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| Birth Name(s) : Diana Frances Spencer |
Date of Birth: July 1, 1961 |
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Diana, Princess of Wales, was the youngest daughter of four children and was involved in the official duties of the Royal family soon after her marriage to Prince Charles. She was renowned for her style and was closely associated with the fashion world, but will perhaps be best remembered for her charitable work.
The tragic death of Lady Di occurred on August 31st, 1997 following a high-speed car accident in Paris, France. |
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Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their sons, Princes William and Henry (Harry), are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth Realms.
In August 2007, the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, Massachusetts, published Richard K. Evans's The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, for Twelve Generations, a comprehensive account of the Princess's forebears in all lines, including:
- James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, an ancestor of Sarah, Duchess of York and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who secured the passage of the Reform Act of 1832
- Maria Walpole, wife of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
- Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, an ancestor of Sir Winston Churchill
- William Anne Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, an ancestor of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
- William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, an ancestor of Charles, Prince of Wales
- Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth, an ancestor of Sophie, Countess of Wessex
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
- Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, the first British prime minister
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, the Restoration poet
Their engagement became official February 24, 1981 and they married at St Paul's Cathedral on 29 July 1981, watched by a global audience of millions.
Diana received a lump sum settlement of around £17,000,000 along with a legal order preventing her from discussing the details.
Days before the decree absolute of divorce, Letters Patent were issued by Queen Elizabeth II containing general rules to regulate the titles of people who married into the Royal Family after divorce. In accordance with those rules, as she was no longer married to the Prince of Wales, and so had ceased to be a Royal by-marriage, Diana lost the style Her Royal Highness and instead was styled, as Diana, Princess of Wales.
The alternative 'court' she cultivated was sometimes seen as unconventional and controversial. Included within it were numerous New Age healers and spiritualists, the feminist empowerment therapist Susie Orbach, well known personalities such as Gianni Versace, George Michael, Elton John, and Michael Barrymore with whom she would visit Soho nightclubs, bohemian members of the aristocracy such as Annabel Goldsmith, university students, several tabloid journalists and Stephen Twigg, nicknamed 'Rasputin' for his influence. It was apparently Twigg who helped Diana realise her potential as an INFP, and introduced her to Jungian theories in general, which she had previously derided as an interest of her ex-husband.
She is believed to have influenced the signing, though only after her death, of the Ottawa Treaty, which created an international ban on the use of anti-personnel landmines. Introducing the Second Reading of the Landmines Bill 1998 to the British House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, paid tribute to Diana's work on landmines:“All Honourable Members will be aware from their postbags of the immense contribution made by Diana, Princess of Wales to bringing home to many of our constituents the human costs of landmines. The best way in which to record our appreciation of her work, and the work of NGOs that have campaigned against landmines, is to pass the Bill, and to pave the way towards a global ban on landmines.”—Robin Cook
July 1, 2007 marked a concert held by her two sons celebrating the 46th anniversary of her birth. The concert was held at Wembley Stadium and featured many well known and popular acts on the bill.
On an October 2007 episode of The Chaser's War on Everything, Andrew Hansen remembered Diana in his now infamous "Eulogy Song." However it made fun of Diana, calling her a "slut", among other things. The song immediately gained considerable controversy in the Australian media.
On October 2, 2007 a new inquest began into her death and is scheduled to last for at least 6 months.
From the time of her engagement to the Prince of Wales in 1981 until her death after a car accident in 1997, Diana was one of the most famous women in the world - a pre-eminent celebrity of her generation. During her lifetime, she was often described as the world's most photographed woman. To her admirers, the Princess of Wales was a role model — after her death, there were even calls for her to be nominated for sainthood — while her detractors consider her to have been suffering from a mental illness. One biographer suggested that Diana was possibly suffering from Borderline personality disorder. Diana admitted to struggling with depression, and the eating disorder bulimia, which recurred throughout her adult life.
Posthumously, as in life, she is most popularly referred to as "Princess Diana", a title she never held. She is still sometimes referred to in the media as "Lady Diana Spencer", or simply as "Lady Di". After Tony Blair's famous speech she is also referred to as the People's Princess.
Diana's full style, while married, was Her Royal Highness The Princess Charles Philip Arthur George, Princess of Wales and Countess of Chester, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Carrick, Baroness of Renfrew, Lady of the Isles, Princess of Scotland.
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