Trusts
The royalties from the publications and media productions are, and will be, apportioned to a number of subsidiary Trusts; and the beneficiaries of those trusts are certain charities and organisations which Diana Spencer or Theodore Forstmann would have wanted to support. The Trustees will divide the titles (and the number of titles will grow as the Archive digitization process continues) amongst the various trusts; and therefore, each trust will be able to have different beneficiaries. The Trusts are (and will be) based in a favourable tax regime; and there is a possibility that some of the publications will be tax exempt due to their cultural, legal, or constitutional, subject matter.
Trust Objectives
The objectives of the Trusts are the publication of information, and then the use of the revenues received to provide donations to various charities and organisations.
In that the issues and topics covered in the publications are potentially contentious and damaging to certain individuals and establishment groups, the donations to the beneficiaries will be made anonymously by an appointed legal firm; and that will save the beneficiaries any unwarranted pressure or publicity.
It is proposed that the initial revenues used in donations by the first ‘publishing’ Trust are the first 15 titles listed in the Diana Series.
For example, the suggested beneficiaries of the revenues of this first Trust will include:
Amnesty International, NGO, London, United Kingdom.
JUSTICE, Charity, London, United Kingdom.
La Ligue du Droit International des Femmes, NGO, Paris, France.
Little Star Foundation, Santa Rosa Beach, United States.
Stichting Tekstpierement, NGO, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The British Institute of Human Rights, Charity, London, United Kingdom.
The European Women’s Lobby, NGO, Brussels, Belgium.
All the above organisations had a connection to, or was known to, Diana Spencer, Ted Forstmann, or some other significant person engaged in the project.
The other titles in the Diana Series will be apportioned to other trusts (6 trusts each with +/- 20 titles), with named beneficiaries. The titles in the Forstmann Series will be apportioned to 2 trusts, with named beneficiaries.
Operation
Whereas this is a long running project, started over 35 years ago, with the initial operational plan being for Diana to simply obtain a modest revenue from a couple of autobiographical (ghost-written) books, the project then became more professional with the recruitment of a group of efficient, and well-funded, managers; and, they in turn hired very effective and professional researchers to investigate and produce the necessary data, and evidence, that in turn could provide the ghost-writers with material for their efforts. Very rapidly, the evidence and disclosures contained in the Archive grew and pointed fingers at culpable individuals whom were then afraid of the possibility of public exposure, and possible criminal prosecution for their activities. Those individuals were then very keen to purchase Non-Disclosure Agreements.
The initial ambition of providing Diana with both an income, and a platform for her to express her frustrations and accusations, was superseded by the realisation that Diana could both control various parties, and obtain very substantial NDA payments from them, by simply not publishing the accusatory information that had been gathered by the project.
As the business plan evolved, Diana and her advisors realised that they could actually control those they regarded as being in the enemy camp, and then get paid substantial amounts of offshore cash, for Diana not denouncing her adversaries in public. It was clear at that moment that Diana, and perhaps Forstmann, both saw an escape route for Diana, and the weapons they needed to use against Diana oppressors and opponents; and to ultimately free Diana from her captivity in ‘the Windsor Herd’.
In 1997 Diana Spencer died, however the project Trusts were still receiving the NDA revenues, and the Trustees decided to allow those individuals and entities benefitting from the NDAs to continue paying (with certain additional performance conditions and provisos attached to the agreement). Those NDA revenues were used by the Trusts both for donations to the charities and organisations supported by the Diana during her life (and/or the types of charities she would have wanted to support), and to continue the research being done for the publication project.
Indeed, under Forstmann’s subsequent control of the Trusts, the NDA payments actually increased as Forstmann’s representatives became more assertive with the NDA payees. The objective was to entirely deplete the illicit and corrupt offshore nest-eggs of criminal proceeds, bakhshes, and bribes, collected over the decades by those payees. For many of the malefactors, those nest-eggs actually represented their escape route finances; and indeed, such considerations had obsessed the Windsor Herd, and their confederates, for centuries, as they waited for the knock on the door from the Accusateur, and the dreaded appointment with Madame Guillotine.
The first substantive NDA lapsed in 2021 due to the death of Philip Glücksburg, a man with a vast retinue of skeletons in his cupboard, and a second (and more critical) NDA lapsed in 2022 with the death of Elizabeth Windsor, a woman with considerable fantasy pretentions, and fears of denunciation. However, whereas the payments for the NDAs would persist due to the instructions given (by the above NDA payees) to their legal representatives, those now deceased individuals were unable to continue the performance of their side of the agreement, namely that Elizabeth Windsor would not resign her job function, and hand over her Disneyland on the Thames role to Charles Windsor. Thus, inevitably, the Trusts had to decide when to terminate the NDAs, and to publish according to the documented wishes of the settlors of the Trusts.