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Princess Diana was on a yacht in the Mediterranean with her lover, Dodi Fayed, when she received the tragic news about her close friend, Gianni Versace, was murdered.
Gianni Versace was a 50 year-old fashion designer and at the top of his game when he was shot dead by serial killer Andrew Cunanan outside his Miami mansion in 1997.
On the morning after Versace's murder, Fayed’s bodyguard found Diana on the yacht’s deck gazing out to sea and then asked
“Do you think they’ll do that to me?”
Diana also thought that there was a government conspiracy to kill her.
“They will do it when I am in a small plane, in a car when I am driving, or in a helicopter,” she is said to have told a fashion designer friend.
A little less than two months after Versace's murder, Diana was killed in that infamous car crash in Paris.
Queen Elizabeth II was “so upset” over Princess Diana’s decision to move Prince William and Harry away from Balmoral, according to royal author Katie Nicholls.
In the book Katie wrote back in 2010 "William and Harry,: Behind the Palace Walls", she describes how the Prince and Princess of Wales often took William and Harry to the Queen’s estate at Balmoral, especially during the New Year’s holidays.
It was usual for all the royal family to stay in the main house at Balmoral together, however Princess Diana broke with that tradition and moved a mile away into Craigowan Lodge.
She write about Princess Diana allegedly complained secretly to Prince Charles about feeling suffocated at Balmoral and needing space.
And how the the Queen had “obliged”, “knowing it was best not to antagonize her daughter-in-law”, and offered the use of the lodge.
In the Book Katie also write about how the Queen's cousin said that the Queen was crestfallen and upset and wondered why Princess Diana wanted to moved the children when they seemed so happy at Balmoral.
Some very funny things happened after Princess Diana's death. Following the fatal crash in the road tunnel in Paris, several photographers were put in custody by police while papers were seized and offices were raided.
Allegedly, some of the media were abused in the street and they received death threats.
Media offices had their phone lines tapped.
Did you know that allegedly the United States officials spied on Princess Diana before her death.
Supposedly they have satellite images of Paris on crash night, but refuse to release them for "national security reasons".
It is claimed that they also hold top secret info on her and members of the Royal family.
Dodi's dad has made repeated attempted to have the documents made public. NSA holds 182 documents, featuring 1,056 pages, concerning Diana and the royals. Princess Diana Princess Diana Conspiracy Theories
"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am."
Here are a few things abouot Diana, Princess of Whales.
She was born Diana Spencer on July 1, 1961, Princess Diana became Lady Diana Spencer after her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer in 1975.
She married Prince Charles. the heir to the British throne, on July 29, 1981.
They had two sonsPrince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
She got divorced in 1996.
Diana died from injuries she sustained in a car crash in Paris, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, on August 31, 1997.
Her death and the death of others in the car were first blamed on the paparazzi.
The paparazzi were always all over Diana, no matter what she did.
Later, the blame was officially on the driver of the car she was in.
They said he was driving to fast and he was intoxicated.
There is many people that believe other wise.
The Events of Diana's Last Day.
Diana and Fayed arrive around 4:30 P.M., at the Ritz Paris, owned by his father, Egyptian businessman Mohamed Fayed, through the back door and occupy the Imperial Suite. Reportedly, Fayed ventures to Repossi jewelers between 5:40 and 6:30 P.M. There was footage to back that up.
Diana and Fayed exit the Ritz through around 7:30 P.M., the rear entrance and are driven to his residence, near the Arc de Triomphe. Utilizing the hotel's front entrance, at 9:50 P.M., the couple enters and heads for its L'Espadon restaurant, after forgoing reservations at Benoit Paris because of rampant paparazzi. Fayed quickly grows suspicious that photographers might be posing as restaurant patrons and requests their food be delivered to their room. August 31, 1997
With bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, Fayed and Diana reportedly attempt to evade photographers by leaving the hotel through its rear entrance to return to his apartment, at 12:20 A.M.
They had a decoy car out front, which didn't fool to many.
They enter the backseat of a black Mercedes to be driven by Ritz security employee Henri Paul. Paul had at least two alcoholic drinks that evening. The speeding car, at 12:23 A.M., in a attempt to outrun photographers , collides with a concrete pillar in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel. Investigators later estimated that the car may have been traveling in excess of 60 miles per hour. Fayed and Paul die on the scene. The first test of Paul’s blood following the crash revealed that his alcohol levels were more than three times the legal limit.
The bodyguard, Rees-Jones, survived, despite suffering significant injuries. He was the only one wearing a seat belt.
There were two different tests done on the driver's blood.
The initial test said that Paul was found to have 12.8% carbon hemoglobin saturation, a combination of blood's iron-carrying pigment and carbon monoxide.
All of that means, that is about what a smoker has in their body.
Another test, backed by the opponents of the official findings, showed Paul had 20.7% in his blood at the time of death. That means that was almost double levels of the original test.
If accurate, the rate of dispersal of carbon monoxide from the bloodstream would have meant that Paul's blood had 40% saturation a few hours earlier.
40% is lethal.
He would have hardly been able to function, if at all.
The driver also had a lot of money. He had more than $132,562,which he had amassed in 14 bank accounts. French sources have claimed that in the hours leading up to the crash, Paul received a further $265,125. If he had so much money, why was he working as a driver for a hotel? Supposedly, he wasn't even working that night, he just came in to drive the car. CCTV footage of Paul leaving the Paris Ritz with the couple does not indicate that he was intoxicated. Paul was given a clean bill of health for a pilot’s licence just 72 hours before the car crash. The news papers were saying that his blood was three times the legal limit before the tests were done.
Richard Tomlinsonattempted to assist Dodi Fayed's dad in his privately funded investigation into the death of Diana, and Dodi.
Tomlinson was a former MI6 officer who was dismissed from the intelligence services and later served five months in prison for breaching the Official Secrets Act 1989.
He claimed that MI6 had considered assassinating, the president of Serbia, by staging a car crash using a powerful strobe light to blind the driver.
He suggested that Diana and Dodi may have been killed by MI6 in the same way.
Some people did claim they saw flashing lights in the tunnel.
MI6 admitted that plans of that nature had been drafted regarding a different Eastern European official, but that the proposal had been swiftly rejected by management.
He had been reported by the BBC to have claimed that Paul was working for the security services and that one of Diana's bodyguards, either Trevor Rees-Jones (now known as Trevor Rees) or Kes Wingfield, was a contact for British intelligence.
He had suggested that MI6 was monitoring Diana before her death.
He also stated, that when he was with MI6, that some of the paparazzi that followed the royals around, worked for them when needed.
He claims that on Friday 31 July 1998, he was arrested by the DST.(French Police)
He said he recieved a broken rib and was held for 38 hours.
Even tho he was released with out being charged, his laptop and organizer were confiscated.
They illegally gave these to MI6 who took them back to the UK, and were given back after six months.
He states that on Friday 7th August 1998, he was kicked off a plane for New Zealand and had his remaining computer equipment taken then as well.
He was then invited to a live television interview on America's NBC television channel, about his evidence in Diana's case.
At the JFK airport, he was stopped and deported immediately by the CIA.
The only one to survive the crash, was the body guard.
He was the only one wearing a seat belt.
People think this is weird, because this was against procedure for the body guard to wear a seat belt.
It was said that Diana never went without a seat belt. Her seat belt in the Mercedes was found defective after being inspected.
Her body was embalmed her body immediately after she died.
This was against against French Law.
They did it without filling out all the paper work first too.
Plus, she was a technically still a royal, and they had special people that were supposed to do the embalming.
So no thorough examination was done.
Instead of having a forensics do a extensive investigation of the crime scene, the tunnel was hosed and cleaned out.
The tunnel was operational in just a few hours.
The car was dangerous even before Diana rode inside.
Two years prior, a prisoner out on remand stole the vehicle and took it on a joyride in the countryside near Paris.
The Mercedes rolled over several times during that crash.
It was later rebuilt and put back on the road. The Mercedes company offered to help investigate the car, to see if it contributed to the crash and were denied.
US intelligence agencies were bugging Diana's phone on the night she died, without the British secret service's permission.
And refused to release its files on the affair because of an "exceptionally grave" threat to the country's security.
Four nights after the crash, a photographer called Lionel Cherrault, who had been acting as an agent forwarding pictures to international media, was robbed.
The intruders left all the valuables, and took only two computer hard-disk drives and a laptop.
There was a white Fiat Uno seen leaving the tunnel at the time
Diana was in the car crash.
Some people believe that the Fiat clipped the side of the
Mercedes on purpose and caused the crash.
There was unexplained white paint was later found on the car's wreckage, and part of a bumper and tail-light were found near the scene of the crash.
French photographer, James Andason,who had been following Diana and Dodi all Summer, was known to have owned a white Fiat Uno. He was also a paid informant for both British and French intelligence, but said that he was not in Paris on the night of the accident. His charred remains were found three years later, in a locked car in remote farmland in the South of France.
There were more than 14 CCTV cameras in the tunnel where Diana was in that fatal crash.
None of them recorded the collision.
The official French judicial inquiry into the crash was collision concluded that none of the cameras were working.
Just fifteen minutes before the accident one motorist received a speeding ticket after being caught on a nearby camera.
A letter, which Princess Diana wrote,was sent to Paul Burrell, the princess's then butler, in October 1993.
This letter says :
"I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high." "This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous - my husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy. Camilla is nothing but a decoy, so we are all being used by the man in every sense of the word."
The butler said that Diana was afraid of Prince Charles.
He also stated that she was paranoid.
She made him check everywhere, constantly, for bombs and bugs.
Dodi's father thinks that his son and Diana were engaged and that Charles wanted Dodi dead.
Alberto Repossi, a Monte Carlo jeweler, had claimed that the couple had bought a $304,886 emerald and diamond engagement ring weeks before their death.
This was backed-up with CCTV footage and receipts from his Monaco showroom.
A motorist who was driving in the opposite direction at the time said that, a motorbike, directly after impact, "emerged from the smoke" coming from the crashed Mercedes.
When she divorced Charles, she was offered to keep royal security, but she turned it down.
Instead, she hired her own.
She didn't want the security reporting back to the royal family about all her activities.
On Diana's way to the hospital, the ambulance passed other hospitals on route.
The staff in the ambulance decided that none of them had the right staff or equipment needed to safe her life.
The crew was also afraid to drive fast, because of her blood pressure.
The Court Martial of SAS Sniper Danny Nightingale led to a letter he'd written.
Soldier N had boasted that the SAS were behind the death of Princess Diana.
On December 16, 2013, it emerged from Sky News reports that there was "no credible evidence" that the SAS was involved in the death of the Princess and the others, and thus no reason to re-open the investigation Why were they going through the tunnel in the first place. They were suppose to be going to Dodi's flat, but they were going the opposite way.
Supposedly no one knows who took this photo. This was moments before the crash. Prince Charles supposedly was writing Diana angry letters.
This is an interview with Diana's former driver, the one who went to get her body.
This is a documentary banned almost everywhere.
Whatever happened to her, the world is darker without her in it.
Thank you for all you did Diana.
You will surely be forever missed.
She is remembered as the "People's Princess" because of her
widespread popularity and global humanitarian efforts.
She had two children, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
Her family is of British nobility with royal ancestry and was the youngest daughter of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, and Frances Roche.
She was named after her mother and her aunt.
She grew up in Park House, situated on the Sandringham estate.
She was baptized on August 30, 1961.
She had four siblings, Sarah, Jane, Charles and John.
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.
Her mother remarried in 1969 to Peter Shand Kydd.
When she was nine, she moved to an all girls boarding school, Riddlesworth Hall School.
In 1973, she joined her sisters at West Heath Girls' School.
She didn't do that well in school.
She received an award from West Heath for her outstanding community spirit.
She was an accomplished pianist.
She excelled in swimming and diving, and studied ballet and tap dance.
Her brother Charles recalls her being shy until she left West Heath when she was 16.
In 1975 she became known as Lady Diana Spencer, when her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer.
Diana's father married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth, in 1976.
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 Charleswhen 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.
As her 19th birthday present, her mother bought her a flat at Coleherne Court in Earl's Court in 1979.
She lived there with three flatmates until February 25, 1981.
Her engagement to Prince Charles was announced in February 1981.
In March 1981, at a charity even at a charity event at Goldsmiths' Hall, Diana had her first official public appearance since her engagement.
Her wedding took place took place at St Paul's Cathedral on July 29, 1981.
Diana inadvertently reversed the order of Charles's first two names, saying "Philip Charles" Arthur George instead.
She did not say that she would "obey" him, which caused some comment at the time.
Her wedding dress cost around $12,000.
Her dress had a 25 foot train.
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.
It was the most watched televised event at the time,
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.
The Queen extended Diana visible tokens of membership in the Royal Family.
The first biopics about Diana and Charles were Charles and Diana: A Royal Love Story and The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana.
Diana undertook royal duties on behalf of the Queen and represented her at functions overseas.
The prince and princess visited Whales in October 1981.
On November, 4 1981, Diana, for the first time, attended the State Opening of Parliament.
Her first solo engagement, was to flip the switch for the Christmas lights at Regent Street on Novermber 18, 1981.
The marriage produced two sons, the princes William and Harry.
Diana's first pregnancy was was officially announced on November 5,1981.
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.
Pictures of a pregnant Diana in bikini while holidaying was published in the media in February 1982.
The Queen release a statement saying that it was "the blackest day in the history of British journalism."
Prince William was born on June 21, 1982.
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.
Her second son, Prince Harry, was born on September 15, 1984.
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.
While there, they met with President Alessandro Pertini.
They also had a private audience with Pope John Paul II.
The couple traveled to the United States in November 1985.
There they met President Ronald Regan and the First Lady Nancy.
In 1986, Diana and Charles went on a tour of Japan, Indonesia, Spain, and Canada.
While in Canada they visited Expo 86, where Diana fainted in the California Pavilion.
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.
Even though at the time, it was not known exactly all the ways the disease could spread, Diana was not averse to making physical contact with AIDS patients.
Diana spent a few days in New York as a solo visit in February 1989.
She made a profound impact on the public by spontaneously hugging a seven-year-old child with AIDS, during a tour of Harlem Hospital Center.
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.
From 1984 to 1996, she was president of Barnardo's.
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.
Following a visit to a leprosy hospital in Indonesia, in November 1989, she became patron of the Leprosy Mission.
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.
They visited Hungary for four days on in May 1990.
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.
Diana opened Grandma's House, in October 1990, in Washington D.C.
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.
Diana was the patron of HALO Trust.
She was a patron of the National AIDS Trust.
The royal couple went to Japan to and attended the enthronement of Emperor Akihito in November 1990.
In December 1990, the Princess of Whales traveled to Germany to meet with family of soldiers of the Gulf War.
In January 1991, she traveled to Germany again to visit RAF Bruggen, and later wrote an encouraging letter which was published in Soldier, Navy News and RAF News.
In 1991, the Prince and Princess of Whales presented the Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario with a replica of their royal charter.
In September 1991, the Princess visited Pakistan on a solo trip.
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.
While in India she visited Mother Teresa's hospice in Kolkata.
Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, developed a personal relationship.
They also met again later that year.
During that tour, pictures of an alone Diana in front of Taj Mahal made headlines.
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."
Diana became a patron and a life long supporter in 1992 of Centrepoint.
She use to take young William and Harry for private visits to Centrepoint services and homeless shelters.
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.
As the patron of Turning Point, Diana visited its project in London for people with HIV/AIDS in 1992.
She established and led fundraising campaigns for AIDS research.
In December 1992, ABC aired Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After.
Diana opened the Wolfson Children's Cancer Unit on February 25,1993.
She announced in December 1993, that she was going to take a break from the public life.
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.
In 1994, she helped her friend Julia Samuel launch the charity Child Bereavement UK and become it's patron.
Prince William later replaced his mother as the charity's royal patron.
In February 1995, the Princess visited Japan, where paid a formal visit to Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.
She also visted the National Children's Hospital in Tokyo.
Diana went to the Venice Biennale art festival, and also visited Moscow where she received the International Leonardo Prize, in June 1995.
The Princess undertook a four-day trip to Argentina in order to attend a charity event. in November 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.
Charles resumed his relationship with his former girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles, and Diana later began one with Major James Hewitt.
With the publication in May 1992, of Andrew Morton's book, Diana: Her True Story, these affairs were exposed.
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.
Prime Minister John Major announced the couple's "amicable separation" to the House of Commons in December 1992,
Between 1992 and 1993, Diana hired voice coach to help her develop her public speaking voice.
Diana began to believe that her husband had also been involved in other affairs than Camilla.
The Princess wrote to her butler Paul Burrell in October 1993, telling him that she believed her husband was now in love with his personal assistant Tiggy Legge-Bourke.
And was planning to have her killed "to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy".
In an interview in June 29,1994., Charles said that he had rekindled his relationship with Camilla in 1986 only after his marriage to the Princess had "irretrievably broken down".
In an interview broadcast for the BBC current affairs show Panorama in 1995, Diana discussed her and her husband's extramarital affairs.
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.
In December 1995, Diana received the United Cerebral Palsy Humanitarian of the Year Award in New York City for her philanthropic efforts.
In February 1996, the Princess traveled to Pakistan to visit its children's cancer wards and attend a fundraising dinner in aid of the charity in Lahore.
She traveled to Chicago in June 1996, as president of the Royal Marsden Hospital in order to attend a fundraising event and raised more than $48,938 for cancer research.
Diana divorced Charles on August 28, 1996.
, 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 Princess was awarded a gold medal at a health care conference organised by the Pio Manzù Centre in Rimini, Italy.
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.
The Princess went to Washington in September 1996 and appeared at a White House breakfast in respect of the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research.
Diana dated the British-Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, who was called "the love of her life" by many of her closest friends , and she is said to have described him as "Mr Wonderful".
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.
In January 1997, pictures of Diana touring an Angolan minefield in a ballistic helmet and flak jacket were seen worldwide.
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.
Diana visited South Africa, where she met with President Nelson Mandela in March 1997.
In May 1997, the Princess opened the Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts in Leicester.
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.
Within a month, Diana began a relationship with Dodi Fayed.
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's final official engagement on July 21, 1997, was a visit to Northwick Park Hospital, London.
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.
It would be Diana's final birthday.
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.
She passed away after a car crash in a Paris tunnel on 31 August 1997.
The accident also resulted in the deaths of her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver, Henri Paul.
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.
The public offerings of flowers, candles, cards, and personal messages outside Kensington Palace for many months were astounding.
On August 31, 1997, her coffin, draped with the royal flag, was brought to London from Paris by Prince Charles and Diana's two sisters.
Her coffin was taken to a private mortuary and then placed in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace.
Queen Elizabeth II paid tribute to her in a live television broadcast on September 5.
On 6 September, her televised, funeral was watched by a British television audience that peaked at 32.10 million, which was one of the United Kingdom's highest viewing figures ever.
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.
Re-written in tribute to Diana, "Candle in the Wind" was performed by Elton John at the funeral service.
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.
Mother Teresa died the same week.
Diana's grave is on an island within the grounds of Althorp Park.
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, were given the honor of carrying the Princess across to the island and laying her to rest.
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.
TheDiana, Princess of Wales Memorial FountaininHyde Park, London, opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
TheDiana, Princess of Wales Memorial PlaygroundinKensington Gardens, London.
TheDiana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk, between Kensington Gardens,Green Park, Hyde Park, andSt. James's Park, London.
TheDiana Memorial Award, established in 1999 and later relaunched in 2007 byGordon Brown.
ThePrincess Diana MemorialAustria is the first memorial dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales, in a German-speaking country.
It is placed in the garden of Schloss Cobenzl in Vienna. It was raised by reporterEwald Wurzinger.
The Flame of Liberty was erected in 1989 on the Place de l'Alma in Paris above the entrance to the tunnel, has become an unofficial memorial to Diana.
In addition, there are two memorials inside Harrods department store, commissioned by Dodi Fayed's father.
The first memorial is a pyramid-shaped display containing photos of the princess and al-Fayed's son, a wine glass said to be from their last dinner, and a ring purchased by Dodi.
The second, Innocent Victims, unveiled in 2005, is a bronze statue of Fayed dancing with Diana on a beach beneath the wings of an albatross.
She recieved Rosa 'Princess of Wales', a white blend rose cultivar, i named in her honor, as a tribute for her 10-year cooperation with the British Lung Foundation.
Azermarka issued postage stamps commemorating Diana in Azerbaijan, in 1998.
The text on souvenir sheets issued in England reads "DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES The Princess that captured people's hearts (1961–1997)".
Diana remains one of the most popular, and continues to influence the principles of the Royal Family and its younger generations.
She was a major presence on the world stage.
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.
Her bulter, Paul Burrell,remembered her as a "deep thinker" capable of "introspective analysis".
She was often described as a devoted mother to her children.
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 had become what Prime Minister Tony Blair called the "People's Princess".
Her brother, the Earl Spencer said,
"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."
In 1997, the Princess was one of the runners-up for Time magazine's person of the Year.
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.
Diana has been depicted in contemporary art, after her death.
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.
In November 1999, The Diana Princess of Wales Health Education and Media Center in Noida, India, was opened in her honor.
A $5,243 bronze plaque was unveiled by Earl Spencer at Northampton Guildhall as a memorial to his sister, in November 2002.
Mandela announced on November 2, 2002, that the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund would be teaming up with the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund to help victims of AIDS.
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.
Stella Vine created a series of Diana paintings for her first major solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxfordgallery, in 2007.
A docudrama, in 2007Diana: Last Days of a Princess details the final two months of her life.
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 granddaughter, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana , and her niece, Charlotte Diana ,are named after her.
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.
In October 2017, Prince Harry accepted the Legacy award, on behalf of his mother, for her HIV/AIDS work.
Prince William and Prince Harry commissioned two documentaries, in 2017,to mark the 20th anniversary of her death.
