MINISTERUL EDUCAIEI, CERCETRII I INOVRII

COLEGIUL NAIONAL GRIGORE MOISIL

ONETI, BACU

LUCRARE DE ATESTAT LA
LIMBA ENGLEZ

CANDIDAT: CIANGU DIANA-ANDREEA

CLASA A XII-F

COORDONATOR: Prof. GUU OANA CATINA

2013

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 COLEGIUL NAIONAL GRIGORE MOISIL

ONETI

LADY DI, THE PRINCESS OF HEARTS

CANDIDAT: CIANGU DIANA-ANDREEA

CLASA A XII-F

COORDONATOR: Prof. GUU OANA CATINA

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 Table of Contents

Argument...4
Introduction...5
I. CHILDHOOD6
I.1. Early years.6
I.2. Her parents divorce.6
I.3. Education...7
II. FAMILY AND MARRIAGE..8
II.1. Diana and Charles.8
II.2. The wedding..9
II.3. Children...10
II.4. Charity work10
II.5. Divorce12
II.6. Death12
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS.... 13
Bibliography...14

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 Argument

I have decided to write about Princess Diana of Wales because I consider her
one of the most influential persons who ever lived in this world.

One of the most important things I admire at her is that she was always kind to
everyone and she did many charities, being best known for this. She dedicated a lot of
time to the homeless, the disabled, people with AIDS, and she took a great interest in
the charities concerning children.

One of the reasons that Princess Dianas charity work is so special is because
she truly believed in it, in helping, not only by giving money but also offering
emotional and spiritual support. The Princess fought for so many different causes that
one can really tell how much she cared for humanity in general and how she sincerely
wanted to end suffering wherever it occurred. Princess Diana even said I understand
peoples suffering, peoples pain, more than you will ever know yourself.

Another reason for which I admire her is that she cared for all children, no
matter age, religion or nationality and she was like a universal mother. Her love for
children was evident in her social work and also in her own family life, Diana placing
much value on the family unit.

Along with her motherly qualities and charitable inclinations, Diana retained
and perfected her feminine charm and eloquence. Princess Diana further used her
fashion sense and femininity to once again help the people. She auctioned off her most
famous dresses to the public to help raise money for the charities she worked for, and
my personal point of view is that this is a wonderful demonstration of using ones
femininity for the public good.

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 Introduction

Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, the
eldest son and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II.

She was well known for her fund-raising work for international charities and as
an eminent celebrity of the late 20th century. Her wedding to the Prince of Wales on
29 July 1981 was held at St Paul's Cathedral and seen by a global television audience
of over 750 million. While married she bore the titlesPrincess of Wales, Duchess of
Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Chester and Baroness of Renfrew. The
marriage produced two sons, the princes William and Harry, who became second and
third in line to the British throne.

She became a public figure with the announcement of her engagement. She also
received recognition for her charity work and for her support of the International
Campaign to Ban Landmines.

From 1989, she was the president of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for
children, in addition to dozens of other charities.

Diana remained the object of worldwide media scrutiny during and after her
marriage, which ended in divorce on 28 August 1996. Media attention and public
mourning were considerable following her death in a car crash in Paris on 31 August
1997.

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 Chapter I. Childhood
I.1. Early years

Diana Frances Spencer was born as the youngest daughter of Edward

Spencer, Viscount Althorp, and his first wife, Frances Spencer, Viscountess
Althorp on July 1, 1961 at Park House on the Sandringham estate; she was born
into an aristocratic family with Royal blood in the ancestry.

I.2. Her parents divorce

During her parents acrimonious divorce over Lady Althorps

adultery with Peter Shand Kydd, Dianas mother sued for custody of her
children, but Lord Althorps rank, aided by Lady Althorps mothers
testimony against her daughter during the trial, meant custody of Diana
and her brother was awarded to their father.

On the death of her paternal grandfather, Albert Spencer, 7th Earl

Spencer, in 1975, Dianas father became the 8th Earl Spencer, and she
acquired the courtesy title of The Lady Diana Spencer and moved from
her childhood home at Park House to her familys sixteenth-century
ancestral home of Althorp. A year later, Lord Spencer married Raine,
Countess of Dartmouth, the only daughter of the romance novelist
Barbara Cartland, after being named as the other party in the Earl and
Countess of Dartmouths divorce.

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I.3. Education

Diana was educated at

Riddlesworth Hall in Norfolk and at West
Heath Girls School in Sevenoaks, Kent,
where she was regarded as an
academically below-average student,
having failed all of her O-level
examinations.

In 1977, aged 16, she left

West Heath and briefly attended
Institut Alpin Videmanette, a
finishing school in Rougemont,
Switzerland.

Diana was a talented

amateur pianist, excelled in
sports and reportedly longed to
be a ballerina.

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 Chapter II. Family and Marriage

Dianas family, the Spencers, had been close to the British Royal Family
for decades. Her maternal grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy, was a longtime
friend of, and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

II.1. Diana and Charles

The Prince of Wales had known Lady Diana for several years, but he first
took a serious interest in her as a potential bride during the summer of 1980,
when they were guests at a country weekend, where she watched him play polo.

The relationship developed as he invited her for a sailing weekend

to Cowes aboard the royal yacht Britannia, followed by an invitation
to Balmoral to meet his family. Lady Diana was well received by the Queen, the
Duke of Edinburgh, and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

The couple subsequently courted in London. The prince proposed on 6

February 1981, and Lady Diana accepted, but their engagement was kept secret
for the next few weeks.

Their engagement became

official on 24 February 1981, after
Lady Diana selected a large
30,000 ring (94,800 in today's
terms) consisting of 14 solitaire
diamonds elegantly surrounding a
12-carat oval blue Ceylon
sapphire set in 18-karat white
gold, similar to her mother's
engagement ring.

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II.2. The wedding

The wedding took place at St Pauls Cathedral in London on

Wednesday 29 July 1981 before 3,500 invited guests and an estimated 1
billion television viewers around the world.
Diana was the first English woman to marry an heir to the throne
since 1659, when Lady Anne Hyde married the Duke of York and Albany,
the future King James II.

Upon her marriage, Diana became Her Royal Highness The

Princess of Wales and was ranked as the most senior royal woman in the
United Kingdom after the Queen and the Queen Mother.

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II.3. Children
The Prince and Princess of Wales had two children, Prince William
of Wales on 21 June 1982 and Prince Henry of Wales on 15 September
1984.

II.4. Charity work

Starting in the mid-to-late 1980s, the Princess of Wales became well

known for her support of charity projects, and is credited with considerable
influence for her campaigns against the use of landmines and helping the victims
of AIDS.

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AIDS

In April 1987, the Princess of Wales was

the first high-profile celebrity to be
photographed knowingly touching a person
infected with the HIV virus.

Her contribution to changing the public

opinion of AIDS sufferers was summarised in
December 2001 by Bill Clinton at the Diana,
Princess of Wales Lecture on AIDS, when he
stated: In 1987, when so many still believed
that AIDS could be contracted through casual
contact, Princess Diana sat on the sickbed of a
man with AIDS and held his hand. She showed
the world that people with AIDS deserve no
isolation, but compassion and kindness. It helped
change world opinion, and gave hope to people
with AIDS with an outcome of saved lives of
people at risk.

Landmines

Perhaps her most widely publicised charity appearance was her visit to
Angola in January 1997, when, serving as an International Red Cross VIP
volunteer, she visited landmine survivors in hospitals, toured de-mining projects
run by the HALO Trust, and attended mine awareness education classes about
the dangers of mines immediately surrounding homes and villages.

The pictures of Diana touring a minefield, in a ballistic helmet and flak

jacket, were seen worldwide. In August that year, she visited Bosnia with the
Landmine Survivors Network. Her interest in landmines was focused on the
injuries they create, often to children, long after the conflict has finished.

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II.5. Divorce

From the very beginning

Diana and Charles' marriage was
not blessed with good fortune, as,
during the engagement period,
Diana had the feeling that
Camilla played a great role in
Charles' life.

Still during their marriage,

Charles was having his long term
affair with Camilla
and Diana was finding it
impossible to live a loveless life.
By the late 1990s, their separate
lives had become public
knowledge. In December 1992,
Prime Minister John Major
announced that the couple had
agreed to separate.

Their divorce was decreed

on 28th August 1996.After this,
the Princess continued to live at
Kensington Palace and carry out
public work.

II.6. Death
On August 31, 1997 Diana was involved in a car accident in the Pont de
lAlma road tunnel in Paris, along with her friend and lover Dodi Fayed, and
their driver Henri Paul.

Over a million people lined the route of the funeral cortege to

Westminster Abbey and along her final journey to the Spencer family home in
Northamptonshire. Her sons, William and Harry, were joined by Prince Charles
in the cortege.

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 Final Considerations

Taking everything into consideration, I strongly believe that

Diana deserved the title The Princess of Hearts, because from the
time of her engagement with the Prince of Wales in 1981, until her
death due to a car accident in 1997, she was arguably the most famous
woman in the world, the pre-eminent female celebrity of her
generation: a fashion icon, an image of feminine beauty, admired and
emulated foe her high-profile involvement in AIDS issues and the
international campaign against landmines.
An iconic presence on the world-stage, Diana, Princess of Wales
was noted for her admirable charity work. Yet her generous efforts
were overshadowed by her scandal-plagued marriage to Prince
Charles. Her bitter accusations via friends and biographers of adultery,
mental cruelty and emotional distress visited upon her riveted the
world for much of the 1990s, filling magazine articles and television
movies.
During her lifetime, she was often referred to as the most
photographed person in the world, and to her admirers, The Princess
of Wales was a role model-after her death, there were even calls for
her to be nominated for sainthood-while her detractors saw her life as
a cautionary tale of how an obsession with publicity can ultimately
destroy an individual.

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