The V&A's retrospective of her costumes from Neighbours to now has been a sellout among Kylie-loving Londoners who have at last found a celebrity who has been wronged enough and suffers stoically enough to qualify her for Princess Di's shoes.

But we, it seems, are more conventional in our royal links. Consolata Boyle is the only Irish woman to be nominated in this year's Oscars and that is thanks to her uncanny ability to make the queen of thespians Helen Mirren into a doppelganger for Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen.

The 10th anniversary of the events portrayed in Stephen Frears' acclaimed film falls on 31 August.

The most famous car crash in the world happened at precisely 23 minutes past midnight, inspiring the title of a fictionalised account of the death of Princess Diana in that Paris tunnel, 12:23, written by our own Eoin MacNamee and published by Faber.

The Sligo-based author is the first of three writers to publish novels or memoirs about the deaths of Lady Di, Harrods heir Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul, and his contribution is likely to reignite the campaigns of Dianaphile conspiracy theorists whose flames were well and truly quenched by the recent Lord Stephens report.

McNamee is highly regarded for his portrayal of fact through fiction, with The Ultras, his novel about the British undercover agent Robert Nairac, drawing widespread critical acclaim. McNamee's novel is out in June and the following month sees the publication by Transworld of The Accident Man, the debut thriller from journalist Tom Cain. Also in June, Century will publish former New Yorker editor Tina Brown's offering, The Diana Chronicles. Billed as an insider's view of the life of the late Queen of Hearts, it will, according to its editor, "make us think, 'Yes, that's what it was like to be there.'" To quote a Kylie song from that time (1988) when Princess Di reigned supreme, "We should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. . ."