COLEGIUL ECONOMIC „ION GHICA” TÂRGOVIȘTE

LUCRARE DE ATESTAT
LIMBA ENGLEZĂ

DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES

ABSOLVENT : BUCUR ANDREEA-IULIANA

CLASA A XII-A F
TURISM INTENSIV - LIMBA ENGLEZĂ

PROFESOR COORDONATOR : TIMOFTE MIHAELA

TÂRGOVIȘTE
2020
 CONTENTS

Argument…………………………………...........................…………………………...3
Introduction………………………...........................…………………………………...4
I. CHILDHOOD…………………..........................…………………………….………5
I.1. Early years………..................……………………....…………….…..........5
I.2. Her parent’s divorce…………………......................…………………........6
I.3. Royal descent................................................................................................7
I.4. Education………...................………………..........………………………..8
II. FAMILY AND MARRIAGE…………………............................…………………..9
II.1. Relationship with the Prince of Wales………............................…………..9
II.2. Engagement and wedding………………...........................……………....10
II.3. Children……………………………..........................….………………...10
II.4. Charity work……………………………….………..........................……11
II.5. Problems and separation……………………………..................................12
II.6. Divorce and personal life after it .................................................................13
II.7. Landmines…………...…………………………………............................15
II.8.Death.............................................................................................................16
II.8.1.Conspiracy theories and inquest.........................................................16
II.8.2. Tribute, funeral, and burial.................................................................16
II.9. Contemporary opinions.................................................................................17
CONCLUSION..................................................…………………………………..…..18
Bibliography………………………............................………………………………...19

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 ARGUMENT

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997)
was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales,
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.
There are many inspiring personalities that I can talk about, but the one who impressed
me the most is Princess Diana of Wales. I have decided to write about her because I consider
her one of the most influential people who has ever lived in this world. One of the most
important things I admire about her is that she was always kind to everyone and she took part
in many charitable events, being best known for this. She dedicated a lot of time to the homeless,
the disabled, people with AIDS and she took a great interest in activities concerning children.
One of the reasons that Princess Diana’s charitable events are so special is because she truly
believed in it, in helping, not only by giving money, but also by offering emotional and spiritual
support.
She also adores animals; she had endless pets, such as guinea pigs, rabbits and hamsters.
Likewise, she declared that: “In my bed I’d have 20 stuffed animals and there would be a
midget’s space for me, and they would have to be in my bed every night.”
Above all this, she was a wonderful mother for both of her children and she always felt
very different from everyone else. Princess Diana even said: “I always felt very different from
everyone else, very detached. I knew I was going somewhere different but had no idea where. I
said to my father when I was aged 13, “I know I’m going to marry someone in the public eye.”
But in spite of how she felt, she had a very unhappy childhood. Her parents were always
busy sorting themselves out. She was frequently seeing her mother crying. Perhaps, Lady Di
felt like a nuisance comparing to her brother who was always the one getting exams, but then
she understood that her parents were crazy to have a son and not only daughters.

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 INTRODUCTION

Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest son
and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II.
She was well known for her fund-raising work for international charities and as an
eminent celebrity of the late 20th century. Her wedding to the Prince of Wales on 29 July 1981
was held at St Paul's Cathedral and seen by a global television audience of over 750 million.
While married she bore the titles Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay,
Countess of Chester and Baroness of Renfrew. The marriage produced two sons, the princes
William and Harry, who became second and third in line to the British throne.
She became a public figure with the announcement of her engagement. She also received
recognition for her charity work and for her support of the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines.
From 1989, she was the president of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, in
addition to dozens of other charities.
Diana remained the object of worldwide media scrutiny during and after her marriage, which
ended in divorce on 28 August 1996. Media attention and public mourning were considerable
following her death in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.

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 CHAPTER 1 – CHILDHOOD

1.1. Early years

They had hoped for a boy, instead, they got Diana.

Diana Frances Spencer was born at Park House, Sandringham in Norfolk, England on 1
July 1961. She was the youngest daughter of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (later the 8th Earl
Spencer) and his first wife Frances Spencer, Viscountess Althorp. She was the fourth child born
to her parents, with older sisters Sarah and Jane, although an infant brother had died a year
before she was born. The family would a few years later welcome younger brother, Charles,
who would become heir to the Spencer titles and estates.
The Spencers had been close to the British Royal Family for centuries, rising in royal
favour during the 1600s. Diana's maternal grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy, was a long-time
friend and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Her father had served as an
equerry to King George VI and to Queen Elizabeth II.
Diana grew up in Park House, practically next door to the Queen. Park House is right
next to the Royals' Sandringham estate. The Spencer children were therefore no strangers to the
princes. Closer in age to Diana than Prince Charles, Prince Andrew was her childhood playmate.

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1.2. The divorce of her parents

Diana has always longed for the love of a united home. Her parents divorced when she
was eight, following her mother's affair with wallpaper heir Peter Shand Kydd. The years that
followed were chaotic and isolating. Diana's mother took her and younger brother Charles to
live in an apartment in London's Knightsbridge, where Diana attended a local day school. At
Christmas the children returned to Norfolk, and Lord Althorp subsequently refused to allow
them to return to London. Their mother sued for custody, but her testimony during the trial
contributed to the court awarding custody of Diana and her brother to their father.
Princess Diana said: << The divorce helped me to relate to anyone else who is upset in
their family life, whether it be stepfather syndrome or mother or whatever, I understand it. Been
there, done it.>>
She also described some things that happened to her after the divorce: “I remember
seeing my father slap my mother across the face. I was hiding behind the door and Mummy was
crying. I remember Mummy crying an awful lot and every Saturday when we went up for
weekends, every Saturday night, standard procedure, she would start crying. On Saturday we
would both see her crying. ‘What’s the matter, Mummy?’ ‘Oh, I don’t want you to leave
tomorrow’, which for a nine-year-old was devastating, you know. I remember the most
agonizing decision I ever had to make. I was a bridesmaid to my first cousin and to go to the
rehearsal I had to be smart and wear a dress and my mother gave me a green dress and my
father had given me a white dress and they were both so smart, the dresses, and I can’t
remember to this day which one I got in but I remember being totally traumatized by it because
it would show favouritism.”
In 1976, Lord Spencer married Raine Legge, Countess of Dartmouth, the only daughter
of romantic novelist Barbara Cartland, after he was named as the "other party" in the
Dartmouths' divorce. During this time, Diana travelled between her parents' homes. None of the
Spencer children liked their new stepmother. Her father inherited the earldom and Spencer seat
in 1975, and Diana inherited the title of "Lady".

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1.3. Royal descent

On her father's side, she was a descendant of King Charles II of England through four
illegitimate sons:
• Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton, son by Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of
Cleveland
• Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox, son by Louise de Kérouaille
• Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, son by Nell Gwyn
• James Crofts-Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, leader of the famous Monmouth
Rebellion in 1685, son by Lucy Walter
She was also a descendant of King James II of England through an illegitimate daughter,
Henrietta Fitz James, by his mistress Arabella Churchill. On her mother's side, Diana was Irish
and Scottish, as well as a descendant of American heiress Frances Work, her mother's
grandmother and namesake, from whom the considerable Roche fortune was derived.
The Spencers had been close to the British Royal Family for centuries, rising in royal
favour during the 1600s. Diana's maternal grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy, was a long-time
friend and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Her father had served as an
equerry to King George VI and to Queen Elizabeth II.
In August 2009, the New England Historic Genealogical Society published Richard K.
Evans's The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, for Twelve Generations.
From her marriage in 1981 to her divorce in 1996 she was styled Her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales. She was generally called "Princess Diana" by the media despite having
no legal right to that particular honorific, as it is reserved for a princess by birthright rather than
marriage.

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1.4. Education

Diana was first educated at Silfield School, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, then at Riddlesworth
Hall in Norfolk, and at West Heath Girls' School (later reorganized as the 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. Her outstanding community spirit was recognized with an
award from West Heath. In 1977, at the age of 16, she left West Heath and briefly attended
Institut Alpin Videmanette, a finishing school in Rougemont, Switzerland. At about that time,
she first met her future husband, who was then dating her eldest sister, Lady Sarah. Diana
reportedly excelled in swimming and diving, and longed to be a professional ballerina with the
Royal Ballet. She studied ballet for a time, but then grew to 5'10", far too tall for the profession.
Diana moved to London before she turned seventeen, living in her mother's flat, as her
mother then spent most of the year in Scotland. Soon afterward an apartment was purchased for
£50,000 as an 18th birthday present, at Coleherne Court in Earls Court. She lived there until
1981 with three flatmates.
In London, she took an advanced cooking course at her mother's suggestion, although
she never became an adroit cook, and worked first as a dance instructor for youth, until a skiing
accident caused her to miss three months of work. She then found employment as a playgroup
(pre-preschool) assistant, did some cleaning work for her sister Sarah and several of her friends,
and worked as a hostess at parties.

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 CHAPTER II – FAMILY AND MARRIAGE

II.1. Relationship with the Prince of Wales

Prince Charles had previously been linked

to Diana's older sister Sarah, and to Davina
Sheffield, Scottish heiress Anna Wallace, the
Honourable Amanda Knatchbull (granddaughter
of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of
Burma), actress Susan George, Lady Jane
Wellesley, heiress Sabrina Guinness and Camilla
Shand, inter alia. In his early thirties, he was under increasing pressure to marry. Under the
Royal Marriages Act 1772, his marriage required the Queen's formal consent. Under the Act of
Settlement 1701, royals must marry within the Church of England or forfeit their place in the
order of succession to the throne. Diana's aristocratic descent, Church of England faith,
presumed virginity and native Englishness appeared to render her a suitable royal bride.
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, 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. There, Diana was well received by Queen
Elizabeth II, by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and by the Queen Mother. The couple
subsequently courted in London. The Prince proposed on 6 February 1981, and Diana accepted,
but their engagement was kept secret for the next few weeks.

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II.2. Engagement and wedding

Their engagement became official on 24 February 1981, after Diana selected a large
£30,000 ring consisting of 14 diamonds surrounding a sapphire, similar to her mother's
engagement ring. 20-year-old Diana became The Princess of Wales when she married Charles
on 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral, which offered more seating than Westminster Abbey,
generally used for royal nuptials. It was widely billed as a "fairytale wedding," watched by a
global television audience of 750 million. At the altar, Diana accidentally reversed the order of
Charles's names, saying Philip Charles Arthur George instead. She did not say that she would
"obey" him; that traditional vow was left out at the couple's request, which caused some
comment at the time. Diana wore a dress valued at £9000 with a 25-foot (8-metre) train. The
couple's wedding cake was created by Belgian pastry chef S. G. Sender, who was known as the
"cakemaker to the kings."
Upon her marriage, Diana became Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales and was
ranked as the most senior royal woman in the United Kingdom after the Queen and the Queen
Mother.

II.3. Children

On 5 November 1981, Diana's first pregnancy was officially announced, and she frankly
discussed her pregnancy with members of the press corps. In the private Lindo Wing of St.
Mary's Hospital, Paddington on 21 June 1982, Diana gave birth to her and Prince Charles's first
son and heir, William. Among some media, she decided to take William, still a baby, on her
first major overseas visit to Australia and New Zealand, but the decision was popularly
applauded. By her own admission, Diana had not initially intended to bring William until it was
suggested by the Australian Prime Minister.
A second son, Harry, was born about two years after William on 15 September 1984. Diana
asserted that she and Prince Charles were closest during her pregnancy with "Harry", as the
younger prince became known. She was aware their second child was a boy, but did not share
the knowledge with anyone else, including Prince Charles.
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 She was universally regarded as a devoted and demonstrative mother. However, she rarely
deferred to Prince Charles or to the Royal Family, and was often intransigent when it came to
the children. She chose their first given names, defied the royal custom of circumcision,
dismissed a royal family nanny and engaged one of her own choosing, in addition to selecting
their schools and clothing, planning their outings and taking them to school herself as often as
her schedule permitted. She also negotiated her public duties around their timetables.

II.4. Charity work

Though in 1983 she confided in Premier of Newfoundland Brian Peckford: "I am finding
it very difficult to cope with the pressures of being Princess of Wales, but I am learning to cope,"
from the mid-1980s, the Princess of Wales became increasingly associated with numerous
charities. As Princess of Wales she was expected to visit hospitals, schools, etc., 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 organizations working with
the homeless, youth, drug addicts and the elderly. 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.

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II.5. Problems and separation

From left to right, Prince Charles and the Princess of Wales, the United
States First Lady Nancy Reagan, and United States President Ronald
Reagan in November 1985.

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.
The chronology of the break-up identifies reported difficulties between Charles and
Diana as early as 1985. During 1986, Prince Charles turned again to his former girlfriend,
Camilla Shand, who had become Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife of Andrew Parker-Bowles. This
affair was exposed in May 1992 with the publication of Diana: Her True Story, by Andrew
Morton. The book, which also laid bare Diana's allegedly suicidal unhappiness, caused a media
storm. This publication was followed during 1992 and 1993 by leaked tapes of telephone
conversations that negatively reflected on both the royal antagonists. Transcripts of taped
intimate conversations between Diana and James Gilbey were published by the Sun newspaper
in Britain in August 1992. The article's title, "Squidgygate", referenced Gilbey's affectionate
nickname for Diana. Next to surface, in November 1992, were the leaked "Camillagate" tapes,
intimate exchanges between Charles and Camilla, published in Today and The Mirror
newspapers.
In the meantime, rumours had begun to surface about Diana's relationship with Major
James Hewitt, her former riding instructor. These would be brought into the open by the
publication in 1994 of Princess in Love.
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

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Camilla, saying that he had only rekindled their association in 1986, after his marriage to the
Princess of Wales had "irretrievably broken down."
While she blamed Camilla Parker-Bowles for her marital troubles, Diana at some point
began to believe Charles had other affairs. In October 1993 Diana wrote to a friend that she
believed her husband was now in love with Tiggy Legge-Bourke and wanted to marry her.
Legge-Bourke had been hired by Prince Charles as a young companion for his sons while they
were in his care, and Diana was extremely resentful of Legge-Bourke and her relationship
with the young princes.

II.6. Divorce and personal life after it

Diana was interviewed in a BBC Panorama interview with journalist Martin Bashir,
broadcast on 20 November 1995. In it, Diana asserted of Hewitt, "Yes, I loved him. Yes, I adored
him." Of Camilla, she claimed, "There were three of us in this marriage." For herself, she said,
"I'd like to be a queen of people's hearts." On Charles's suitability for kingship, she said:
"Because I know the character I would think that the top job, as I call it, would bring enormous
limitations to him, and I don't know whether he could adapt to that."
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 Tiggy
Legge-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".
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 Queen,
irritating Buckingham Palace by issuing her own announcement of a divorce agreement and its
terms.
The divorce was finalized on 28 August 1996.

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 Diana received a lump sum settlement of around £17 million along with a clause standard
in royal divorces preventing her from discussing the details. Diana and her advisers negotiated
with Charles and his representatives, with Charles reportedly having to liquidate all of his
personal holdings, as well as borrowing from the Queen, to meet her financial demands. The
Royal Family would have preferred an alimony settlement, which would have provided some
degree of control over the erstwhile Princess of Wales.
Days before the decree absolute of divorce, Letters Patent were issued with general rules
to regulate royal titles after divorce. In accordance, as she was no longer married to the Prince
of Wales, Diana lost the title Her Royal Highness and, instead was titled, Diana, Princess of
Wales. Buckingham Palace issued a press release on the day of the decree absolute of divorce
was issued, announcing Diana's change of title.
Buckingham Palace stated Diana was still a member of the Royal Family, as she was the
mother of the second- and third-in-line to the throne, which was confirmed by the Deputy
Coroner of the Queen’s Household, Baroness Butler-Sloss, after a pre-hearing on 8 January
2007: "I am satisfied that at her death, Diana, Princess of Wales continued to be considered as
a member of the Royal Household.” This appears to have been confirmed in the High Court
judicial review matter of Al Fayed & Ors v Butler-Sloss. In that case, three High Court judges
accepted submissions that the "very name ‘Coroner to the Queen’s Household’ gave the
appearance of partiality in the context of inquests into the deaths of two people, one of whom
was a member of the Family and the other was not.”

II.7. Landmines

In January 1997, pictures of the Princess touring an Angolan minefield in a ballistic

helmet and flak jacket were seen worldwide. It was during this campaign that some accused the
Princess of meddling in politics and declared her a 'loose cannon.'. In August 1997, just days
before her death, she visited Bosnia with the Landmine Survivors Network. Her interest in
landmines was focused on the injuries they create, often to children, long after a conflict is over.
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

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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.

The United Nations appealed to the nations that produced and stockpiled the largest
numbers of landmines (United States, China, India, North Korea, Pakistan, and Russia) to sign
the Ottawa Treaty forbidding their production and use, for which Diana had campaigned. Carol
Bellamy, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), said that
landmines remained "a deadly attraction for children, whose innate curiosity and need for play
often lure them directly into harm's way".

II.8. Death

On 31 August 1997, Diana died in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris
along with her then boyfriend, Dodi Al-Fayed and the acting security manager of the Hôtel Ritz
Paris, Henri Paul, who was their chauffeur. An estimated 2.5 billion people watched the
princess's funeral.

II.8.1. Conspiracy theories and inquest

The initial French judicial investigation concluded that the accident was caused by Henri
Paul's drunken loss of control. From February 1999, Dodi's father, Mohamed Al-Fayed (the
owner of the Paris Ritz, for which Paul had worked) maintained that the crash had been planned,
accusing the MI6 as well as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Inquests in London during 2004
and 2007 finally attributed the accident to grossly negligent driving by Henri Paul and the

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pursuing paparazzi. The following day Mr. Al-Fayed announced he would end his 10-year
campaign for the sake of the late Princess of Wales' children.

II.8.2. Tribute, funeral, and burial

The sudden and unexpected passing of a very popular royal figure brought statements
from senior figures worldwide and many tributes by members of the public. People left public
offerings of flowers, candles, cards and personal messages outside Kensington Palace for many
months.
Diana's funeral took place in Westminster Abbey on 6 September 1997. The previous
day Queen Elizabeth II had paid tribute to her in a live television broadcast.[48] Her sons, the
Princes William and Harry, walked in the funeral procession behind her coffin, along with the
Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Edinburgh, and with Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, 9th
Earl Spencer.

II.9. Contemporary opinions

From her engagement to the Prince of Wales in 1981, until her death in 1997, Diana was
an iconic presence on the world stage, often described as the world's most photographed woman.
She was noted for her compassion, style, charisma, and high-profile charity work, as well as her
difficult marriage to Prince Charles.
Diana was revealed to be a major source behind Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story
which had portrayed her as being wronged by the House of Windsor. Morton instanced Diana's
claim that she attempted suicide while pregnant by falling down a series of stairs and that
Charles had left her to go riding. Tina Brown opined that it was not a suicide attempt because
she would not have intentionally tried to harm the unborn child. Brown cites an aide that says
that Diana accidentally slipped and other sources claim it was an accident.

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 Royal biographer Sarah Bradford commented, "The only cure for her (Diana's) suffering
would have been the love of the Prince of Wales which she so passionately desired, something
which would always be denied her. His was the final rejection; the way in which he consistently
denigrated her reduced her to despair." Diana herself commented, "My husband made me feel
inadequate in every possible way that each time I came up for air he pushed me down again ..."
Diana herself admitted to struggling with depression, self-injury, and bulimia, which
recurred throughout her adult life. One biographer suggested that Diana suffered from
Borderline personality disorder.
In 2007, Tina Brown wrote a biography about Diana as a "restless and demanding
shopaholic who was obsessed with her public image" as well as being "spiteful, manipulative,
media-savvy neurotic." Brown also claims that Diana married Charles for his power and had a
romantic relationship with Dodi Fayed to anger the royal family, with no intention of marrying
him.

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 CONCLUSIONS

Taking everything into consideration, I strongly believe that Diana deserved the title
“The Princess of Hearts”, because from the time of her engagement with the Prince of Wales
in 1981, until her death due to a car accident in 1997, she was arguably the most famous woman
in the world; the pre-eminent female celebrity of her generation: a fashion icon, an image
of feminine beauty, admired and emulated for her high-profile involvement in AIDS issues and
the international campaign against landmines.
An iconic presence on the world-stage, Diana, Princess of Wales was noted for her
admirable charity work. Yet her generous efforts were overshadowed by her scandal-plagued
marriage to Prince Charles. Her bitter accusations via friends and biographers of adultery,
mental cruelty and emotional distress visited upon her riveted the world for much of the 1990s,
filling magazine articles and television movies.
During her lifetime, she was often referred to as the most photographed person
in the world, and 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 saw her life as a
cautionary tale of how an obsession with publicity can ultimately destroy an individual

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