Spencer: End Diana Charity

Princess Diana's brother has written to the trustees of her memorial fund, asking them to wind up the charity because he believes it is degrading Diana's name, the Times of London reports. Earl Spencer "fears the fund is never going to stop, and the idea of it going on and on, making money out of the princess's name, is certainly not what she would have wanted," the Times quoted an unnamed Spencer aide as saying. The newspaper reported that Spencer has asked the nine trustees to fix a date to stop taking donations for the fund, set up after the princess's death in a Paris car crash on Aug. 31. (The fund is expected to raise $160 million by the end of the year.) Spencer believes that some fund actions have been tasteless, and he was indignant when margarine tubs bearing Princess Diana's official commemorative logo went on sale in March. Vivienne Parry, one of the fund's trustees, said Spencer was being naive in trying to shut down the trust.