. The house itself has been neglected by her brother who now runs it since the late 80s when it was heavily in debt like most country estates who hadn't been bailed out by The National Trust. The improvements are very commercial but in keeping with the splendor of the land and you cant say he went over the top to "cash in" on the families and a ...  Read the complete review

After visiting Althorp house, the family home of princess Diana, I'd like to say what a moving experience it was.It's been 3 years now since the death of Diana, part of Althorp house has been turned into a shrine. What were once stables housing 100 horses is now an exhibition centre celebrating the life of Diana. It consists of 5 rooms which displays several of her outfits including her wedding dress and 2 of her bridemaids dresses. There are also displays of her school reports and letters she'd written as a child to her parents plus old toys and other personal belongings. In one of the rooms there are a lot of the flowers which people laid ...  Read the complete review