Princess Diana: About Her Life

Throughout her short life, Diana, Princess of Wales undertook many hundreds of engagements on behalf of charities and engagements.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

Even after her death, the Princess's work lives on in the form of commemorative charities and projects set up to help those in need.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

There was widespread public mourning at the death of this popular figure, culminating with her funeral at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, 6 September 1997.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

Diana, Princess of Wales died on Sunday, 31 August 1997 following a car crash in Paris.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

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Princess Diana: About Her Life

The late Diana, Princess of Wales was born Lady Diana Frances Spencer on 1 July 1961 in Norfolk. Lady Diana Spencer married The Prince of Wales at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 29 July 1981.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

The concert, held on 1 July, what would have been The Princess's 46th birthday, was held in front of a 62,000 crowd in the stadium and watched on television by millions more people around the world.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

In 2007 Prince William and Prince Harry organised Concert for Diana, a unique tribute to their mother held at Wembley Stadium.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

The Princess's last public engagements included her visit to Bosnia from 7 to 10 August, when she visited landmine projects in Travnic, Sarajevo and Zenezica.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

In January 1997, she visited Angola as part of her campaign. In June, the Princess spoke at the landmines conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London, and this was followed by a visit to Washington DC in the United States on 17/18 June to promote the American Red Cross landmines campaign (separately, she also met Mother Teresa in the Bronx, New York).
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

In the year before her death, aged 36, the Princess was an active campaigner for a ban on the manufacture and use of land mines.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

The Princess was also President of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and of the Royal Marsden Hospital.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

Following her divorce from The Prince of Wales in 1996, The Princess remained Patron of Centrepoint (homeless charity), English National Ballet, Leprosy Mission and National Aids Trust.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

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Princess Diana: About Her Life

During her marriage, The Princess was President or Patron of over 100 charities.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

On 24 February 1981 it was officially announced that Lady Diana was to marry The Prince of Wales. As neighbours at Sandringham until 1975, their families had known each other for many years, and Lady Diana and The Prince had met again when he was invited to a weekend at Althorp in November 1977.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

They were married at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 29 July 1981, in a ceremony which drew a global television and radio audience estimated at around 1,000 million people, and hundreds of thousands of people lining the route from Buckingham Palace to the Cathedral. The wedding reception was at Buckingham Palace.
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

The Princess was the first Englishwoman to marry an heir to the throne for 300 years (when Lady Anne Hyde married the future James II from whom The Princess was descended).
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

"Who's the little superstar, then?"
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Princess Diana: About Her Life

The bride wore a silk taffeta dress with a 25-foot train designed by the Emanuels, her veil was held in place by the Spencer family diamond tiara, and she carried a bouquet of gardenias, lilies-of-the-valley, white freesia, golden roses, white orchids and stephanotis. She was attended by five bridesmaids including Princess Margaret's daughter Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones (now Lady Sarah Chatto); Prince Andrew (now The Duke of York) and Prince Edward (now The Earl of Wessex) were The Prince of Wales's supporters (a Royal custom instead of a Best Man)
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