Princess diana 3
Princess diana 3Diana, Princess of Wales, formerly Lady Diana Frances Spencer, was born on July 1, 1961 at Park House, near Sandringham, Norfolk. She was the youngest daughter of the then Viscount and Viscountess Althorp, now the late Earl Spencer VIII and then Hon. Mrs. Shand-Kydd, daughter of fourth Baron Fermoy. Earl Spencer was Equerry to George VI from 1950 to 1952 and to the Queen from 1952 to 1954. Lady Diana's parents married in 1954, separated in 1967, and were divorced in 1969. Earl Spencer later married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth in 1976.
Diana, her two older sisters, Sarah and Jane, and her younger brother, Charles lived with their father at Park House, Sandringham until the death of her grandfather, Earl Spencer VII. The family moved to the Spencer family seat at Althorp in Northamptonshire, in 1975.
Diana first went to Riddlesworth Hall, a preparatory school in Diss, Norfolk, and then in 1974 went to West Heath, near Sevenoaks, Kent, as a boarder. Diana Had a talent for music as an accomplished pianist, dancing and domestic science. She left West Heath in 1977 and went to finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. She left finishing school after the Easter term of 1978. She then moved to Coleherne Court, London. For a while she looked after the child of an American couple and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico.
On February 24, 1981, it was officially announced that Diana was to marry the Prince of Wales. They were married at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981. The ceremony drew a global television and radio audience estimated at around 1,000 million people and hundreds of thousands of people lining the way from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's Cathedral. Diana was the first Englishwoman to marry an heir to the throne for 300 years.
The Prince and Princess of Wales spent part of their honeymoon at the Mountbatten family home at Broadlands, Hampshire. They then flew to Gibraltar to join the Royal Yacht HMY BRITANNIA for a twelve-day cruise through the Mediterranean to Egypt. They finished their honeymoon with a trip to Balmoral.
Diana and Charles made their vacation home at Highgrove House near, Tetbury, Cloucestershire, and shared an apartment in Kensington Palace. The Princess had two sons. Prince William Arthur Philip Louis was born on June 21, 1982 and Prince Henry (Harry) Charles Albert David was born on September 15, 1984, both at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, in London. Diana had seventeen godchildren.
In December of 1992, it was announced that the Prince and Princess of Wales had agreed to separate. Diana based her household and office at Kensington Palace, while Charles was based at St. James's Palace and continued to live at Highgrove. In November of 1995, Diana gave a television interview in...
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