The Honorable Diana Frances Spencer was born on 1 July , the youngest daughter of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp &#; later Earl Spencer, and Frances Roche. She was born at Park House, near Sandringham, Norfolk and was styled Lady Diana Spencer after her father inherited the Spencer Earldom in
It is well documented that she came from a broken home. Her parents divorced, and when she was seven-years-old her father gained custody of the children, a rarity at the time.
She married Charles, Prince of Wales on 29 July , at St Paul&#;s Cathedral, London. She was the first Englishwoman to marry the Prince of Wales for years. On her marriage, she became the third highest ranking female in the United Kingdom Order of Precedence after the Queen and the Queen Mother. Their sons William and Harry were born in and respectively. Diana was godmother to seventeen children.
Diana and Charles separated in December and divorced in August after her infamous television interview the previous year, in which she described the unhappiness within her marriage.
Diana died on 31 August after a devastating car crash in Paris and was buried at Althorp, the Spencer family&#;s Northamptonshire estat
- Diana Frances Spencer was born at Park House, Sandringham in Norfolk, England on 1 July
- In , she inherited the title ‘Lady Diana Spencer’ after her father became Earl Spencer. She held this title until her marriage in
Parents
- John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Frances Spencer, Viscountess Althorp.
- After her parent&#;s divorce, she was brought up by her father, Earl Spencer.
- Her distant ancestors include Mary, Queen of Scots, Lady Catherine Grey, Mary Boleyn, and Robert I (The Bruce).
- She once said to the Duke of Edinburgh that the Spencer family she was born into was older and more aristocratic than the House of Windsor.
Religion: Church of England
Education
- Silfield School Kings Lynn, Norfolk
- Riddlesworth Hall in Norfolk
- West Heath Girls&#; School in Sevenoaks, Kent.
- She had a talent for music and was an accomplished pianist.
- She was not academically talented. She left school without any O levels, despite trying twice.
- More on Princess Diana&#;s Childhood
Marriage
- Engaged on February 24, , to Prince Charles &#; next in line to the throne.
- Engagement ring consisted of 14 diamonds and a sapphire.
- Charles and Diana were married
Diana Frances (Spencer) Mountbatten-Windsor ( - )
Biography
Diana (Spencer) Mountbatten-Windsor is a member of the House of Windsor.
Diana (Spencer) Mountbatten-Windsor is Notable.
Diana, Princess of Wales, was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. She was born on 1 July , in Sandringham, Norfolk, the daughter of Edward, 8th Earl Spencer and Hon Frances Roche.
Pedigree:
The ancestry of Diana's father Edward, 8th Earl Spencer, included English and Irish lines. Edward traced his ancestry to Charles II (via his son Henry Fitzroy, b) and also Charles' younger brother James II (via his daughter Henrietta FitzJames, b).
On the maternal side, Diana had a more varied ancestry. Her maternal grandmother Ruth Sylvia Gill, a trusted staff member of the British royal family for decades, was almost entirely Scottish going back many centuries. Diana's maternal grandfather, the Harvard-educated Edmond Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, descended paternally from the Roche family of County Cork, Ireland, while his mother, Frances Eleanor Work (Diana's great-grandmother) was born and died in New York, of a family which had, for the most part, been present in N
Diana (–)
Princess of Wales who was a beloved international celebrity and one of the world's most charitable benefactors. Name variations: Lady Diana Spencer. Born Diana Frances Spencer on July 1, , at Park House, the family's country home on the grounds of the royal estate at Sandringham in Norfolk, England; died, age 36, in Paris, France, in an automobile accident on August 31, ; interred at Althorp, Northamptonshire, on September 6, ; third of four children of Edward John VIII Spencer (b. ), viscount Althorp, and Frances Burke Ruth Roche (Fermoy) Spencer, viscountess Althorp, later known as Frances Shand Kydd; married Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor (b. ), prince of Wales, July 29, ; children: William Arthur (b. ); Henry Charles (b. ).
After completing education in private schools, took a job as an assistant in a London kindergarten; married Charles, prince of Wales, royal family's oldest son (July 29, ), followed by the birth of two royal sons, Princes William and Harry, during the next decade; heard divorce announced in House of Commons (August ); began dating film producer and financier Dodi al-Fayed; was with al-Fayed in Paris at the time of the car crash tha
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