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Diana, Princess of Wales

"Diana Spencer" redirects here. For other persons of this name, see Diana Spencer

(disambiguation).

Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances;]ne Spencer; 1 July 196131 August 1997) was an

international personality of the late 20th century as the first wife ofCharles, Prince of Wales,whom she married on 29 July 1981. The wedding, held at St. Paul's Cathedral, was televised and

watched by a global audience of over 750 million people. The marriage produced two sons:

Princes William and Harry, currently second and third in line to the thrones of the 16Commonwealth realms, respectively.

A public figure from the announcement ofher engagement to Prince Charles, Diana was borninto an old, aristocratic English family with royal ancestry, and remained the focus of worldwide

media scrutiny before, during and after her marriage, which ended in divorce on 28 August 1996.

This media attention continued following her death in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997,and in the subsequent display ofpublic mourning a week later. Diana also received recognition

for her charity work and for her support of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. From

1989, she was the president ofGreat Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

Early life

Diana Spencer was born late afternoon on July 1, 1961, in Sandringham, Norfolk. She was thethird child born to John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, Viscount Althorp, and Frances Ruth Burke

Roche, Viscountess Althorp (later known as Frances Shand Kydd). While her family was

overjoyed, there was no hiding that the fact that the entire Spencer family was hoping for a male

heir to carry on the Spencer name. The Spencer family is one of Great Britain's oldest and mostimportant families. They have been closely allied with the royal family for over five hundred

years. Since they were initially expecting a boy, they had no name when she was first born. A

week later they settled on Diana Frances, after a Spencer ancestress and her mother. Diana wasthe sister ofLady Sarah McCorquodale, Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes, and Charles Spencer,

9th Earl Spencer. Diana was baptized at Sandringham church, with normal commoners as god

parents. While her baby brother, Charles, was baptized at Westminster Abbey with QueenElizabeth II as principal god parent. She also had another brother, John, who died a year before

she was born. According to Andrew Morton's biography about the Princess of Wales, he was so

deformed and sick that he only survived ten hours after he was born. This initially put strain on

John and Frances' marriage. Lady Frances Althorp was sent to Harley Street clinics in London,

after old members of the Spencer family questioned why she could only give birth to girls. Theexperience was described as "humiliating", with Charles Spencer, the current Earl Spencer

saying: "It was a dreadful time for my parents and probably the root of their divorce because I

don't think they ever got over it." While she was young, Diana caught the pitch of her family'sfrustration. She considered herself a nuisance, and later felt an overwhelming load of guilt over

it. These feelings she later learned to accept and recognize. Diana grew up in Park House which

was situated near to the Sandringham estate.
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Diana's parents separated when she was only seven years of age. They divorced because her

mother, Frances, had an affair with Peter Shand Kydd. In Morton's book, he described how sheremembered her father packing suitcases, her mother crunching across the gravel forecourt, and

driving away through the gates of Park House. Shortly after, her father, John Spencer, won

custody of both her and her three siblings. She was first educated at Riddlesworth Hall, and later

attended boarding school at The New School at West Heath. In 1973, John Spencer began arelationship with Raine Legge, the Countess of Dartmouth, the only daughter of Alexander

McCorquodale and Barbara Cartland. Lord Spencer and Lady Dartmouth were married at Caxton

Hall, London, on 14 July 1976. As Countess Spencer, Raine was unpopular with herstepdaughter Lady Diana Spencer. However, media reports have suggested that at the time of her

death, Diana was reconciled with her stepmother, while her relationship with her mother Frances

Shand Kydd, had been strained. Diana received the title of Lady after her father inherited title ofEarl Spencer in 1975. Diana was often noted for her shyness while growing up, but she did take

an interest in both music and dancing. She also had a great interest in children. After attending

finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Switzerland, she moved to London. She

began working with children, eventually becoming a kindergarten teacher at the Young England

School. Diana had apparently played with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex asa child while her family rented Park House, an estate owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

Education

Coleherne Court, London (left)

At the age of seven, Diana was sent to Riddlesworth Hall, an all-girls boarding school. While shewas young, she attended a local public school. It was common practice for upper-class families

to send their children to boarding schools at around age eight. Initially very homesick, Diana fell

into the common boarding school routine. 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. Heroutstanding community spirit was recognised 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 schoolin 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 thengrew to 5'10", far too tall for the profession.
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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 afterwards, an apartment was purchased for50,000 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 neverbecame an adroit cook, and worked 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. Diana also spent time working as a nanny for an American family living in

London.

Relationship

Prince Charles, Princess Diana and Sandro Pertini

Prince Charles had previously been linked to Diana's elder sister Sarah, and in his early thirties

he was under increasing pressure to marry. Under the Act of Settlement 1701, royals forfeit theirsuccession rights to the Throne if they marry "papists" (Roman Catholics). Diana's Church ofEngland faith, native Englishness, and lack of an obvious "past" appeared to render her a suitable

royal bride both legally and socially.

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 toCowes 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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Engagement and wedding

Charles and Diana's wedding commemorated on a 1981 British CrownMain article: Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer

Their engagement became official on 24 February 1981, after Diana selected a large 30,000ring, 85,700 in today's terms, consisting of 14 diamonds surrounding a sapphire, similar to her

mother's engagement ring. The ring was made by the then crown jewellers Garrard but,

unusually for a member of the Royal Family, the ring was not unique and was, at the time,

featured in Garrard's jewellery collection. The ring was later used in 2010 as the engagement ringofKate Middleton, the wife of Diana's elder son Prince William.

Twenty-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 while 600,000 people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Diana enroute to the ceremony. At the altar Diana accidentally reversed the order of Charles's first two

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 chefS. G. Sender, who was known as the "cakemaker to thekings."

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 Arthur Philip Louis. Amidst some media criticism, she decided to take

William, still a baby, on her first major tours of Australia and New Zealand, but the decision was

popularly applauded. By her own admission, Diana had not initially intended to take William

until it was suggested by Malcolm Fraser, the Australian prime minister.

A second son, Henry Charles Albert David, was born about two years after William, on 15September 1984.[26]Diana asserted that she and Prince Charles were closest during her

pregnancy with "Harry", as the younger prince was 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 regarded by a biographer as a devoted and demonstrative mother. 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, dismissed a royal family nanny and engaged one of her own

choosing, selected their schools and clothing, planned their outings and took them to school

herself as often as her schedule permitted. She also negotiated her public duties around their

timetables.

Charity work

Though in 1983 she confided in the then-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 the20th-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. From 1989, she was President of GreatOrmond 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.

Problems and separation

From left to right, Prince Charles and the Princess of Wales, the United States First Lady NancyReagan, 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 Diana began an affair with Major James Hewitt and Prince Charles

turned to his former girlfriend, Camilla Shand, who had become Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife ofAndrew Parker-Bowles. These affairs were exposed in May 1992 with the publication ofDiana:

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 byleaked tapes of telephone conversations which negatively reflected on both the royal antagonists.
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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", referencedGilbey'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

theMirrornewspapers.

In the meantime, rumours had begun to surface about Diana's relationship with 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's "amicable separation" tothe 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, sayingthat 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 due to her previous

relationship with Charles, 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 TiggyLegge-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.

Divorce

Princess Diana at the Cannes film festival in 1987. Diana was interviewed in a BBC Panorama

by journalist Martin Bashir, broadcast on 20 November 1995. In it, Diana asserted of Hewitt,
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"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 suitabilityfor 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 resultof 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-Rucktodemand 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 Counsellors, and, according to the BBC, was decided after two

weeks of talks. Prince Charles immediately agreed with the suggestion. In February Dianaannounced her agreement after negotiations with Prince Charles and representatives of the

Queen, irritating Buckingham Palace by issuing her own announcement of a divorce agreementand its terms.

The divorce was finalised on 28 August 1996.

Diana received a lump sum settlement of around 17 million along with a clause standard inroyal divorces preventing her from discussing the details.

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 styleHer Royal Highness and instead was styledDiana, Princess of Wales.

Buckingham Palace issued a press release on the day of the decree absolute of divorce wasissued, announcing Diana's change of title, but made it clear that Diana continued to be a British

princess.

Almost a year before, according to Tina Brown, Prince Philip had warned Diana: "If you don'tbehave, my girl, we'll take your title away." Diana is alleged to have replied: "My title is a lot

older than yours, Philip", implying that her own family, the Spencer family, was older and more

aristocratic than the House of Windsor.

Buckingham Palace stated that Diana was still a member of the Royal Family, as she was the

mother of the second- and third-in-line to the throne. This was confirmed by the Deputy Coroner

of the Queen's Household, Baroness Butler-Sloss, after a pre-hearing on 8 January 2007: "I amsatisfied 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 ofAl 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 ofpartiality in the context of inquests into the deaths of two people, one of whom was a member ofthe Family and the other was not."
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Personal life after divorce

After the divorce, Diana retained her double apartment on the north side ofKensington Palace,which she had shared with Prince Charles since the first year of their marriage, and it remained

her home until her death.

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, beforeKhan 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 theinquest 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.

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 onLong 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 in the south of France, where hiscompound 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.

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 Jerry White and Ken Rutherford of the Landmine Survivors Network.

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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 the

Second Reading of the Landmines Bill 1998 to the British House of Commons, the ForeignSecretary, 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 oflandmines. 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 which produced and stockpiled the largest numbersof 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,
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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 lurethem directly into harm's way".

Death

Entrance to the Alma Tunnel in Paris, where Princess Diana was fatally injured

Main article: Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

On 31 August 1997, Diana was fatally injured in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel inParis, which also caused the death of her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul,

acting security manager of the Htel Ritz Paris. Millions of people watched the princess' funeral.

Conspiracy theories and inquest

Main article: Death of Diana, Princess of Wales conspiracy theories

The initial French judicial investigation concluded that the accident was caused by Henri Paul'sdrunken 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, accusingMI6 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 to the pursuing

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

Tribute, funeral, and burial

Princess Diana's funeral cortege. Her coffin was transported on a gun carriage

Main article: Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
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The sudden and unexpected death of a very popular royal figure brought statements from senior

figures worldwide and many tributes by members of the public. People left public offerings offlowers, 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. Her sons, the Princes Williamand 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.

Memorials

The first of two memorials to Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al-Fayed in Harrods

"Innocent Victims", the second of two memorials in Harrods.

Immediately after her death, many sites around the world became briefly ad hoc memorials toDiana, where the public left flowers and other tributes. The largest was outside the gates of

Kensington Palace. Permanent memorials include:

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Queen Elizabeth II.

The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Playground in Kensington Gardens, London.
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The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk, a circular path between KensingtonGardens, Green Park, Hyde Park and St. James's Park, London

In addition, there are two memorials inside Harrods department store, at the time owned by Dodi

Al-Fayed's father Mohamed Al-Fayed, in London. The first memorial consists of photos of the

two behind a pyramid-shaped display that holds a wine glass still smudged with lipstick fromDiana's last dinner as well as an 'engagement' ring Dodi purchased the day before they died. The

second, unveiled in 2005 and titled "Innocent Victims", is a bronze statue of the two dancing ona beach beneath the wings of an albatross. There is an unofficial memorial in Paris, Place de

l'Alma: it is the flame of liberty, erected in 1999.

Memorabilia

Following Diana's death, the Diana Memorial Fund was granted intellectual property rights

over her image. In 1998, after refusing the Franklin Mint an official license to produce Dianamerchandise, the fund sued the company, accusing it of illegally selling Diana dolls, plates and

jewellery. In California, where the initial case was tried, a suit to preserve the right of publicitymay be filed on behalf of a dead person, but only if that person is a Californian. The Memorial

Fund therefore filed the lawsuit on behalf of the estate and, upon losing the case, were requiredto pay the Franklin Mint's legal costs of 3 million which, combined with other fees, caused the

Memorial Fund to freeze their grants to charities.

In 1998, Azermarka issued postage stamps with both Azeri and English captions,

commemorating Diana. The English text reads "Diana, Princess of Wales. The Princess thatcaptured people's hearts".

In 2003, the Franklin Mint counter-sued; the case was eventually settled in 2004, with the fund

agreeing to an out-of-court settlement, which was donated to mutually agreed charitable causes.

Today, pursuant to this lawsuit, two California companies continue to sell Diana memorabiliawithout the need for any permission from Diana's estate: the Franklin Mint and Princess Ring

LLC.

Diana in contemporary art
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Enterance to Alma tunnel,where Princess Diana had fatal car-crash

Diana has been depicted in contemporary art since her death. Some of the artworks have

referenced the conspiracy theories, as well as paying tribute to Diana's compassion and

acknowledging her perceived victimhood.

In July 1999, Tracey Emin created a number of monoprint drawings featuring textual references

about Diana's public and private life, for Temple of Diana, a themed exhibition at The BlueGallery, London. Works such as They Wanted You To Be Destroyed(1999)

related to Diana's

bulimia, while others included affectionate texts such asLove Was On Your Side and Diana's

Dress with puffy sleeves. Another text praised her selflessness - The things you did to help other

people, showing Diana in protective clothing walking through a minefield in Angola - while

another referenced the conspiracy theories. Of her drawings, Emin maintained "They're quite

sentimental . . . and there's nothing cynical about it whatsoever."

In 2005 Martin Sastre premiered during the Venice Biennial the film Diana: The Rose

Conspiracy. This fictional work starts with the world discovering Diana alive and enjoying ahappy undercover new life in a dangerous favela on the outskirts ofMontevideo. Shot on a

genuine Uruguayan slum and using a Diana impersonator from So Paulo, the film was selected

among the Venice Biennial's best works by the Italian Art Critics Association.

In 2007, following an earlier series referencing the conspiracy theories, Stella Vine created aseries of Diana paintings for her first major solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford gallery. Vine

intended to portray Diana's combined strength and vulnerability as well as her closeness to hertwo sons. The works, all completed in 2007, included Diana branches,Diana family picnic,

Diana veil andDiana pram, which incorporated the quotation "I vow to thee my

country".Immodesty Blaize said she had been entranced byDiana crash, finding it "by turns

horrifying, bemusing and funny" Vine asserted her own abiding attraction to "the beauty and thetragedy of Diana's life".

Later events

On 13 July 2006 Italian magazineChipublished photographs showing the princess amid the

wreckage of the car crash, despite an unofficial blackout on such photographs being published.The editor ofChi defended his decision by saying that he published the photographs simply

because they had not been previously seen, and that he felt the images are not disrespectful to the

memory of the Princess. Fresh controversy arose over the issue of these photographs when

Britain's Channel 4 broadcast them during a documentary in June 2007.

1 July 2007 marked a concert at Wembley Stadium. The event, organised by the Princes Williamand Harry, celebrated the 46th anniversary of their mother's birth and occurred a few weeks

before the 10th anniversary of her death on 31 August.

The 2007 docudramaDiana: Last Days of a Princessdetails the final two months of her life.On

an October 2007 episode ofThe Chaser's War on Everything, Andrew Hansen mocked Diana in

his "Eulogy Song", which immediately created considerable controversy in the Australian media.
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Contemporary opinions

John Travolta and Diana, Princess of Wales dancing at the White House

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'sDiana: 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 hadleft her to go riding. Tina Brown opined that it was not a suicide attempt because she would not

intentionally have tried to harm the unborn child.

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 a "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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