Lady Diana- Princess of hearts

1. Lady Diana- Princess of hearts

2. Chapter I “Earlier life of Princess Diana” • Diana Frances Spencer was born as the youngest daughter of Edward Spencer and Frances Spencer. • She was educated at Riddlesworth Hall in Norfolk and at West Heath Girls' School. • Diana was a talented amateur singer, excelled in sports and reportedly longed to be a ballerina.

3. Chapter II “The Relationship with Prince of Wales” • Prince Charles had known Diana for several years, but he first took a serious interest in her as a potential bride during the summer of 1980. • The relationship developed as he invited her for a sailing weekend to Cowes aboard the royal yacht Britannia, followed by an invitation to Balmoral to meet his family.

4. Engagement and wedding • Their engagement became official on 24 February 1981. • Twenty-year-old Diana became The Princess of Wales when she married Charles on 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral. • It was widely billed as a "fairytale wedding," watched by a global television audience of 750 million while 600,000 people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Diana en route to the ceremony.

5. Children • On 5 November 1981, Diana's first pregnancy was officially announced and on 21 June 1982, Diana gave birth to her and Prince Charles's first son and heir, Prince William of Wales. • A second son, Harry, was born about two years after William on 15 September 1984. • She was regarded by a biographer as a devoted and demonstrative mother.

6. In 1983 Diana confided in Premier of Newfoundland : "I am finding it very difficult to cope with the pressures of being Princess of Wales, but I am learning to cope“. • As Princess of Wales she was expected to visit many hospitals and schools.In the 20th-century model of royal patronage. Diana developed an intense interest in serious illnesses and health-related matters outside the purview of traditional royal involvement, including AIDS and leprosy. • In addition, the Princess was the patroness of charities and organisations working with the homeless, youth, drug addicts and the elderly. Charity work

7. From 1989, she was President of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. • During her final year, Diana lent highly visible support to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a campaign that went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 after her death.

8. During the early 1990s, the marriage of Diana and Charles fell apart, an event at first suppressed, then sensationalised, by the world media. Both the Prince and Princess of Wales allegedly spoke to the press through friends, each blaming the other for the marriage's demise. • In December 1992, Prime Minister John Major announced the Wales' "amicable separation" to the House of Commons and the full Camillagate transcript was published a month later in the newspapers, in January 1993. On 3 December 1993, Diana announced her withdrawal from public life. Charles sought public understanding via a televised interview with Jonathan Dimbleby on 29 June 1994. In this he confirmed his own extramarital affair with Camilla, saying that he had only rekindled their association in 1986, after his marriage to the Princess of Wales had "irretrievably broken down." Problems and separation

9. In December 1995, the Queen asked Charles and Diana for "an early divorce," as a direct result of Diana's Panorama interview. This followed shortly after Diana's accusation that TiggyLegge-Bourke had aborted Charles's child, after which Legge-Bourke instructed Peter Carter-Ruck to demand an apology. Two days before this story broke, Diana's secretary Patrick Jephson resigned, later writing Diana had "exulted in accusing Legge-Bourke of having had an abortion". Divorce

10. On 20 December 1995, Buckingham Palace publicly announced the Queen had sent letters to Charles and Diana advising them to divorce. The Queen's move was backed by the Prime Minister and by senior Privy Councillors, and, according to the BBC, was decided after two weeks of talks. Prince Charles immediately agreed with the suggestion. In February Diana announced her agreement after negotiations with Prince Charles and representatives of the Queen, irritating Buckingham Palace by issuing her own announcement of a divorce agreement and its terms.The divorce was finalised on 28 August 1996.

11. Diana dated the respected heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, from Jhelum, Pakistan, who was called "the love of her life" after her death by many of her closest friends, for almost two years, before Khan ended the relationship. Khan was intensely private and the relationship was conducted in secrecy, with Diana lying to members of the press who questioned her about it. Khan was from a traditional Pakistani family who expected him to marry from a related Muslim clan, and their differences, not only religion, became too much for Khan. According to Khan's testimonial at the inquest for her death, it was Diana herself, not Khan, who ended their relationship in a late-night meeting in Hyde Park, which adjoins the grounds of Kensington Palace, in June 1997. Chapter III “Personal life after divorce”

12. Within a month Diana had begun dating Dodi Al-Fayed, son of her host that summer, Mohamed Al-Fayed. Diana had considered taking her sons that summer on a holiday to the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, but security officials had prevented it. After deciding against a trip to Thailand, she accepted Fayed's invitation to join his family on the south of France, where his compound and large security detail would not cause concern to the Royal Protection squad. Mohamed Al-Fayed bought a multi-million pound yacht on which to entertain the princess and her sons

13. Just after midnight on August 31, 1997, in Paris, a car carrying Diana, Princess of Wales, and her new love interest, "Dodi" Fayed, plus a bodyguard and a driver, went out of control in a Paris tunnel and crashed. Fayed and the driver were killed instantly; Diana died later in a hospital despite efforts to save her Chapter IV “The death of Lady Diana”