JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: Overseas now to a memorial to Princess Diana. It's being officially opened today in London at a playground for children. Diana's brother was there, but members of the royal family were conspicuously absent. Missing too: the frenzy that surrounded Diana's every appearance. CNN's Richard Blystone has more.</s>RICHARD BLYSTONE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Diana used to draw snappers like this just by going to the gym. But Friday, at a new playground with a Peter Pan theme, a small, quiet, almost private ceremony -- not a single superstar nor a single member of the royal family. Diana's memory management is now in the hands of a memorial committee which wants to keep at bay the kind of hysteria that followed the princess in life, and in death heaped the grounds outside Kensington Palace with wrapped-up flowers. Committee member and close Diana friend Rosa Monckton spoke not of glamour.</s>ROSA MONCKTON, FRIEND OF DIANA: For Diana had a particular gift with children. She knew how to get inside the child's mind.</s>BLYSTONE: The $2 1/2 million project near Diana's old home is nothing like a shrine, is designed for rowdy fun for handicapped as well as able-bodied children. A 10-minute walk away, Diana worship continues nearly three years after her death. Smaller-scale, but fervor undiminished.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's still people around, still people around. We will never make her die.</s>BLYSTONE: But the excitement, the giddy quickening of the pulse that Diana inspired, that seems gone for good. The memorial committee has spent $2 million establishing and beautifying a Diana memorial walk, a footpath all along the garland of royal parks that span central London. (on camera): You can call it a pilgrim's progress or just a seven-mile hike, but it sure is a big difference. Richard Blystone, CNN, London.
Britons Open Memorial to Princess Diana Without Media Frenzy