The Princess of Wales, known as Lady Di, was born at Park House, Sandringham (Norfolk), the July 1, 1961 and died in hospital the Petie Salpetriere in Paris the night of 30 to 31 August 1997 . Achieved worldwide popularity through her marriage to Charles, heir to the British throne, after her divorce and even more by her untimely death.

Youngest daughter of John Spencer, the eighth Earl of Althorp and Frances Ruth Roche, Diana Spencer grew up in a family of minor nobility with her two sisters, Sarah and Jane, and her younger brother, Carlos.She spent the first years of her life in the family residence of Sandringham, where she received her first education in the hands of governesses. In 1968, marriage after divorce Spencer, Diana was under parental custody, and that same year she joined the school in King’s Lynn. In 1970 she moved to the internship female Riddlesworth Hall and in 1973 joined West Heath, another school in the county of Kent. Between 1977 and 1978 she studied in Switzerland and eventually settled in London, where she worked for various companies until November 1977 she met Charles, heir to the British throne, who began dating two years later.

On 24 February 1981, the Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said the official engagement of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince of Wales, and Diana moved home to Clarence House, the residence of the queen mother. The couple’s wedding, which took place on July 29, 1981 in Saint Paul Cathedral in London and was officiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, became a social event of international significance televised to more than seven million viewers . Convened in London to more than one million people and there were at the ceremony were senior members of the European aristocracy and over one hundred seventy heads of state.

On June 21, 1982 Lady Diana gave birth to her eldest son, Prince William, Saint Mary’s Hospital Paddington. That same year, the princess made her first official solo trip to attend the funeral of Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco. In April the following year Diana accompanied Charles to Australia and New Zealand in the first official trip of the couple. The second son of the Princes of Wales, Henry, born on September 15, 1984.

Although Diana tried to lead a life dedicated to caring for their children, their agenda was imposed limitation of more than five hundred official engagements that the marriage was bound to meet annually. Until 1985, the couple showed no disagreement in public but from 1986 the British tabloid press began to publish rumors of marital crisis. Although the family tried to offer an image of unity, the fact is that increasingly became more frequent trips Diana alone and in May 1992 after returning from India and Egypt, leapt to the public. The first rumors of separation. The publication of Andrew Morton’s book about Diana, in which he reaffirmed in the theory of the failure of marriage and confirmation that Carlos had an affair with her old friend, Camilla Parker Bowles, became news speculation in recent months. In early December, the princes of Wales were separated,it was announced a relationship with Diana and James Gilbey and unleashed a veritable war of mutual accusations between the defenders of the princess and the royal house. Some sources revealed then that both Charles and Diana of Wales recruited national newspapers to publish their own versions on the trigger for the break. The marriage broke down permanently in March 1994 to February 29,1996 Diana agreed to divorce from Carlos.

In subsequent years, Diana lent her public image to different humanitarian agencies and appeared in numerous acts for the most marginalized sectors of society.Meanwhile, the tabloids continued to exploit every imaginable facet of the character of Lady Di. Diana herself was to admit her adultery and the list, real or invented, for those who love the princess was to grow to Gilbey joined the names of Barry Mannakke, Philip Dunne, Oliver Hoare and James Hewitt. The last man with whom he was related to Diana Spencer was the origin of Egyptian billionaire Dodi al Fayed. Both were killed in a spectacular car accident, while trying to avoid the paparazzi and traveling at high speed inside the Alma tunnel in Paris. Lady Di was buried in her hometown.

Lady Di’s popularity

The death of Diana Spencer praised the social phenomenon of “dianamania” and the British royal house, which initially showed no little hesitation, acceded to popular demand and held in her honor a magnificent funeral in Westminster, which was broadcast live on television and attended by about two million people.

The life of Diana Spencer, both during their marriage and after separation, was the subject of continuous attention of millions of followers and recurring theme of the “gossip.” All of her appearances in public received special treatment by the media and even their hair and their dress were imitated ad measume. According to the magazine Majesty, Diana generated about fifteen million pounds in advertising to the manufacturers of the items they used. Its popularity far exceeded that of her husband, was always considered an exemplary mother and after her death there were proposals for canonization were finally dismissed.

Diana Of Wales Chronology

1961:

Born into a family of British gentry.

1968:

Divorce of their parents. Diana is under the tutelage of her father, the Earl of Althorp.

1977:

Is set in London. In the course of a hunt at Althorp, he met Prince Charles.

1979:

After a spell in the summer residence of the royal family at Balmoral (Scotland), Diana and Charles established a relationship.

1981:

It celebrates the wedding of Diana and Prince Charles, attended by royalty and the whole host of European leaders. The link was followed on television by 700 million viewers.

1982:

Her son William was born.

1984:

Henry was born, her second child.

1986:

First reports in British tabloids on misunderstanding of the royal couple.

1992:

Uncover the relationship of Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, while Diana is sentimentally attached to James Gilbey.

1994:

Break with the family.

1996:

Diana accepts the proposal for a divorce. The tabloid press attributed several relationships, often without foundation.

1996-1997:

Turns in humanitarian activities and launches a campaign against landmines.

1997:

SHe died in a Paris car crash near the Egyptian millionaire Dodi Fayed. The driver tried to fool the paparazzi who followed the vehicle.

Diana Of Wales Wedding

Charles:

The UK’s Crown Prince was born in Buckingham Palace (London), November 14, 1948. It is the first son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was baptized by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher on 15 December of the year of his birth with the name Charles Philip Arthur George.

The sudden death of his grandfather, King George, 6 February 1952, his mother became the new queen of the British and placed the young prince at the top of the line to the throne. As an heir, received the title of Duke of Cornwall and other symbols of nobility in the region of Scotland. Was not yet five years old when flanked by his grandmother the Queen Mother and Aunt Margaret, Carlos attended the solemn ceremony of the coronation of Elizabeth II, held at Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953.In 1958 the Queen appointed him Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.

He began his training at the Hill House and Cheam London Scholl of Berkshire in April 1962 and joined Gordonstoun, the Scottish prestigious institution where his father had also studied the Duke of Edinburgh. Completed secondary education, he moved in 1967 to Cambridge University to pursue studies in archeology, anthropology and history at Trinity College. Managed to graduate in 1970. He also learned Welsh at Aberystwyth University College, months before the official ceremony of his investiture as Prince of Wales, who chaired the Queen on 1 July 1969 in Caernarfon Castle.

The Prince took his seat in the House of Lords on 11 February 1970 and between 1971 and 1976 developed a military career in the Air Force and the Royal Navy. In the following years, Prince Charles public diversified its interests in a wide range of activities, which highlighted their commitment to environmental protection and national heritage and stated appreciation for architecture, art and literary events. The performance of their many engagements, the Prince said the patronage and the presidency of about 200 organizations of an educational, scientific, artistic or social.

Charles and Diana

They met at a hunting party at Althorp (1977), in which Diana was presented to Carlos. Their affair began after a stay in which the two met again in the summer residence of the royal family at Balmoral in Scotland (1979). Twelve years her senior, Charles announced his engagement (February 1981) after a discreet courtship and married in St Paul’s Cathedral in London (July 1981).

The couple had two sons, William (1982) and Henry (1984), shortly after the birth of the latter started a rumor that the couple suffered marital disagreements. These rumors took shape in 1987, to mark the anniversary of the couple who pass separately. After a string of crises, with the exception of the summer of 1991, Prime Minister John Major announced to the House of Commons the separation of the princes, opening a constitutional crisis of succession to the throne.

After a real war in the media, the confrontation between Charles and Diana reached its maximum virulence with recognition in a television program by the first of adultery (June 1994) and the replication of Diana with the book The Princess in love , Anna Pasternak, in which he acknowledged having had sex with a teacher, riding for five years, end subsequently ratified by Diana in a television interview with the BBC (November 1995).

The divorce was made public on July 12, 1996, sentencing a month and a half later. Protocol of all charges, Diana was devoted to humanitarian activities, particularly through a campaign against land mines (Angola, January 1997). This brought him into more trouble with the British Royal Family, which received accusations of meddling in state affairs. In August 1997, Diana gave about your romance with billionaire Dodi Fayed.

Diana died on August 31, 1997 in a car accident in Paris that also killed her boyfriend, Egyptian billionaire Dodi al Fayed, that occurred when the couple were chased by photographers. The immediate popular commotion joined the mourning declared by major international figures and gave Diana a special aura that made her a character almost revered by much of the British population and even global. To this is added his own personality and their regular participation in public campaigns on behalf of various causes, the most famous of which was promoted for the banning of landmines. On the other hand, the death of Diana of Wales ended up deepening the crisis of the British monarch, represented by the reigning House of Windsor, especially with regard to the degree of acceptance of this attitude by their subjects.