LIFE HISTORY OF DYANA
Early life
Diana Frances Spencer was born into the British aristocracy, the youngest daughter of Edward John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Frances Spencer, Viscountess Althorp (formerly the Honourable Frances Burke Roche). She was born at Park House, Sandringham in Norfolk, England and was baptised at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, by the Rt. Rev. Percy Herbert During her parents'' acrimonious divorce over Lady Althorp''s adultery with wallpaper heir Peter Shand Kydd, Diana''s mother took her two youngest children to live in an apartment in London''s Knightsbridge, where Diana attended a local day school.. On the death of her paternal grandfather, Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer in 1975, Diana''s father became the 8th Earl Spencer, at which time she became Lady Diana Spencer and moved from her childhood home at Park House to her family''s sixteenth-century ancestral home of Althorp.
Royal descent
Diana was born into an aristocratic family with royal Stuart ancestry.On her mother''s side, Diana had Irish, Scottish, English, and American ancestry. Her great-grandmother was the New York heiress Frances Work.On her father''s side, Diana was a descendant of King Charles II of England through four illegitimate sons: She was also a descendant of King James II of England through an illegitimate daughter, Henrietta FitzJames. Henrietta''s mother was Arabella Churchill, the sister of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Education
Diana was first educated at Silfield School in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, then at Riddlesworth Hall in Norfolk and at West Heath Girls'' School (later reorganised as the New School at West Heath, a special school for boys and girls) in Sevenoaks, Kent, where she was regarded as a poor student, having attempted and failed all of her O-levels twice.In 1977, at the age of 16, she left West Heath and briefly attended Institut Alpin Videmanette, a finishing school in Rougemont, Switzerland waitress, before finding a job as a part-time aide at the Young England Kindergarten nursery school.
Engagement and wedding
Prince Charles'' love life had always been the subject of press speculation, and he was linked to numerous glamorous and aristocratic women. In his early thirties, he was under increasing pressure to marry. Legally, the only requirement was that he could not marry a Roman Catholic; a member of the Church of England was preferred. In order to gain the approval of his family and their advisers, any potential bride was expected to have a royal or aristocratic background, be a virgin, as well as be Protestant. Diana met these qualifications.
Their engagement became official February 24, 1981 and they married at St Paul''s Cathedral on 29 July 1981, watched by a global audience of millions.
Divorce
Their divorce was finalised on 28 August 1996.Diana received a lump sum settlement of around £17,000,000 along with a legal order preventing her from discussing the details. Days before the decree absolute of divorce, Letters Patent were issued by Queen Elizabeth II containing general rules to regulate the titles of people who married into the Royal Family after divorce. In accordance with those rules, as she was no longer married to the Prince of Wales, and so had ceased to be a Royal by-marriage, Diana lost the style Her Royal Highness and instead was styled, as Diana, Princess of Wales. Buckingham Palace stated that Diana was still officially a member of the Royal FamilyDeath
On 31 August 1997, Diana died after a high speed car accident in the Pont d''Alma road tunnel in Paris along with Dodi Al-Fayed and the Acting Security Manager of the Hôtel Ritz Paris, Henri Paul, who was instructed to drive the hired Mercedes-Benz through Paris secretly eluding the paparazzi.> Their black 1994 Mercedes-Benz S280 (registration no. 688 LTrteenth pillar of the tunnel. The two-lane tunnel was built without metal barriers between the pillars, so a slight change in vehicle direction could easily result in a head-on collision with a tunnel pillar. None of the four occupants wore seatbelts. Her funeral on 6 September 1997 was broadcast and watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide.
Grave Diana was buried on 6 September 1997. The Prince of Wales, her sons, her mother, siblings, a close friend, and a clergyman were present. Diana wore a black long sleeved dress designed by Catherine Walker; she had chosen that particular dress a few weeks before. Diana was buried with a set of rosary beads in her hands, a gift she received from Mother Teresa, who died the week after Diana. Her grave is on an island in the grounds of Althorp Park, her family home.
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