The word "diana" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a unisex name, though it is more commonly used as a female name. You can use it as a name or in any other context you see fit. For example: Diana spoke to her mother on the phone for hours every night.
Diana, Princess of Wales, was an early advocate of the adoption of eastern costume, taking her cue from her close friend Jemima Goldsmith, who had more valid reasons to wear the shalwar kameez when she married Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain turned politician, and converted to Islam.
But much of the transformation of the Queen's image, from the chilly, notoriously philistinic matriarch who couldn't care less about Diana to an ever more droll and sympathetic mentor to pitifully grateful prime ministers is surely attributable to Mirren's superb acting, and to the writers who have increasingly depicted the monarch as – so long as you are not Margaret Thatcher – fabulous company.
Not since Diana have we seen eyelash-fluttering on such a ridiculous scale.
It should be a battle of the Princesses as we see Cannes juror Nicole Kidman in Grace of Monaco go toe-to-toe with Naomi Watts in a film now, finally and officially, named Diana.
David is survived by his children, Anna and Tom, from his marriage to Diana, which ended in divorce; and by his grandson, Sam.
In 1981, Charles was marrying Diana on a glorious July morning and we all had a day off to watch it on the telly – except for the thousands who preferred Lancashire v Middlesex at Trafalgar Road.
And once the euphoria and Diana-esque hysteria that surrounded Barack Obama's inauguration recedes, the Irish government soon may be facing a president more committed to American protectionism than an open economy, to a White House that will punish US companies that seek to set up in Dublin rather than Detroit or Cork rather than Chicago.
"Not even with the pope would there have been all this fuss," exclaimed Diana Cucereavii, a waitress in a cafe nearby.
The title of Diana Souhami's book, Murder at Wrotham Hill (Quercus) is underwhelming until one discovers it is not on the crime shelves, but is classified as history.
To turn to the living, and recently ignored in favour of men, the Queen and her secretary have (supposing the honour was not refused) turned their noses up at, listing a few of the most obvious names, Mary Warnock, AS Byatt, Lisa Jardine, Onora O'Neill, Mary Beard, Claire Tomalin, Hilary Mantel, Diana Athill and JK Rowling.
Related: Diana Vishneva: On the Edge review – stamina and conviction pushed to the limit Yet, as purely Russian as Vishneva appears, she is one of the most cosmopolitan ballerinas of her generation.
