Princess diana last words
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In The Crown season five, the second episode finds Elizabeth Debicki’s Princess Diana in a dilemma. (A note for the reader: spoilers are to follow.) She’s miserable in her marriage to Prince Charles, who is in love with Camilla Parker Bowles. The press follows her every move – so much so that Diana even fears that her home at Kensington Palace might be bugged. And most of all, she feels trapped. Leaving Charles means potentially sacrificing not only her role as an altruistic public servant but her sons: As heirs to the throne, they’d have to remain behind in England if Diana were to move anywhere else. “I’d love to have a book out there so everyone understands how difficult it’s been,” Debicki’s Diana says to her friend James Colthurst when he tells the princess that a journalist named Andrew Morton is writing a book. “But I don’t want to be responsible for starting a war.”
Secretly, Colthurst agrees to be an intermediary between the two. Morton provides him with questions, which he, in turn, passes on to the princess. She records her answers on tape, and Colthurst returns them
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Childhood And Teenage Years
The root of Diana's insecurity lay in her upbringing, despite its privileges. Her family was living on the Queen's estate at Sandringham where her father had rented Park House. He had been a royal equerry for both King George VI and the young Queen Elizabeth II.
But Diana was only six when her parents split up. She would always remember the crunch of her mother's departing footsteps on the gravel drive. The children became pawns in a bitter custody dispute.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
Member of the British royal family (1961–1997)
Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Diana Spencer (disambiguation), Lady Di (disambiguation), People's Princess (disambiguation), and Princess Diana (disambiguation).
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Born | Diana Frances Spencer (1961-07-01)1 July 1961 Park House, Sandringham, England |
Died | 31 August 1997(1997-08-31) (aged 36) Paris, France |
Cause of death | Car crash |
Burial | 6 September 1997 Althorp, Northamptonshire, England |
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Father | John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer |
Mother | Frances Roche |
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Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her activism and glamour, which made her an international icon, earned her enduring popularity.
Diana was born into the British nobility and grew up clo
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