The arrival of the princess
On the evening of July 1, 1961, in Norfolk, England, the youngest daughter of the eighth Earl of Edward Spencer fell to the ground, and the 7-pound, 12-ounce little girl was named Diana Spencer (July 1, 1961 – August 31, 1997).
Although Diana was the youngest daughter of the Count, she did not receive much love from her father, because her father preferred sons to daughters, he was bent on a boy to inherit the ancestral property, and the famous and prominent people lacked fatherly love from an early age. And even this home, which had rarely given Diana love and warmth, was completely broken at the age of 6, and the marriage of her parents came to an end due to her mother's infidelity. In April 1969, her parents formally divorced and her mother lost custody of Diana and her brother. Then her father married her stepmother, and little Diana's childhood was spent in distress and depression.
Divorce was rare in the era at that time, and naturally they were treated differently. Diana and her brother were the only students in the school whose parents divorced, which also caused the sisters and brothers to suffer too much pain that they should not have suffered at a young age.
Every weekend, Diana and her brother were allowed to go to London to spend time with their mother. Accompanied by a nanny, they depart from Norfolk by train, and the mother will be waiting for them at Liverpool Street Station. The brief reunion is followed by the torment of bitter separation. At the age of 9, her father sent Diana to a boarding school, and her father's move made her feel completely abandoned, which had a major impact on her later growth.
Diana lived in a park house surrounded by trees when she was a child, and in her eyes it was a comfortable and warm home. Diana's bedroom was on the first floor, looking out from the cream-colored window, the open wilderness was embedded in a puzzle of sparsely wooded grasslands, dotted with pines, birches, and yew trees, calves grazing, rabbits and foxes scurrying around, and the scent of norfolk coast, 6 miles away.
The neighbors of the park house are all royal relatives and friends, which naturally constitute a social circle of door to door. Spencer's usual movement between the house and the royal family was not frequent, and little Diana even felt that the queen's private residence, Sang Junhan, had a strange atmosphere, which she really did not like.
Acquaintance with the prince
Diana and Prince Charles met at a family party in 1977, when Charles was dating Diana's sister, and spencer's family hosted a grand ball to welcome the prince. In the shadow of the gentleman and lady's clothes, Diana, who has not yet faded the baby fat, wears a plaid shirt, corduroy pants, foot Wellington boots, wearing her sister's fur coat, slightly fat, no fat powder, and her speech and demeanor are also a clumsy appearance. But Prince Charles felt that "this 16-year-old girl is lively and interesting, strange and cute." Diana was then invited to attend a party at Buckingham Palace in November 1978 for Prince Charles's 30th birthday.
Diana and Prince Charles are getting closer. They began dating, chatting happily, and even kissing each other passionately on the beautiful lakeside. The kind and pure Diana fell in love with the prince.
On February 6, 1981, Charles Jo diana, returning from a ski holiday in Switzerland, met at Windsor Castle. The prince told Diana that he missed her very much and proposed to her outright. The age difference is 12 years! After meeting only 13 times, Diana accepted Prince Charles's marriage proposal.
Diana has very good expectations and fantasies about the upcoming marriage, she is passionately in love with Charles, she has never received love from her family since childhood, she is extremely eager to get Charles's warmth, she imagines her marriage as a beautiful fairy tale.
On February 23, 1981, the night before the engagement was officially announced, Diana packed her bags and said goodbye to her family. A heavily armed Scotland Yard sheriff escorted her into the palace. The sheriff looked at Diana, who was less than 20 years old, with her childlike innocent face, and couldn't help but say, "You know, this is the last night of your life' freedom, enjoy it." Diana heard this, and at this moment, she truly realized that she was about to say goodbye to a carefree and comfortable life, but to live a palace life that obeyed the rules and precepts at any time, like walking on thin ice.
On 29 July 1981, the wedding of the century, which had been in preparation for six months, opened at 9 o'clock on the same day with the bells of all the churches in the city of London. Brightly dressed Royal Cavalry honor guards escorted the royal family's wedding convoy to the church, along the way millions of people cheering for the happiness of the British Empire, holding fragrant flowers, holding pictures of Diana and Charles, and chanting good wishes, everyone was as jubilant and joyful as Christmas. The BBC broadcast the wedding in 33 languages, and more than 700 million viewers around the world were immersed in the fairytale love of prince and princess.
The Royal Family leaves Buckingham Palace at 10:00am, with Prince Charles's massive procession of horse convoys at the end. When they arrived at St. Paul's Cathedral, Prince Charles was dressed in the pretty uniform of a naval commander, with a blue decorative shoulder strap that crossed his chest. Flanked by Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, the neat Admiralty Fleet Commander walked in front of Prince Charles.
Diana wears a sparkling diamond crown and an 8-meter-long white wedding dress (due to the heavy diamond crown, Diana had a headache on the wedding day, but she still maintained a bright smile.) And her father, El Spencer, came to the cathedral in a "glass" carriage that George V used at his coronation in 1910, amid the warm blessings of the people.
After taking the pre-wedding oath, the prince and the princess walked down the corridor covered with a red carpet together. Before returning to the palace in an open-top carriage, they stood together on the steps of the church and waved to the crowd. The newlyweds then made their traditional appearance on buckingham Palace's balcony, surprised hundreds of millions of viewers with their unprecedented, lingering royal kiss before embarking on their honeymoon in a split-top convertible carriage.
After the wedding, Charles took a full set of fishing tools and half a dozen philosophy books and boarded the royal yacht Britannia with Diana to begin a three-week honeymoon in the Mediterranean.
The beginning of misfortune
In fact, as early as the day of the engagement, a reporter asked Charles and Diana, "Do you love each other", Diana replied with a happy face: "Of course, of course, we love each other", but did not think that Charles looked back at her, and then said: "It depends on how love is defined", this unexpected answer shocked Diana, and even in the days that followed, Diana said that "he hurt me fiercely that day".
The happy life of the prince and the princess after marriage is just the plot of a fairy tale.
Because the woman charles had always loved in his heart was an old woman, Camilla. He never loved Diana. Charles has been in a dating relationship with Camilla. Even sometimes Camilla's husband was still at home, and Charles went to meet Camilla.
Princess Diana tried to save her marriage. She approached Camilla, hoping that Camilla would leave Charles, but persuasion was ineffective; she had also questioned Charles, but the reply was that her husband did not want to be a prince without a mistress, which made the princess feel deeply hurt. Later, she also asked Queen Elizabeth for help, and the queen only said lightly that Charles was no longer saved; in the end, frustrated, she asked her father-in-law, Prince Philip, for help, but it was also fruitless.
Later, because of the birth of Prince William, the relationship between Prince Charles and Princess Diana warmed up a lot, so that they had a common topic of children, and their vision and hope for the future also intersected. But the good times were short-lived, and in Prince Charles's heart, Camilla was still the person who understood him best in the world.
Orphaned and helpless, Diana was so disappointed in the marriage that she could not squeeze a third person out of her marriage, so she chose to go her own way.
In February 1992, Charles and Diana traveled to India together. It is Valentine's Day, and it is customary for the prince and princess to offer Valentine's Day kisses as a sign of affection. But when Prince Charles put his mouth on Princess Dai's face, Princess Dai turned her neck, and the prince's kiss was ruthlessly rejected by his wife!
On December 9 of the same year, British Prime Minister Major announced on behalf of the royal family that the marriage between Princess Dai and Prince Charles was indeed in crisis, and the two officially separated!
In 1996, under the order of the Queen, Princess Dai and Prince Charles divorced, and on August 28, Buckingham Palace announced that the divorce application of Crown Prince Charles and Crown Princess Diana officially entered into force at 10:27 a.m. However, Concubine Dai could still retain the title of "His Highness".
Enthusiastic about charity
Diana, who ended her marriage, became more and more determined and acted more and more independently. Put more energy into philanthropy. In July 1991, Diana visited AIDS patients in a hospital with barbara Bush, the wife of the President of the United States at the time, and Diana chatted with a patient who was dying of illness, and gave the patient a warm hug, seeing the Princess of Wales hugging herself with open and slender arms. The patient was immediately deeply touched by Princess Diana's love. Mrs. Bush also wept with emotion.
Diana has also made several trips to North Africa, visiting charitable hospitals, schools, charities, and fundraising events, which have improved the lives of many of the people she visited. Her overseas visits also include Angola, Australia, Bosnia, Egypt, India, Pakistan and many European countries. Princess Diana has spoken on a number of issues and used her popularity to promote and fundraise for charitable organizations. She was a true humanitarian, practicing and being respected.
Before her death, Princess Dai was the honorary head of the six legions. The last cause dai participated in during her lifetime was not in line with military status: advocating the abolition of mines. Her most outstanding contribution to public welfare was to advocate for the global anti-mine movement, and she personally went to Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other war-torn areas many times before her death, and personally stepped into the minefields to inspect. Visit local civilians maimed by mines. It is precisely because of her influence that these vulnerable groups that have not been paid attention in the past have entered people's field of vision. With her support, the International Anti-Landmine Movement, an obscure unofficial organization that rose to prominence after Princess Dai supported the Ban on Mines, was joined by more than 60 countries and thousands of groups. By the beginning of this century, more than 135 countries around the world had signed the Mine Ban Treaty. Dai Fei initiated the righteous deeds, and the contribution was indispensable.
Endless nostalgia
On August 31, 1997, Diana was in a car accident in Paris, and her life was forever at the age of 36. After the funeral was held, it is said that 2.5 billion people around the world watched the live broadcast of the funeral.
The monarchy when Diana married into the British royal family has already existed in name only, only a trace of afterglow has not yet dissipated, and the British royal family still clings to the last stubbornness in the etiquette, but Diana's existence, her words and deeds, are like a new wind blowing into the castle, blowing away the dullness and sweeping away the dead leaves. Although Diana's confrontation with the royal family ended with the dissolution of her marriage, the shock she brought to the royal family was enough to shake the foundation of the entire royal family's existence, and the British royal family, which was supported only by the remaining historical traditions and popular feelings, had to lower its posture and learn diana to take the pro-people route, the royal family's expenses shrank again and again, the number of members decreased again and again, and even accepted the commoner Kate as a princess for the first time. After Diana, the royal nobility did not dare to stay away from the people from high, and simplicity and closeness to the people became an obligation that the royal family did not dare and could not escape.
In 2019, the British "Daily Mail" reported that Paris will be named after Princess Diana as a small square, which has been approved by Parisian officials and will be approved at the municipal meeting on June 11.
Although Diana died young, she lived to be the elegance of her own landscape, and her legend spread to every mountain and every inch of England.