Lady Diana Spencer

Lady Diana Spencer, English princess, former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.

Lady Diana was born on 1st July 1961, in Norfolk, England. Her father, Lord Althorp, became the eighth Earl Spencer in 1975. Lady Diana Spencer grew up on her family mansion near the British royal family’s estate in Sandringham, England.

Lady Diana Spencer grew up on her family mansion near the British royal family’s estate in Sandringham, England. She left West Heath in 1977 and went to finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland, which she left after the Easter term of 1978.

On 24 February 1981 it was officially announced that Lady Diana was to marry The Prince of Wales. 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 tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales occurred on Sunday, 31 August 1997 following a car accident in Paris, France. The vehicle in which the Princess was travelling was involved in a high-speed accident in the Place de l'Alma underpass in central Paris shortly before midnight on Saturday, 30 August. The Princess was taken to the La Pitie Salpetriere Hospital, where she underwent two hours of emergency surgery before being declared dead at 0300 BST.