We are going to tell something about princess Diana’s life.
We will tell something about her marriage, which was very bad, her charity because she was very compassionate with sick and poor people, the car accident because there is a lot of different information about the cause of the accident and the death of Diana. We will also tell something about her funeral which was visited by a lot of people and was very emotional.

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In this chapter we are going to tell something about Diana’s life from her birth until her death.

Princess Diana was born on the first of July 1961.
She was the third daughter of Lord Edward John Spencer and his wife Frances Ruth Burke Roche. After her grandfather’s death, Diana gets the title “Lady Diana”.
Diana met Prince Charles in November 1977; he was a friend of her sister.
From 1977 until 1981 Diana worked as a nursery school teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico. In 1980 she got in tough with the Royal Family. Lady Diana and Prince Charles officially engaged when the Spencers visited the Windsors. They married on the twenty-ninth of July. Their first son Prince William Arthur Philip Louis was born at ST. Mary’s Hospital on the twenty-first of June 1982. Their second son Prince Henry Charles Albert David was also born at St. Mary’s Hospital on the fifteenth of September 1984. On the ninth of December 1992 the British premier John Major told the parliament that Charles and Diana wanted to divorce.
In 1995 Diana wins the price for humanity from the society of brain-research.
After a marriage of fifteen years Diana and Charles divorced, Diana lost her title of Your Highness, but she can call herself the Princess of Wales. In January 1997 Diana demonstrated in Angola against the spreading of landmines and wanted to forbid these weapons around the world. Diana visited Bosnia on the tenth of August 1997; this was her last journey as “Charity Queen” and ‘Queen of hearts”.
On the thirty-first of August 1997 she died in an accident in the Seine-tunnel in Paris.

The conclusion of this chapter is that Diana had a very short and tough life.

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In this chapter we are going to tell something about the marriage of Diana and Charles.

When Diana and Charles got two sons it looked like a happy family for outsiders.
Very quickly after the fairytale marriage Prince Charles couldn’t let go his old lover Camilla Parker-Bowles and he couldn’t accept the fact that Diana was more popular than he was. Diana felt rejected while she just desired to love, support and give compliments. She desired others to say she was doing very well in her new role as a princess. She was very insecure and the publicity and press gave her a lot of stress.
Charles couldn’t deal with these emotions and he didn’t know how she felt.
This life was normal for him.

Diana got more and more insecure and she developed an eating disorder: Bulimia.
Charles went to his old lover, and Diana was desperately looking for love.
After a few affairs she got more confident. From that moment she knew that her bad marriage with Charles wasn’t her fault.

Charles and Diana had more and more fights and their staff thought that there would be a day the whole world knew that they were fighting. The queen asked them to try to stay together, while they were visiting Korea.
But a lot of people already knew everything about their problems.

The marriage was really over when Diana turned her head away when Charles tried to kiss her after they won a trophy.

After years of illness and five attempts of suicide she decided it was enough, and told her story to the writer Andrew Morton.
When the first edition of the book appeared Diana and Charles wanted to divorce.
In 1996 the divorce was officially declared.

The conclusion of this chapter is that Diana and Charles had a lot of trouble in their marriage. Charles didn’t support Diana when she became a princess.

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In this chapter we are going to tell you something about Diana and charity.

Diana was known as the ‘Queen of Hearts’. When she was a little girl she felt great sympathy for people who felt unloved, who were disabled or who had a disease. She tried to give all the people in the world the love they needed. Diana could connect with everyone, it didn’t matter what colour skin they had, or what they believed. No matter where she came she conquered everyone’s heart, and tried to collect as much money as she could for charity.

Diana collected money for every organisation, on a moment she had contact with 150 charity institutions. From 90 of them she was chairwoman or patroness. Sometimes hospital-patients woke up and saw their ‘Queen of Hearts’ sitting next to them in jeans and a baseball cap on her head.

Diana made a lot of furtively rounds in hospitals to comfort the ill and dying patients. When she severed the bands with the institutions there were 6 left, including Leprosy Mission. She didn’t only bring Leprosy Mission under attention but also donated a lot of money to them.

With a money donation dinner at Kensington Palace she obtained about 100.000 pounds. Her lovely English ballet was there also, for every ‘Diana event’ she contained about 50.000 to 80.000 pounds.

Diana was patroness from the National Aids Trust and the Centerpoint for homeless people. She was helping with the work sometimes and obtained thousands of pounds to take care of it that the work could still be done. She was chairwoman from NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden, a cancer hospital in London. Diana knew how to bring the patients under attention and took care that more research for cancer would took place.

A trip to Chicago brought up 800.000 dollars and an auction for her clothes in New York a million dollars. She gave all this money to the hospital. Then there is the Child hospital in London where Diana was fundraiser and chairwoman. During her visits to the hospital she always looked for the shyest child and gave that child her special attention.

The conclusion of this chapter is that Diana was a sensitive woman and because of this she was respected by all the English people. She did a lot of things for sick and dying people. It’s a shame those people can’t see and talk to their Queen of Hearts anymore.

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In this chapter we are going to tell something about the cause of Diana’s accident, and what happened after the accident.

On Sunday the 31st August 1997 around midnight Diana and her boyfriend Dodi left a chic hotel and drove to their private-house in West-Paris. The paparazzi followed them with motors and scooters. Their driver drove with a high speed to the
Alma-tunnel. The maximum speed in the tunnel is 50km/h. Their driver, who was on the run for the paparazzi, drove around 100km/h. In the tunnel the car hits the wall.

Last year Paul Burrell, the butler of Princess Diana came with new revelations. He has a letter from the princess. In this letter Diana predicted her own death.
She said that she feared for an attempted murder. ‘An unknown person is busy to prepare an accident with my car’, with a defect on the brakes and heavy brain injury as consequence. Diana wrote also in her letter, ‘when I am death Charles can marry again’. The Daily Mirror says Diana also wrote who’s guilty, but they can’t publish this name.

Paul Burrell says he was with Diana when she put the letter in an envelope.
She wrote his name and the date on it and said keep it, you never know.
There was a lot of criticism on Burrell because he concealed the letter for a long time.
It is still not clear why he didn’t use the letter as evidence during the trial in France.
The Times hired a paleographer to see if the letter isn’t false.
She said that it’s a written letter from Diana.

According of friends of Diana it is impossible that she wrote such a letter, because she said she was battered, bruised and abused for 15 years and she thanked Charles for it. Diana’s friends didn’t like that Burrell didn’t think about William and Harry with his revelations.

Mohammed al Fayed, Dodi’s father, the friend of Diana, said for years that there was a conspiracy to kill Dodi and Diana. He also said that Diana told him that she feared for her life. Mohammed al Fayed asked for an full open examination to the cause of death from Dodi and Diana. The English and French authorities said there were no plans for an examination. Mohammed al Fayed also wonders why Burrell waited so long with the letter and what else would come.

The conclusion of this chapter is that the accident was probably prepared by unknown people; it’s still not clear who did it.

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In this chapter we are going to tell something about Diana who was probably pregnant when she died.

The police told the Independent that Lady Diana was pregnant when she died 8 years ago in a traffic accident in Paris. The policeman read all the medical files from the Princess of Wales, that’s the reason that he knew she was pregnant.

Before this revelation people talked about Diana’s pregnancy every time. Burrell, Diana’s butler, said it wasn’t true. The policeman says he thinks the information about Diana’s pregnancy was held back, because of her family.

It also wasn’t relevant for finding the cause of Diana’s accident and her death, that’s the reason it wasn’t confessed. That’s what the policeman told The Independent.

Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi al Fayed died in a car accident 8 years ago. Their driver who was drunk also died.

There are a lot of different stories about the cause of the accident. The driver who was drunk would be guilty, or the paparazzi who were going after the couple in the tunnel of Paris.

There are also intriguing theories about the cause of death. The British Royal Family would have prepared the death of Diana and her boyfriend Dodi.

The policeman from Paris who told about Diana’s pregnancy told to The Independent that there wasn’t a conspiracy.

A British coroner investigated the cause of death of Diana and Dodi in January 2004. There arose a lot of fuss around the fact that this investigation started 6 years after the accident. The coroner who was leading the investigation said that the investigation can only start when all the files from France are in England, and are translated.

The conclusion of this chapter is that Diana surely was pregnant when she died in a car accident 8 years ago, because the policeman who told this to the Independent saw all the medical files. The cause of her death isn’t sure.

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In this chapter we are going to tell something about the funeral of Princess Diana, and the ceremony in Westminster Abbey.

England said goodbye to the Queen of hearts on the 6th of September 1997 in an impressive way. Diana, Princess of Wales was brought from Westminster Abbey where the emotional memorial service was to her parental house in Northamptonshire. She is buried on an Island in the Oval Lake on the estate, Althorp House.

The people along the route from London applaused after the ceremony when the car with the coven drove by, beside the whole route were people standing throwing flowers at the car.

Prince Charles accompanied his sons William and Harry on this last trip of their mother. The ceremony in Westminster Abbey was attended by Queen Elizabeth, but the funeral was not.

When they buried Diana, her two sons William and Harry, Prince Charles, her Brother Charles Spencer, her two sisters’ lady Jane and Lady Sarah, their husbands, her mother Frances Ruth Burke Roche and her personal Butler Paul Burrell were there.

During the ceremony in Westminster Abbey the British premier spoke, he underlined the princess' special character. There were almost 2000 guests, some of them are: Sarah Herguson, Hillary Clinton, Mohammed al Fayed, Elton John, Luciano Pavarotti, George Michael and a lot of representatives from Charity Institutions.

Charles Spencer, Diana’s younger brother praised Diana’s effort for the poor people in society and her involvement with the charity institutions with which she felt connected.

The people were compassionate with the 2 young prince’s William and Harry, and the loss they have to deal with. Diana’s brother also asked the media if they didn’t want to pursue Diana’s children like his chased sister.

Earl Spencer said to the Royal Family that they promised they would take care of it that William and Harry weren’t immersed by duties and traditions alone.

Before this Elton John sang one of Diana’s favourite songs. For this ceremony the song Candle in the wind was adapted to honour Diana.

The one minute of silence for Diana, who died at the age of 36 closed the ceremony in Westminster Abbey. After this Diana’s body was carried outside to continue the trip to her parental house in Northamptonshire.

The family thought the special resting place in the lake was good, because this guarantees the privacy of the relatives.

The conclusion of this chapter is that Diana had an honourablel funeral. A lot of people supported her children in that horrible time.

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In this chapter we are going to tell something about the song Elton John played on Princess Diana’s funeral: Candle in the wind.

We told earlier that Elton John sang Candle in the wind after he changed it for Diana.

The song is composed by Bernie Taupin. He wrote it together with Elton John in 1974. The original song is about Marilyn Monroe. They used the real name of Marilyn, Norma Jean in this song, to tell the truth about her life: how people around her abused her for their own gain and forced her to be someone she wasn’t.

Elton John and Bernie Taupin admired Marilyn for the fight to keep her own self-respect, while she had to play the role of a famous Hollywood star. In the song they criticize the media who bothered her in public, even after her death. They blame the press that they made a sex-symbol of Marilyn Monroe. The text was written as if an unknown admirer was telling this.

The changed song: Princess Diana

When the two sons of Diana asked Elton John to sing the song, he couldn’t use all the original words. Elton John knew Diana personal. She comforted him a few weeks before, when one of his friends, Gianni Versace, died. He rewrote the song, not only for Diana but for England.

The words Elton John chose were softer than the original. He calls Diana the rose of England and tells how moving and compassionate she was. He used the words that make Diana a legend: ‘may you ever grow in our hearts, the stars spell out your name, our nation’s golden child’.
The song is special because a lot of used words or expressions have a double meaning. The original song is also applicable to Diana’s life.

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The rewritten song is characteristic because it’s only accompanied by one instrument: the piano. During the ceremony Elton John led himself. After that they made a single of this song. It is one of the best sold singles worldwide. Elton John decided to give the profit he got with his single to a special fund: The Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.

The conclusion of this chapter is that Elton John supported a lot of people with his song, especially William and Harry who asked Elton John to sing this song on Diana’s funeral.

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How was Diana’s life and what was the reason that she died so young?

Diana had a very short and tough life.
Her marriage had a lot of difficulties. Prince Charles didn’t understand that her life was very hard as a Princess and he didn’t support her.
Diana was a sensitive woman and because of this she was respected by all the English people. She did a lot of things for sick and dying people.
She died in a car accident which was probably prepared by unknown people; it’s still not clear who did it. Diana was pregnant when she died, this is sure because the policeman who said this read all her medical files.
Because of all this her funeral was very honourable, you could see that all the English people found it terrible and supported her two sons.
Also Elton John supported her two sons, because he sang the song ‘Candle in the wind’ at her funeral.