princess diana

Princess Diana

A. 1. Diana Francis Spencer was born July 1, 1961.

2. She was born in Norfolk, England.

3. Her parents were Lord and Lady Althorp.

4. Diana’s nationality was English.

5. She learned that she was expected to be a boy but had died 10 hours after conceived just before her (she had been a twin).

a. She would remember the churchyard grave that her brother had been buried in.

6. Diana was the third or four children.

B. 1. Princess Diana grew up at a mansion called Park House.

2. She had a relatively happy home until she was eight years old when her parents separated.

a. After her parents split up she bravely declared that she would marry only once and only for love and never ever divorce.

3. At age 12, Diana began attending the exclusive West Health School in Sevenoaks, Kent.

a. At Sevenoaks she developed at passion for ballet.

b. “She wanted to be a ballet dancer”.

4. Diana dropped out of West Health at age 16.

a. After dropping out, she attended Swiss Finishing School but was homesick and returned to Norfolk.

b. When she moved to England, she hired her self out as a cleaning woman until she found work as a kindergarten teacher’s aide.

5. Diana gave and helped needy charities.

C. 1. Diana fell in love with Prince Charles at a young age.

a. She taught him how to tap dance on the terrace.

2. Prince Charles thought that she was “ adorable… full of vitality and terribly sweet”.

a. He thought that Diana was much too young to consider as a marriage prospect, so they went their separate ways.

3. They met back up in the summer of 1980.

4. Charles proposed to Diana February 3, 1981.

5. She resigned from her job, moved in with the Queen Mother, and began to prepare becoming the wife of the future King.

6. On July 29, 1981, Diana rode in glass coach to St. Paul’s Cathedral, where the Archbishop of Canterbury and twenty-five other clerics officiated at her wedding to Prince Charles.

7. On November 5, 1981, the palace announced that the Princess of

Whales was expecting a child.

a. Diana gave birth to her son William (Wills) in June 1982.

b. A second son Harry arrived two years later in September 1984.

8. In 1992, Diana was suffering form depression, had attempted suicide five times during the early 1980’s.

a. the one incident occurred while pregnant with William and six months after the wedding.

9. On December 9, 1992, it was announced that the royal couple was