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| Diana, Princess of Wales | |
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| Born | 1 July, 1961 Sandringham, Norfolk, England |
| Died | 31 August, 1997 Paris, France
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From the time of her marriageMarriage is a relationship that plays a key role in the definition of many families. Precise definitions vary historically and between and within cultures, but it has been an important concept as a socially sanctioned bond between people who (usually) are to the Prince of Wales in 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D until her deathThis page deals with death, the cessation of life. For other meanings of death, see death (disambiguation). Death is a term that can refer to either the termination of life in a living system, or the state of that organism after that event. A common perce in a carAn automobile usually called a car (an old word for carriage) or a truck is a wheeled vehicle that carries its own engine. Older terms include horseless carriage and motor car with "motor" referring to what is now usually called the engine. The act of ope accident in Paris in 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales was one of the world's most high-profile, most photographed, and most iconic celebrities.
Diana was the youngest daughter of Edward Spencer, Viscount Althorp, and his wife Frances. Known at birth as The Honourable Diana Spencer, she was thus a descendant of King Charles I. On the death of her paternal grandfather, Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer in 1975, her father became the eighth Earl Spencer, and she acquired the courtesy title of The Lady Diana Spencer. She was educated in Norfolk and at boarding school in Kent, and was regarded as an academically below-average student. In spite of this she was an accomplished pianist, and in later life a daring and bold bridge player. At 16 she attended Institut Alpin Videmanette , a finishing school in Rougemont , Switzerland. Diana never was particularly scholarly, but she excelled in sports and longed to be a ballerina.
