TOURS SPOTLIGHT LOCALES, LINKS.

Byline: Sue Leeman Associated Press 

Look, here's the Albany apartments where actor Terence Stamp lived. He gave Princess Diana elocution lessons, you know. And isn't that the Tramp nightclub, where Dodi Fayed partied, several decades before dating the most famous royal?

Oh yes, and here's the U.S. Embassy, Grosvenor Square. Around the corner lived Alice Keppel, mistress of King Edward VII and great-grandmother of (gasp) Prince Charles' longtime girlfriend, Camilla Parker Bowles.

Welcome to Princess Diana's London, a walking tour where no royal link is too tenuous, no gossip too vague.

Bring 4.50 pounds - a pound less for children - and a pair of stout shoes and you get a brisk three-hour stride in the steps of a fun-loving princess. There's plenty of hard biographical detail - spiced with hearsay, doubtful anecdotes and sheer trivia.

Did you know that since Prince Andrew returned to live at Buckingham Palace after his divorce, Queen Elizabeth II has acquired satellite TV? Proof, surely, that his ex-wife, Sarah, was right when she called him a couch potato, according to tour guide Helena Jones.

``We've done a lot of research, but people don't just want the hard facts,'' says Jones, who has delved into Andrew Morton's biography of Diana for lurid details of her battles with bulimia, royal protocol and a fading marriage. ``I say `allegedly' a lot because a lot of it you can't prove.''

Pamela Barton, a Lynchburg, Va., native who recently took the tour put on by the London Walks company, called it ``a mixture of random facts, history, allegations and anecdotes. I'm not taking it too seriously.''

The tour, which runs Thursday afternoons, starts at the Ritz, where Jones presents a potted history of the hotel before adding, ``And, of course, from another Ritz hotel, Diana and Dodi took their final car journey . . .''

Next is Spencer House, Diana's former ancestral home in Green Park with its voluptuous statues of Bacchus and Ceres.

Then there's a distant view across the Mall of Buckingham Palace, with the balcony where Charles and Diana kissed on their wedding day (but only after the queen gave her approval, according to Jones) and it's on to Clarence House, where Diana lived before her marriage, and St. James's Palace, where her body came on its return from France.

There's no escaping Camilla: Jones reminds you that it was at St. James's Palace that Charles' paramour recently met Diana's 16-year-old son, William, for the first time.

Other stops include Dodi's apartment building on Park Lane, the royal jewelers Asprey's, the auctioneers Christie's, which sold Diana's dresses, and the up-market tailors Turnbull and Asser.