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1981 BCE
Marriage
They were guests at a country weekend during the summer of 1980 when she watched him play polo and he took a serious interest in Diana.The relationship progressed when he invited her aboard the royal yacht Britannia for a sailing weekend.Lady Diana was well received by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Charles subsequently courted Diana in London. The Prince proposed on 6 February 1981, and Lady Diana accepted, but their engagement was kept secret for the next few weeks. -
EARLY LIFE
was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the British throne, and the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry. Diana's activism and glamour made her an international icon and earned her an enduring popularity as well as an unprecedented public scrutiny, exacerbated by her tumultuous private life. -
Education and career
Diana was initially home-schooled under the supervision of her governess, Gertrude Allen.[18] She began her formal education at Silfield Private School in Gayton, Norfolk, and moved to Riddlesworth Hall School, an all-girls boarding school near Thetford, when she was nine.[19] She joined her sisters at West Heath Girls' School in Sevenoaks, Kent, -
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Education and career
After attending Institut Alpin Videmanette for one term, and leaving after the Easter term of 1978 Diana returned to London, where she shared her mother's flat with two school friends.In London, she took an advanced cooking course, but seldom cooked for her roommates. -
PUBLIC APPEAREACES
Following her engagement to Prince Charles, Diana made her first official public appearance -
Children
Prince William,On 21 June 1982,
A second son, Prince Harry, was born on 15 September 1984 The Princess said she and the Prince were closest during her pregnancy with Harry. -
CANCER
For her first solo official trip, Diana visited The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, a cancer treatment hospital in London.She later chose this charity to be among the organisations that benefited from the auction of her clothes in New York.The Princess had done much to remove the stigma and taboo associated with diseases such as cancer, AIDS, HIV and leprosy. Diana became president of the hospital.The Wolfson Children's Cancer Unit was opened by Diana. -
PUBLIC APPEARANCES
she announced that she would withdraw from public life, -
DIVORCE
The Princess discussed her own and her husband's extramarital affairs. Referring to Charles's relationship with Camilla, she said so it was a bit crowded.Authors Tina Brown, Sally Bedell Smith and Sarah Bradford support Diana's admission in the interview that she had suffered from depression, and had engaged numerous times in the act of self mutilation; the show's transcript records Diana confirming many of her mental health problems. -
PERSONAL LIFE AFTHER DIVORCE
Diana retained the double apartment on the north side of Kensington Palace that she had shared with the Prince of Wales .She also moved her offices to Kensington Palace but was permitted "to use the state apartments at St James's Palace".Furthermore was allowed to use the air transport of the British royal family and government.In a book published in 2003, Paul Burrell claimed the Princess's private letters had revealed that her brother, Lord Spencer, had refused to allow her to live at Althorp. -
DIED
Diana died in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris while the driver was fleeing the paparazzi. The crash also resulted in the deaths of her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver, Henri Paul, who was the acting security manager of the Hôtel Ritz Paris.The televised funeral, 6 Sept ,was watched by a British television audience that peaked at 32.10 million, which was one of the United Kingdom's highest viewing figures ever. Millions more watched the event around the world.