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.