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In 1968, after the divorce of the Spencer couple, little Diana was placed in paternal
custody, and that same year she entered the school of King's Lynn. In 1970 she moved
to Riddlesworth Hall Girls' Boarding School, and in 1973 she entered West Heath,
another boarding school in Kent County. Between 1977 and 1978 he studied in
Switzerland and finally settled in London.
There he worked for several companies until in November 1977 he met Prince Charles,
eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II of England and heir to the British throne, whom he
romantically joined two years later.
On 24 February 1981 the spokesman for Buckingham Palace announced the official engagement of Lady Diana
Spencer and Prince Charles; from that moment Diana moved her home to Clarence House, the residence of the
Queen Mother.
The couple's wedding, which took place on 29 July 1981 in The London Cathedral of St Paul's and was officiated by
the Archbishop of Canterbury, became an event of wide international repercussion, broadcast on television to seven
hundred million viewers; in London he summoned more than a million people, and the main members of the
European aristocracy and one hundred and seventy heads of state did not miss the ceremony.
That same year Diana of Wales made her first official solo trip
to attend the funeral of former actress and Princess of Monaco
Grace Kelly. In April of the following year, Diana accompanied
Prince Charles to Australia and New Zealand on what was the first official voyage of the consorts. The second son
of the Princes of Wales, Henry, was born on 15 September 1984.
Although Diana tried to lead a family life dedicated to the care of her children, her agenda imposed the limitation of
the more than five hundred official commitments that the couple was obliged to attend annually. Until 1985, the
Princes of Wales showed no disagreements in public, but from 1986 the British tabloid press began to report signs of
marital crisis.
Although the family tried to offer an image of unity, the truth is that Diana's solo trips became more and more
frequent, and in May 1992, after returning from India and Egypt, the first rumors of separation jumped to public
opinion.
In the years following the separation, Diana lent her public image to different humanitarian organizations and
appeared in many events in favor of the most marginalized sectors of society. Meanwhile, the tabloid press had
exploited every imaginable facet of his private life.
Diana herself came to recognize her adultery and the list, real or invented, of Lady Di's lovers grew: James Gilbey
was joined by the names of Barry Mannakke, Philip Dunne, Oliver Hoare and James Hewitt.
The last man Diana was associated with was Egyptian-born millionaire Dodi Al-Fayed. On the night of August 30-
31, 1997, both lost their lives in a huge car accident, when they tried to avoid the paparazzi and were traveling at
high speed through the tunnel of the Alma bridge in Paris.
Al-Fayed died on the spot; Diana Spencer was taken to the Hospital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, where she died a few
hours later. The British royal house, which at first showed not a few reluctances, agreed to the popular claim and
held in his honor a superb funeral in Westminster, which was broadcast live on television and attended by about two
million people.
Diana Spencer's life, both during her marriage and after her separation, was a recurring theme of the pink press and
tabloid tabloids and a continuous object of attention not only among British subjects; the so-called 'dianamania', in
effect, spread beyond the borders of the United Kingdom.
All of her public appearances received special treatment from the international media, and even her hairstyle and
dress were imitated ad nauseam. According to Majesty magazine, Lady Di generated about fifteen million pounds in
advertising to the manufacturers of the items she used.
Her popularity ended up being inversely proportional to that of her husband; she was always considered an
exemplary mother, and after her death there were even proposals for canonization that were eventually rejected.
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