Princess Diana, Queen of Hearts !!

Princess Diana, Queen of Hearts <3 !!!

Today, I am writing about a beautiful, much loved icon. A lonely, troubled soul Princess Diana the most iconic figure and the most photographed person appearing on the covers of magazines of the late 20th Century. She epitomised feminine beauty and glamour. Diana the Princess of Wales was a people's princess. She was one of the most profound and beautiful people the world will ever be known. Her loving kindness gave the home to the homeless. She supported the campaign for landmine victims and gave a loving touch to the AIDS patients. She was an inspiration to her children and people all around the world.

She was admired for her charity work; in particular, her work with AIDS patients. She married Prince Charles in 1981, she received the title of " Her Royal Highness Princess Diana of Wales." She is a mother to Prince William and Prince Harry.

Diana was born on 1st July 1961  to an aristocratic family who links to the Royal Family. Her Father was Edward Spencer, Viscount Althorp. Edward Spencer was a direct descendent to Charles. Her mother was Frances Viscountess Althorp. Her mother was distantly related to the Queen's Mother and was also of American descent. When Diana was young, her parents divorced with her father winning a bitter battle for custody of the children. Diana grew up in the family home of Park House before moving to Althorp in 1975. She did not shine well as a student but did well in music and ballet. When she met her future husband she was working as a part-time assistant in a nursery school in London.

In 1981, Diana married Prince Charles, she was just 20, Charles by contrast was 33 at the time of the wedding. The general public soon warmed to the innocence and beauty of Princess Diana and the wedding was watched by 1 billion people worldwide. During their marriage, they had two sons Prince William and Prince Harry. However, in the mid-1980s, complexity started to appear in the marriage and under much publicity led to divorce 1992. During this period Diana has said to have suffered various health problems such as bulimia and depression.

As Princess of Wales, Diana was expected to take part in various official engagements. In 1987, Princess Diana was one of the first well-known celebrities to be photographed with AIDS victims. This was important in changing attitudes towards the disease. Her natural sympathy and oneness with patients were much admired. In January 1997 she visited minefields in Angola to inspect the clearing of landmines. After her death, the Ottawa Treaty was signed banning the use of anti-personnel landmines. Many agree that her support and role in the campaign played an important role in influencing this decision.

Shortly before her death, June 18th Princess Diana met Mother Teresa. Both admired each other. Mother Teresa always said, " Diana is my daughter. " With utmost humility Diana said " I am very very small Mother Teresa. "

Despite the pervasive press intrusions into her private life, Diana remained very popular because people could identify with her. Her hands-on approach to charity work gave the impression of a new type of Royal, who was no longer so remote.

" Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. " 
                                                               
                                                                                                               Princess Diana

Diana died on 31st August 1997, in a car crash involving Dodi Al-Fayed. On this fateful night, Diana had been on a different journey, one that began in hope and ended in tragedy, a life cut short just as it was truly beginning. Although it was the journey of one woman, somehow it came to embrace and involve us all. In a life of many contrasts and contradictions, one of the most savage of ironies is that Diana's life ended in a tunnel just as she was seeing the light at the end of her own long march to fulfilment and happiness.

I came across the detailed study of Diana Princess of Wales while reading Andrew Morton's Diana in Pursuit of Love the book which I find riveting and unfolds the incidents of her life. Andrew Morton is a Journalist, Biographer and an investigator writer. There are many unanswered questions. Nearly seven years after her death, the writer she trusted the most in this book has gone back, using new sources and material- as well as drawing on a wealth of unpublished matter, including interviews : her hopes, fears, her demons and delights. I find this book a revealing assessment of the Princess's adult life.

In trying to make sense of a complicated and extraordinary life, all too often little consideration is given as to how far Diana had travelled, and the personal and social obstacles she has striven to overcome. Diana began a journey, - a courageous evolution from life as a downtrodden wife and reluctant royal fashion icon to a self-confident and independent modern woman. Her transformation was a personal triumph that was to be tragically short-lived. So here was a woman, who in the words of Hillary Clinton, showed "courage and persistence in getting up and going on whenever life knocked her to the mat."