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The birth of Diana
Diana was born in the late afternoon on July 1, 1961, in Sandringham, Norfolk.She was the fourth of five children of the Viscount and Viscountess Althorp (née Frances Roche, later Shand Kydd).The Spencer family was hoping for a male heir to carry on the Spencer title (their third child, a boy, died soon after birth).The Spencer family is one of Great Britain's oldest and most important families, closely allied with the royal family for several generations.[ -
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The Biography of Princess Diana
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Diana was sent to Riddlesworth Hall, an all-girls boarding school
In 1968, Diana was sent to Riddlesworth Hall, an all-girls boarding school. While she was young, she attended a local public school. She did not shine academically, and was moved to West Heath Girls' School (later reorganised as The New School at West Heath) in Sevenoaks, Kent, where she was regarded as a poor student, having attempted and failed all of her O-levels twice. However, she showed a particular talent for music as an accomplished pianist. -
Diana received the title of Lady
Diana received the title of Lady after her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer on 9 June 1975. -
Diana moved to London
Diana moved to London in 1978, living in her mother's flat, as her mother then spent most of the year in Scotland. -
The engagement of Diana and Charles
The Prince of Wales had known Lady Diana for several years, but he first took a serious interest in her as a potential bride during the summer of 1980, when they were guests at a country weekend, where she watched him play polo. The relationship developed as he invited her for a sailing weekend to Cowes aboard the royal yacht Britannia, followed by an invitation to Balmoral (the Royal Family's Scottish residence) to meet his family. -
Diana`s wedding
Twenty-year-old Diana became The Princess of Wales when she married The Prince of Wales on 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral, which offered more seating than Westminster Abbey, generally used for royal nuptials. -
The birth of Prince William
In the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London on 21 June 1982, under the care of Pinker,the Princess gave natural birth to her and the Prince's first son and heir, William Arthur Philip Louis. -
Charity
From the mid-1980s, the Princess of Wales became increasingly associated with numerous charities. -
The birth of her second son
A second son, Henry Charles Albert David, was born two years after William, on 15 September 1984. -
The divorce
During the early 1990s, the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales fell apart, an event at first suppressed, then sensationalised, by the world media. Both the Prince and Princess allegedly spoke to the press through friends, each blaming the other for the marriage's demise.The divorce was finalised on 28 August 1996. -
Death
On 31 August 1997, Diana was fatally injured in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, which also caused the deaths of her companion, Dodi Fayed and the driver, Henri Paul, acting security manager of the Hôtel Ritz Paris. Millions of people watched her funeral.
