The world will have a glamorous new princess in April, when Kate Middleton is set to marry Prince William of Wales at Westminster Abbey. This week, the List looks at some noted princesses in recent history. Princess Diana — Will there ever be a more famous princess? She stole our hearts when she married Prince Charles in 1981. She made headlines throughout the 1980s and 1990s for her glamorous looks, charity work and nasty divorce. Her untimely death in a car crash in 1997 stunned the world. She left behind two sons, Princes William and Harry. Princess Grace of Monaco — It was the fairy-tale wedding of the century. In…

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The Canadian Press Sun, 1 May 2011 00:15:00 CST Today is May 1st: In 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s comic opera “The Marriage of Figaro” had its world premiere in Vienna. Reaction was lukewarm and it wasn’t until the work was presented in Prague later that year that it was a success. In 1904, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak died. In 1930, baritone Charles Marchand, the first important advocate of French-Canadian song, died in Montreal at age 39. He was in charge of the music for Ottawa’s centenary in 1927, and that same year formed a vocal quartet called “The Bytown Troubadours.” In 1930, blues harmonica player Little Walter, real name Marion…

Tuesday, 26 April 2011 10:14 Cornelius Lundsgaard, The Tibet Post International Dharamshala: – Tibet born Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu passed away at his home at the base of the Himalayas in Darjeeling on April 24. Nawang was the first person in the world to reach the Mt Everest summit twice, the first in India to conquer Nanda Devi (24,645ft) and the youngest ever to climb to a height of 26,000 feet. According to www.wikinews.org, Nawang scaled many other Himalayan peaks including Makalu, Nanda Devi and Cho Oyu, and he is credited with discovering several new mountain routes. Nawang Gombu was part of an elite group of Sherpa mountaineers who pioneered…

Erhard Loretan Erhard Loretan, who was killed on April 28, his 52nd birthday, while climbing in Switzerland, was one of the few people to reach the summits of the world’s 14 highest mountains. mountains. Erhard Loretan on the north face of L’Aiguille Verte, Chamonix, France Photo: ALAMY Erhard Loretan on the north face of L’Aiguille Verte, Chamonix, France Photo: ALAMY 5:22PM BST 29 Apr 2011 He was only the third mountaineer in history to scale the 14 Himalayan peaks above 8,000 metres (26,240ft), which include Mount Everest, Annapurna and K2. The feat took him 14 years, and he completed his quest in 1995. With his fellow Swiss climber Jean Troillet,…