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  Diana, Princess of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diana was educated at Riddlesworth Hall in Norfolk and at West Heath Girls' School (later reorganized as the New School at West Heath, a special school for boys and girls) in Sevenoaks, Kent, where she was regarded as an academically below-average student, having failed all of her O-level examinations.
Diana's death was greeted with extraordinary public grief, and her funeral at Westminster Abbey on 6 September drew an estimated 3 million [8] mourners in London, as well as worldwide television coverage.
Diana, Princess of Wales is buried at Althorp in Northamptonshire on an island in the middle of a lake called the Round Oval.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales   (4268 words)

  
 Diana Spencer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lady Diana Spencer is a name shared by several members of the Spencer family, an aristocratic English family related to the Churchills of Blenheim Palace.
The most notable of her predecessors was Lady Diana Spencer (1710-1735), who, by coincidence was sought in marriage by an earlier Prince of Wales, Frederick.
However, the idea of such a marriage was quashed by King George II, and Lady Diana married, in 1731, John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diana_Spencer   (180 words)

  
 Diana, Princess of Wales > Biography > Childhood
Diana, Princess of Wales, formerly Lady Diana Frances Spencer, was born on 1 July 1961 at Park House near Sandringham, Norfolk.
Earl Spencer was Equerry to George VI from 1950 to 1952, and to The Queen from 1952 to 1954.
Lady Diana's parents, who had married in 1954, separated in 1967 and the marriage was dissolved in 1969.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/page155.asp   (310 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - Diana, Princess of Wales - Princess Diana's life
Diana Frances Spencer was born on July 1, 1961 at Park House, the home her parents rented on the royal family's estate at Sandringham.
Diana, Princess of Wales at Kensington Palace by Mario Testino.
The Murder of a Princess by Isaac I. Omoike is an "investigational analysis" of the death of Princess Diana.
www.royalty.nu /Europe/England/Windsor/Diana.html   (2627 words)

  
 Spencer, Lady Diana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although her life was filled with adversity and tragic events, Diana Spencer always had a burden for the less fortunate, the sick, and the needy.
Diana consented in February of 1996, and broke official protocol by not informing the queen of her decision first.
Princess Diana is remembered to this day as the “queen of hearts” because of her selfless giving and stewardship to others.
www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2spencerprincessdiana.htm   (1258 words)

  
 Kindred Spirit, Diana Spencer
Diana’s powerful archetypal nature allowed humanness within the status allotted to her station in life, yet at the same time encouraged in others the inner nobility which is present in each human being.
I believe Diana was an old soul; she may well have elected to die when she did – at the height of her popularity and at a time of immense personal happi-ness – in order for her death to have the greatest impact on us.
Diana, with her Moon in Aquarius (the sign of the future), knew where the Royal Family should be heading and was desperately trying to modernise them.
www.kindredspirit.co.uk /ARTICLES/4153_diana.asp   (4017 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Diana Spencer Biography
Diana was born in 1961 into the historic Spencer family.
Diana was an enormously popular addition to the Royal Family, and became famous throughout the world.
Diana and Charles were divorced in 1996, when she relinquished her HRH title.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/324:0/Diana_Spencer.htm   (365 words)

  
 Princess Diana
Diana was the youngest daughter of Viscount Althorp who became 8th Earl of Spencer and the Hon Mrs Shand-Kydd.
Diana was only six when her parents separated: her mother, Frances left to join Peter Shand Kydd, a wealthy businessman.
Diana and her brother, Charles, spent much of their childhood moving to and fro from one parent to the other.
www.biogs.com /famous/princessdiana.html   (692 words)

  
 Princess Diana, Lady Diana Spencer, royal, Princess of wales, humanitarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Princess Diana was particularly involved with the campaign to ban the manufacture and use of landmines; she visited Angola, Bosnia, Travnic, Sarajevo and Senezica as part of this campaign.
Diana not only raised millions of pounds for these causes, she also became an iconic figure and helped to break stigma's that were in place over diseases like HIV and AIDS.
Diana achieved this by breaking all conventions and holding hands with someone infected with the disease, thus personalising her visits and showed that she truly cared about these humanitarian issues.
www.emma.tv /humanitarian/profiles/princess_diana.aspx   (517 words)

  
 Lady Diana Spencer - Princess Diana Newsreport
Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997, was known for her Aids charity work, breaking taboos through her close contact with patients.
Diana, Dodi and chauffeur Henri Paul were killed when their car crashed in a tunnel as it sped away from the Ritz hotel in the French capital.
Diana, 36, and Dodi Fayed, 42, died on the night of August 31, 1997 shortly after leaving the Ritz.
www.princess-diana.com /diana/newsreport.htm   (2564 words)

  
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Her emotional parenting style was in sharp contrast to the hands-off approach of her husband, who was often portrayed in the press as cold and relatively uninvolved in the lives of his sons and wife, preferring to spend his personal time on such favorite pursuits as hunting and polo.
Finally, Diana expressed her desire to be known as a “queen of people’s hearts,” despite her tarnished royal marriage, a goal that, judging from the show’s audience—21.1 million viewers out of a total British population of 57 million, and the largest viewing audience in the program’s history—she had already achieved.
Under the terms of an agreement reached between Diana and the royal family, Diana was barred from ever succeeding to the throne and forced to drop the prefix HRH (or Her Royal Highness) from her name, becoming known simply as Diana, Princess of Wales.
www.studentske.sk /anglictina/Lady_Diana_Spencer;_biography.htm   (1508 words)

  
 Courtly Lives - Unofficial Spencer Homepage
Diana's funeral was in Westminister Abbey on Saturday, September 7, 1997, and she was buried on an island at the Spencer Family Home (Althorp Estate in Northamptonshire, England.
Diana still receives bad press even in death, and I believe that she should finally be alllowed to rest in peace.
Diana was directly descended from the Stuart kings of England and Scotland, and could trace her ancestry all the way back to the Anglo-Saxon monarchs.
www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Spencer.html   (1558 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana wore the Spencer family tiara with her headdress and a sapphire and pearl choker which was a wedding gift from her husband-to-be.
Diana was treated at the scene of the crash and she was still alive when she was transported to a hospital in Paris.
Diana's body was buried in a private family ceremony in the grounds of her ancestral home, Althorp House.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A596027   (2599 words)

  
 Diana Spencer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Diana explained to me once that it was her innermost feelings of suffering that made it possible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected.
For all the status, the glamour, the applause, Diana remained throughout a very insecure person at heart, almost childlike in her desire to do good for others so she could release herself from deep feelings of unworthiness of which her eating disorders were merely a symptom.
The last time I saw Diana was on July 1, her birthday in London, when typically she was not taking time to celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honour at a special charity fundraising evening.
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 Diana Spencer: Obituary
This is that Diana was the most spectacular example of the 'spectacular society' since the concept was launched.
She belongs to a growing pantheon of celebrities who are not icons, as they are sometimes called because they represent only themselves, but are stars, of the sky as well as the screen, very distant but also very close.
Whatever we may feel about it, the spectacle of Diana is an essential part of the life of millions of people in capitalist societies at the end of the twentieth century.
www.spunk.org /texts/pubs/freedom/sp001744.html   (973 words)

  
 Princess Diana Biography
Princess Diana was the youngest daughter of the Rt.
August 31, 1997 Princess Diana was killed in a car accident in the Alma Tunnel, Paris, along with her romantic companion Dodi Al-Fayed and chauffer Henri Paul.
Diana was ranked third in the (2002) 100 Greatest Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public.
www.myclassiclyrics.com /artist_biographies/Princess_Diana_Biography.htm   (786 words)

  
 Diana Spencer in Kensington
Princess of Wales, formerly Lady Diana Frances Spencer, was born on 1 July 1961 at Park House near Sandringham, Norfolk.
She was the youngest daughter of the then Viscount and Viscountess Althorp, now the late (8th) Earl Spencer and the Hon.
In 1975, the family moved to the Spencer family seat at Althorp (a stately house dating from 1508) in Northamptonshire, in the English Midlands.
www.mykensington.co.uk /kensington/celebs-diana-biog.htm   (303 words)

  
 Fine Line Graphology, Examples Diana Spencer
Princess Diana had the ability to understand and to process information quickly, although she depended on experience and stored knowledge to solve problems.
Princess Diana could exhibit changeable behaviour but her responses were not always inconsistent.
Princess Diana enjoyed social contact with others near her but at times she needed to be alone and recharge her batteries.
www.finelinegraphology.com /examplediana.htm   (560 words)

  
 Princess Diana ~ Diana's Divine Destiny
November; Diana was at the Premiere of Santa Claus at the Odeon, leicester Square.
Diana also attended a lunch party at the Savoy in aid of the Rainbow House children's hospice appeal.
Diana is on a skiing holiday in Austria with Charles when she receives the news.
au.geocities.com /dianasdivinedestiny/diary.html   (5686 words)

  
 Reflections On Diana Spencer
During the long week following the accident that killed Diana Spencer, many feelings and thoughts about her, her life, and the world in which we all live have crowded into the interstices of my daily life.
Nor do I feel that Diana's death, the manner of it especially, will have a long-lasting effect on media patterns, because the forces shaping those patterns are far larger than any person, even larger than wars and natural disasters.
It was news to me that she had made a point of not wearing gloves when she held the hand of a person with AIDS, that she was leading an effort to free the world of the barbarity of land mines, that she was involved in so many charitable causes.
www.jessanderson.org /doc/diana.html   (730 words)

  
 University of Delaware Athletics and Sports Information
Diana Spencer begins her second season as an assistant coach on head coach Tina Martin's staff for the 2005-06 season.
Spencer, who earned her degree in fine arts from Colorado in January 2005, was a four-year letter winner for head coach Ceal Barry at Colorado, helping the Buffs post a four-year record of 80-46 and advance to the NCAA Tournament her final three seasons.
A native of Syracuse, NY where she was an All-State standout at Fayetteville Manlius High School, Spencer was a backup forward for Colorado and played in 65 career games.
www.udel.edu /sportsinfo/womens_basketball/staff/spencer.html   (270 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The First Lady Diana: Lady Diana Spencer 1710-1735: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Like her famous 20th-century namesake, the 18th-century Lady Diana Spencer was born into a prominent family of British aristocrats, made a brilliant marriage and died young.
Orphaned young, Diana was taken in and raised by her grandmother, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, who saw to it that she was well married at the then late age of 21 to the Duke of Bedford.
Diana herself remains an enigma: described as warm-hearted and generous by some contemporaries and vain and insincere by others, she apparently died (at 25, of tuberculosis) before developing much of a personality in her own right.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0749004916   (374 words)

  
 Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales - We Will Miss You ...
Diana Princess of Wales, Queen of the People, Queen of Rose, follows your footpath, follows your love, follows your way because here in the Earth always you will be our light.
I loved Diana, and I'm only 13..it was so sad that she had to be killed in suck a tradic way...damn paparazzi.
Princess Diana is kind and helpful but after all, she died in a tragic.
www.wulfert.com /channel/diana.html   (413 words)

  
 Polls about Princess Diana, Lady Diana Spencer
Now, for example, most Americans think the car crash that killed Princess Diana in August 1997 was probably an accident, but a quarter say it was probably planned...
A TALKING Diana doll which says "I sit here in sadness" and "I'd like to be a queen of people's hearts" has gone on sale in America.
Diana should have suspected Charles to kill her.
poll.princess-diana.com /diana-poll   (216 words)

  
 Princess Diana - Lady Diana Spencer >  NBC-Video    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Diana says Charles was 'supposed' to have been her sister Sarah's boyfriend (before Charles started dating Diana).
Moving on to her relationship with Charles, Diana recalls the now infamous moment during an interview to mark her engagement in which her husband-to-be was questioned about their romance.
Diana says: "I was brought up in the sense that, you know, when you got engaged to someone, you love them.
www.princess-diana.co.uk /diana-nbc-video.htm   (3876 words)

  
 Princess Diana 1980's Fashion History and Style Icon
Before her marriage Lady Diana Spencer dressed in the manner of the Sloane set she mixed with.
David Emanuel complained in a TV interview that the carriage was far too small for both Diana and her robustly built father along with her full skirted dress, hence the inevitable creases.
Diana in her Emanuel designed wedding dress that set a trend for the 1980s.
www.fashion-era.com /diana_80s_fashion_icon.htm   (1308 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Diana: Secrets & Lies: Books: Nicholas Davies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I find the title "Diana, Secrets and Lies" to be interesting becasue Davies seems to imply that most of the secrets and lies in the story were Diana's although he often rambles off about some other members of the royal family.
Diana herself indicated that there was no pre-marital intimacy, indeed Charles spent much of the engagement away from her plus the royal family would be afraid that servants would tell the press if anything "improper" were going on between the couple.
Diana and Charles indicated in their biographies that Harry was a planned child.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1932270213?v=glance   (1810 words)

  
 StarStruck - Prince Charles & Diana Spencer
Diana Spencer, on the other hand, craves excitement, social life and mental stimulation, and has a strong impulse to experiment with new ways of doing things.
Furthermore, Diana Spencer is very ideological and often quite attached to opinions and beliefs that, in Prince Charles' eyes, defy common sense or the natural wisdom of the body and instincts.
Diana Spencer can be intensely restless, nervous, impatient and ill at ease with a predictable, steady routine.
love.astrology.com /star/lsstar3b.html   (264 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lady Diana Spencer: Princess of Wales (British Heroes): Books: Nancy Whitelaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Whitelaw chronicles Diana's trouble conforming to her role, her attempts to cope with her husband's infidelity, and her alleged eating disorder and suicide attempts.
Although the author attempts to portray Diana's strengths and weaknesses, her tendency is to sympathize with the princess's plight.
Diana is must too beautiful, too glamorous, and too charismatic to use fl and white when the pictures used were originally in color.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1883846358?v=glance   (865 words)

  
 E! Online - E! True Hollywood Story - Greatest Ever Told - Princess Diana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Princess Diana was one of the most celebrated--and photographed--public figures of the 20th century.
At the time of her royal wedding, this shy Englishwoman seemed to be living a fairy-tale life, but the story turned tragic as she suffered through an unhappy marriage to Prince Charles, eating disorders, scandals, a very public divorce and, ultimately, her untimely death while she tried to escape pursuing paparazzi.
Her veil was held in place by the Spencer Family diamond tiara.
www.eonline.com /On/Holly/Greatest/Facts/diana.html   (317 words)

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