Slow Sales

Sales of tickets to visit Princess Diana’s ancestral home and burial place 65 miles northwest of London have been slow this year, with nearly half still unsold three months before the gates are to be opened to the public. Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, will open the Althorp estate and the museum he created in the Princess of Wales’ memory from July 1 through Aug. 30, the day before the second anniversary of her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997. About 150,000 people visited last year, but more than 70,000 of the 152,000 available tickets remain unsold this year.