Princess Diana

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One year ago, the death of a princess brought an entire world to tears. The wounds are slowly healing and the grief is less painful. What remains are the lessons that can be learned from a phenomenon that few can entirely forget. At the time it was a mystery. A divorced member of the royal family of a medium-sized European nation dies in a banal car accident in Paris, and for a week the sun, moon and stars are knocked off their appointed tracks. Within days, Europe suffers a shortage of cut flowers as tens of thousands of bouquets are laid before the house of the victim. Demand for newsprint soars; the funeral, watched live on television throughout the world, attracts an audience of 1 billion.

A few years later, the mystery remains. What was the Diana phenomenon all about? Diana’s former husband, Prince Charles, is more popular than he has been for years. The French authorities are still looking for the white Fiat Uno. Real news – terrorism, Russia, Bill Clinton’s sex life, two pregnant Spice Girls, all this knocks the event from the front pages. And we wonder: those flowers, that grief, ‘The People’s Princess.’ Why did Diana move us so?

“I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I’m very happy to do that and I want to do that,” says Diana (2, page 96). Princess Diana in a changing world like ours today there is many uncertainties. There is one thing we are sure about, that's our own pass. When you look back at your life are you going to see yourself as a leader or a follower? There is one woman from the last century, one that sticks out, to have been a leader for us. We need more women like Princess Diana to step up and become leaders in this changing world. Diana was associated with over 150 charities, and was president or patron of more than 90. Hospital patients sometimes awoke in the small hours to find the ‘Queen of Hearts,’ in jeans and baseball cap, at their bedside to comfort the sick and the dying. Some of Diana’s charities included the Leprosy Mission, she made substantial personal donations as wells as raising its profile. “A fund-raising meal at Kensington Palace brought in £100,000. There was her beloved English National Ballet, for when a...

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...at is shocking.’ Sometimes, Diana admitted, the scenes she saw were horrifying. ‘But over the years I’ve learned to cope with it, because each person is an individual. Each person needs a bit of love. You don’t think about yourself. You always take it home with you. I have lasting impressions of people struggling and they are very touching.’

Especially she remembered a little girl she had met in hospital: ‘She had her intestines blown out. She’s very, very, poorly, and I think just looking at her and thinking what was going on inside her head and heart was very disturbing.
‘But she’s just one statistic, and there are millions of landmines lying around. Someone has got to do something.’
That someone, she had decided, was herself and, once she had committed herself to the cause, The Queen of Hearts was a very determined lady.

Diana, the Princess of Wales will always be cherished for her love that she tried to shower on the needy and less fortunate people around the world. Her beliefs and causes should not be forgotten just because she is no longer with us. Instead, they should serve to remind us what caring really means, not merely spoken words but rather, actions that are felt.

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