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Prince Philip denies insults of DianaBy Times staff writer© St. Petersburg Times published November 25, 2002 LONDON -- Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth, has made a public denial of news reports that he sent Diana, Princess of Wales, insulting letters calling her a "harlot" and a "trollop." "Prince Philip wishes to make it clear that at no point did he ever use the insulting terms described in media reports, nor that he was curt or unfeeling in what he wrote," read the unusually detailed statement issued by Buckingham Palace on Saturday. The denial was in response to claims by Simone Simmons, a self-described "energy healer" to Diana, that the princess had shown Simmons derogatory letters with those words from Prince Philip. The report first appeared in The Mail on Nov. 10. Philip is known as a plain talker with a bent for verbal gaffes, and various royal biographers have written that he was the most outspoken royal in disapproval of the princess in the aftermath of the breakdown of her marriage to Charles. Bond knocks Potter out of top spotLOS ANGELES -- Super-spy James Bond has outcharmed boy wizard Harry Potter. Die Another Day, the 20th Bond flick, took in $47-million during opening weekend, the best debut ever for the franchise, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Bond movie bumped Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, to No. 2. In its second weekend, Chamber of Secrets grossed $42.4-million, pushing its 10-day total to $148.5-million.
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