Diana,Princess of Wales

Lady Diana Spencer was born in 1961. She came from a rich and famous family, but her parents divorced when she was quite young, and she did not have a happy childhood. When she left school, she got a job in London as a nanny, looking after children.

Her quiet life suddenly changed, however, when she met Prince Charles, the Queen´s son. Diana and Charles got married in 1981 and they had two sons, Prince William (1982) and Prince Harry (1984).
Diana became an international superstar. Photographers and reporters followed her everywhere. She used her fame to help lots of charities, particularly those for children and to help victims of AIDS and land-mines.

But the marriage was not happy and in 1996 they got divorced. A year later in August 1997 Diana died in a car crash in Paris. Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched her funeral on television.