Diana Frances Spencer
She grew up in Park House, situated on the Sandringham estate.
John died when he was a baby, one year before Diana was born.
She was educated in England and Switzerland.
Initially Diana was home schooled under the supervision of a governess.
She began her formal education at Silfield Private School in Gayton, Norfolk.
She said she she saw her father slap her mother across the mouth.
Diana was seven years old when her parents divorced.
When she was nine, she moved to an all girls boarding school, Riddlesworth Hall School.
She didn't do that well in school.
She received an award from West Heath for her outstanding community spirit.
She excelled in swimming and diving, and studied ballet and tap dance.
In 1975 she became known as Lady Diana Spencer, when her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer.
Diana didn't like her step mother.
She often called her step mother a bully and on one occasion, pushed her stepmother down the stairs.
Diana described her childhood as "very unhappy and unstable".
Diana first met Charles when she was 16 in November 1977.
In 1978 she attended the Institut Alpin Videmanette for one year.
Then Diana moved into her mother's flat in London, which she shared with two school friends.
She took an advanced cooking course.
She took a series of low paying jobs.
She worked as a dance instructor for youth, a playgroup pre-school assistant, did some cleaning work for her sister Sarah and several of her friends, acted as a hostess at parties,a nanny, and worked as a nursery teacher's assistant.
She lived there with three flatmates until February 25, 1981.
She did not say that she would "obey" him, which caused some comment at the time.
Her wedding dress cost around $12,000.
Reportedly, she didn't like her dress.
Her wedding was described as a "fairy tale wedding" and was watched by a global television audience of 750 million people while 600,000 spectators lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the couple en route to the ceremony.
After she became Princess of Wales, Diana automatically acquired rank as the third-highest female in the United Kingdom Order of Precedence.
During her marriage, Diana was Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, and Countess of Chester.
Diana undertook royal duties on behalf of the Queen and represented her at functions overseas.
The prince and princess visited Whales in October 1981.
Diana fell down a staircase at Sandringham, twelve weeks into the pregnancy.
Although she had suffered severe bruising, the fetus was uninjured.
Later Diana confessed that she had intentionally thrown herself down the stairs.
The Queen release a statement saying that it was "the blackest day in the history of British journalism."
She attended the Trooping the Colour for the first time in June 1982.
She decided to take baby William on her first major tours of Australia and New Zealand.
She confided in the then-Premier of Newfoundland, Brian Peckford, in 1983 "I am finding it very difficult to cope with the pressures of being Princess of Wales, but I am learning to cope with it."
Diana traveled in February 1984,to Norway on her own to attend a performance organised by the company.
Diana gave her children a less traditional up bringing.
She chose their first given names, dismissed a royal family nanny, selected their schools and clothing, planned their outings, and took them to school herself as often as her schedule permitted. She also organised her public duties around their timetables.
The Prince and Princess of Wales visited Italy, in April 1985 and were later joined by Princes William and Harry.
The couple traveled to the United States in November 1985.
In 1986, Diana and Charles went on a tour of Japan, Indonesia, Spain, and Canada.
She was celebrated for her charity work and the different causes she stood up for.
Diana was awarded, in 1987, the Honorary Freedom of the City of London, the highest honor which is in the power of the City of London to bestow on someone.
She became the Turning Point's patron in 1987 and visited the charity on a regular basis, meeting the sufferers at its centers or institutions including Rampton and Broadmoor.
In November 1987, a few days after the death of Jean O'Gorman and her brother from cancer, Diana met her family.
The two deaths affected the Princess, and she assisted their family to establish Children with Leukaemia (later renamed Children with Cancer UK) in 1989.
The Prince and Princess of Wales visited Thailand in 1988 and toured Australia for the bicentenary celebrations.
She was involved in dozens over charities which included the London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, of which she was president from 1989.
She was patron of the Natural History Museum and president of the Royal Academy of Music.
In 1989, she opened Landmark Aids Centre in South London.
Diana spent a few days in New York as a solo visit in February 1989.
Diana said: "HIV does not make people dangerous to know. You can shake their hands and give them a hug. Heaven knows they need it. What's more, you can share their homes, their workplaces, and their playgrounds and toys."
The Queen did not support this type of charity work, suggesting she get involved in "something more pleasant".
From the mid-1980s, she became increasingly associated with numerous charities.
She made several lengthy visits each week to Royal Brompton Hospital, where she worked to comfort seriously ill or dying patients.
Diana became a patron of Relate in 1989.
Diana became the president of the hospital, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, in 1989.
She visited several of its hospitals around the world, especially in India, Nepal, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
She famously touched those affected by the disease when many people believed it could be contracted through casual contact.
She said, "It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed".
In March 1990, she and the Prince of Wales toured Nigeria and Cameroon.
Highlights of the tour included a dinner hosted by the president, visits by the Princess of Wales to hospitals and projects focusing on women's development.
It was the first visit by members of the Royal Family to "a former Warsaw Pact country".
There they attended a dinner held by the president and viewed a fashion display at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest.
Diana went to the Peto Institute and presented its director with a OBE.
During a speech in 1990, for Turning Point she said, "It takes professionalism to convince a doubting public that it should accept back into its midst many of those diagnosed as psychotics, neurotics and other sufferers who Victorian communities decided should be kept out of sight in the safety of mental institutions."
She made a trip to Pakistan later that year in order to visit a rehabilitation center in Lahore as a sign of "her commitment to working against drug abuse".
She supported the the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
She was a patron of the National AIDS Trust.
In December 1990, the Princess of Whales traveled to Germany to meet with family of soldiers of the Gulf War.
Also in September 1991 she went to Brazil with Charles, where she
paid visits to organisations that battled homelessness among street children.
From 1991 to 1996, she was a patron of Headway,
Her final trips with Charles were to India and South Korea in 1992.
They also met again later that year.
She supported organisations that battle poverty and homelessness.
She stood up and spoke out for them stating "they deserve a decent start in life" and "We, as a part of society, must ensure that young people – who are our future – are given the chance they deserve."
One of the staff members said "The young people at Centrepoint were always really touched by her visits and by her genuine feelings for them".
Prince William later became the patron of this charity.
In 1992, she became the first patron of Chester Childbirth Appeal.
She established and led fundraising campaigns for AIDS research.
In November, the next year, she stated that she wanted to make a partial return.
In her capacity as the vice-president of British Red Cross, she was interested in playing an important role for its 125th anniversary celebrations.
Also, the Queen invited Diana to the anniversary celebrations of D-Day.
Prince William later replaced his mother as the charity's royal patron.
Diana went to the Venice Biennale art festival, and also visited Moscow where she received the International Leonardo Prize, in June 1995.
She visited many other countries, including Belgium, Nepal, Switzerland, and Zimbabwe, alongside numerous others.
Diana raised awareness and advocated for ways to help people affected with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and mental illness.
In recognition of her effect as a philanthropist, Stephen Lee, director of the UK Institute of Charity Fundraising Managers, said "Her overall effect on charity is probably more significant than any other person's in the 20th century."
Five years into their marriage, Diana and Charles' 13 age difference and incompatibility became apparent.
The book also revealed the Princess's allegedly suicidal unhappiness.
During 1992 and 1993, leaked tapes of telephone conversations negatively reflected on both the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Between 1992 and 1993, Diana hired voice coach to help her develop her public speaking voice.
The show's transcript records Diana confirming many of her mental health problems, that she had suffered from depression, "rampant bulimia" and had engaged numerous times in the act of self mutilation.
During her four year long seperation from Charles, she participated in major national occasions as a senior member of the Royal Family, notably including "the commemorations of the 50th anniversaries of Victory in Europe Day and Victory over Japan Day" in 1995.
, Diana retained the double apartment on the north side of Kensington Palace that she had shared with the Prince of Wales since the first year of their marriage.
She continued to have access to the jewelry that she had received during her marriage, and was allowed to use the air transport of the British royal family and government.
Diana received a lump sum settlement of $22,375,060 and $526,554 per year.
The couple also signed a confidentiality agreement.
Diana lost the style "Her Royal Highness".
So she was styled Diana, Princess of Wales.
She was still to be regarded as a member of the royal family and was accorded the same precedence she enjoyed during her marriage.
The day after her divorce, she announced her resignation from over 100 charities and retained patronages of only six: Centrepoint, English National Ballet, Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Leprosy Mission, National AIDS Trust, and the Royal Marsden Hospital.
She alsocontinued her work with the British Red Cross Anti-Personnel Land Mines Campaign, but was no longer listed as patron.
Khan was a very private person, and the relationship was conducted in secrecy, with Diana lying to members of the press who questioned her about it.
Their relationship lasted almost two years.
Burrell also claimed that Diana's mother, disapproved of her daughter's relationship with a Muslim man.
Despite criticism and her being accused of meddling in politics and being called a loose cannon, HALO states that Diana's efforts resulted in raising international awareness about landmines and the subsequent sufferings caused by them.
She gave a speech at a landmines conference held at the Royal Geographical Society, and traveled to Washington, D.C. to help promote the American Red Cross landmines campaign, in June 1997.
Her dresses and suits were sold at Christie's auction houses, in June 1997, in London and New York, and the proceeds that were earned from these events were donated to charities.
She accepted Fayed's invitation to join his family in the south of France, where his compound and large security detail would not cause concern to the Royal Protection squad. Mohamed Al-Fayed bought the Jonikal, a 60-metre multimillion-pound yacht on which to entertain Diana and her sons.
Diana and her mom were reportedly not on speaking terms with each other by the time of Diana's death.
Diana's relationship with her estranged stepmother reportedly improved in the years before her death.
The Tate Gallery shared their 100th celebration with Princess Diana's 36 birthday celebration.
August 7th to the 10th in 1997, she visited Bosnia and Herzegovina with Jerry White and Ken Rutherford of the Landmine Survivors Network.
Her work on the landmines issue has been described as influential in the signing of the Ottawa Treaty.
Her bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, survived the crash.
Her sudden and unexpected death brought statements from senior figures worldwide and many tributes by members of the public.
Her coffin was taken to a private mortuary and then placed in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace.
Around the world millions more tuned in.
Diana's funeral took place in Westminster Abbey.
Her sons walked in the funeral procession behind her coffin, along with her ex-husband, and Diana's brother Lord Spencer, and representatives of some of her charities.
The global proceeds from the single released in 1997. have gone to Diana's charities.
Her private burial took place later that day.
Her former husband, sons, mother, siblings, a close friend, and a clergyman were present.
Diana's body was in a dress she had chosen weeks before.
It was a black long-sleeved dress designed by Catherine Walker.
There was a set of Roseary beads placed in her hands, from Mother Teresa.
Diana was the Regiment's Colonel-in-Chief from 1992 to 1996.
Permanent memorials for Diana include
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Gardens in Regent Centre Gardens Kirkintilloch.
The Diana Memorial Award, established in 1999 and later relaunched in 2007 by Gordon Brown.
It is placed in the garden of Schloss Cobenzl in Vienna. It was raised by reporter Ewald Wurzinger.
The text on souvenir sheets issued in England reads "DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES The Princess that captured people's hearts (1961–1997)".
She was noted for her compassion, style, charisma, and high-profile charity work.
Her former private secretary described her as an organised and hardworking person.
Diana was often noted for her shy nature, as well as her shrewdness, funny character, and smartness.
Those close to her, described her as being led by her heart.
The Princess was also said to have a strong character.
"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity. All over the world, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcended nationality. Someone with a natural nobility who was classless and who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic."
Introducing 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 Honorable 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."
After Diana's death in 1997, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Some of the artworks after have referenced the conspiracy theories, as well as paying tribute to Diana's compassion and acknowledging her perceived victim hood.
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 Blue Gallery, London.
A few months before Diana's death, they were planning the combination of the two charities.
Mandela remarked about Diana, "When she stroked the limbs of someone with leprosy or sat on the bed of a man with HIV/AIDS and held his hand, she transformed public attitudes and improved the life chances of such people."
Mandela said "Diana had used her celebrity status to "fight stigma attached to people living with HIV/AIDS".
In a book published in 2003, Paul Burrell claimed that despite her request, the Princess's private letters had revealed that her brother, Lord Spencer, had refused to allow her to live at Althorp.
MartÃn Sastre premiered during the Venice Biennale the film Diana: The Rose Conspiracy in 2005.
In 2009, a panel chose Diana's portrait to be shown in the Gay Icons exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
OCAD University in Toronto announced in February 2013, that its new 25,000 square foot arts center would be named the Princess of Wales Visual Arts Center.
Princess Diana Drive was named in her memory in Trenton, New Jersey.
Diana's sons commissioned a statue of their mother for Kensington Palace to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death, in January 2017.
In an official statement released by Kensington Palace, William and Harry said "Our mother touched so many lives. We hope the statue will help all those who visit Kensington Palace to reflect on her life and her legacy."
In December 2017, it was announced that Ian Rank-Broadley had been commissioned to execute the statue. and its completion is expected in 2019.
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