Princess Diana

             A famous person whom I consider to be my heroine is Princess Diana. She had everything a person can ask for but happiness. She had a dreamy life but tragic death. She gave a lot to the people around her, trying to give a little happiness to less fortunate people around her. She might not be happy the way she wanted to but she influenced so many people around her that it looks like she found some peace in doing that. After he death people around the world still misses her.
             She was the first English girl to marry an heir to the British throne since Anne Hyde, the daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, wed the future James II in 1660. She was the first Princess of Wales and queen wife to have lived a normal life-as part time cook, children's nanny and kindergarten teacher-and to have shared an apartment, done the household chores and had parking problems with her mini Metro car like any other London working girl. She has also know the trauma of a parental divorce, something that in earlier times would have barred her from consideration as a potential royal consort. A family like the Spencer, sprung from generations of courtiers and royal aides, naturally imposes its own kind of discipline and diplomatic flair. Diana's father, the eighth Earl Spencer, was equerry to king George VI from 1950 until the king's death in 1952 and moved on to fill the same role for the new queen. In 1954 he married Frances Roche, daughter of the fourth Baron Fermoy; as with Charles and Diana, there was a twelve-year gap between them.
             Princess Diana was born on July1, 1961, in a house rented from the Queen just across a low wall from the royal residence at Sandringham, Norfolk. All four of Diana's grandparents served on the Queen Mother's personal staff. She belonged to royal blood, but she never acted like one. Diana attended two schools in Norfolk before enrolling at fashionable West Heath boarding school in Sevenoaks, Kent, where she is remembered as academi...

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