MINISTERUL EDUCAȚIEI, CERCETĂRII ȘI INOVĂRII

COLEGIUL NAȚIONAL „GRIGORE MOISIL”

ONEȘTI, BACĂU

LUCRARE DE ATESTAT LA LIMBA ENGLEZĂ

CANDIDAT: CIANGĂU DIANA-ANDREEA

CLASA A XII-F

2013

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COORDONATOR: Prof. GUȚU OANA CATINA

COLEGIUL NAȚIONAL „GRIGORE MOISIL”

ONEȘTI

LADY DI, THE PRINCESS OF HEARTS

CANDIDAT: CIANGĂU DIANA-ANDREEA

CLASA A XII-F

COORDONATOR: Prof. GUȚU OANA CATINA

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Table of Contents

Argument……………………………………………………………...4

Introduction…………………………………………………………...5

I. CHILDHOOD………………………………………………………6

I.1. Early years……………………………………………….6I.2. Her parent’s divorce…………………………………….6I.3. Education………………………………………………...7

II. FAMILY AND MARRIAGE……………………………………..8

II.1. Diana and Charles……………………………………….8

II.2. The wedding……………………………………………..9

II.3. Children………………………………………………...10

II.4. Charity work……………………………………………10

II.5. Divorce…………………………………………………12

II.6. Death……………………………………………………12

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS…………………………………..….. 13

Bibliography………………………………………………………...14

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Argument

I have decided to write about Princess Diana of Wales because I consider her one of the most influential persons who ever lived in this world.

One of the most important things I admire at her is that she was always kind to everyone and she did many charities, being best known for this. She dedicated a lot of time to the homeless, the disabled, people with AIDS, and she took a great interest in the charities concerning children.

One of the reasons that Princess Diana’s charity work is so special is because she truly believed in it, in helping, not only by giving money but also offering emotional and spiritual support. The Princess fought for so many different causes that one can really tell how much she cared for humanity in general and how she sincerely wanted to end suffering wherever it occurred. Princess Diana even said “I understand people’s suffering, people’s pain, more than you will ever know yourself…”.

Another reason for which I admire her is that she cared for all children, no matter age, religion or nationality and she was like a universal mother. Her love for children was evident in her social work and also in her own family life, Diana placing much value on the family unit.

Along with her motherly qualities and charitable inclinations, Diana retained and perfected her feminine charm and eloquence. Princess Diana further used her fashion sense and femininity to once again help the people. She auctioned off her most famous dresses to the public to help raise money for the charities she worked for, and my personal point of view is that this is a wonderful demonstration of using one’s femininity for the public good.

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Introduction

Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest son and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II.

She was well known for her fund-raising work for international charities and as an eminent celebrity of the late 20th century. Her wedding to the Prince of Wales on 29 July 1981 was held at St Paul's Cathedral and seen by a global television audience of over 750 million. While married she bore the titlesPrincess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Chester and Baroness of Renfrew. The marriage produced two sons, the princes William and Harry,  who became second and third in line to the British throne.

She became a public figure with the announcement of her engagement. She also received recognition for her charity work and for her support of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

From 1989, she was the president of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, in addition to dozens of other charities.

Diana remained the object of worldwide media scrutiny during and after her marriage, which ended in divorce on 28 August 1996. Media attention and public mourning were considerable following her death in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.

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Chapter I. Childhood

I.1. Early years

Diana Frances Spencer was born as the youngest daughter of Edward Spencer, Viscount Althorp, and his first wife, Frances Spencer, Viscountess Althorp on July 1, 1961 at Park House on the Sandringham estate; she was born into an aristocratic family with Royal blood in the ancestry.

I.2. Her parent’s divorce

During her parents acrimonious divorce over Lady Althorp’s adultery with Peter Shand Kydd, Diana’s mother sued for custody of her children, but Lord Althorp’s rank, aided by Lady Althorp’s mother’s testimony against her daughter during the trial, meant custody of Diana and her brother was awarded to their father.

On the death of her paternal grandfather, Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, in 1975, Diana’s father became the 8th Earl Spencer, and she acquired the courtesy title of The Lady Diana Spencer and moved from her childhood home at Park House to her family’s sixteenth-century ancestral home of Althorp. A year later, Lord Spencer married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth, the only daughter of the romance novelist Barbara

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Cartland, after being named as the “other party” in the Earl and Countess of Dartmouth’s divorce.

I.3. Education

Diana was educated at Riddlesworth Hall in Norfolk and at West Heath Girls’ School in Sevenoaks, Kent, where she was regarded as an academically below-average student, having failed all of her O-level examinations.

In 1977, aged 16, she left West Heath and briefly attended Institut Alpin Videmanette, a finishing school in Rougemont, Switzerland.

Diana was a talented amateur pianist, excelled in sports and reportedly longed to be a ballerina.

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Chapter II. Family and Marriage

Diana’s family, the Spencers, had been close to the British Royal Family for decades. Her maternal grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy, was a longtime friend of, and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

II.1. Diana and CharlesThe Prince of Wales had known Lady Diana for several years, but he first

took a serious interest in her as a potential bride during the summer of 1980, when they were guests at a country weekend, where she watched him play polo.

The relationship developed as he invited her for a sailing weekend to Cowes aboard the royal yacht Britannia, followed by an invitation to Balmoral to meet his family. Lady Diana was well received by the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

The couple subsequently courted in London. The prince proposed on 6 February 1981, and Lady Diana accepted, but their engagement was kept secret for the next few weeks.

Their engagement became official on 24 February 1981, after Lady Diana selected a large £30,000 ring (£94,800 in today's terms) consisting of 14 solitaire diamonds elegantly surrounding a

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12-carat oval blue Ceylon sapphire set in 18-karat white gold, similar to her mother's engagement ring.

II.2. The wedding

The wedding took place at St Paul’s Cathedral in London on Wednesday 29 July 1981 before 3,500 invited guests and an estimated 1 billion television viewers around the world.

Diana was the first English woman to marry an heir to the throne since 1659, when Lady Anne Hyde married the Duke of York and Albany, the future King James II.

Upon her marriage, Diana became Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales and was ranked as the most senior royal

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woman in the United Kingdom after the Queen and the Queen Mother.

II.3. ChildrenThe Prince and Princess of Wales had two children, Prince

William of Wales on 21 June 1982 and Prince Henry of Wales on 15 September 1984.

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Charity work

Starting in the mid-to-late 1980s, the Princess of Wales became well known for her support of charity projects, and is credited with considerable influence for her campaigns against the use of landmines and helping the victims of AIDS.

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AIDS

In April 1987, the Princess of Wales was the first high-profile celebrity to be photographed knowingly touching a person infected with the HIV virus.

Her contribution to changing the public opinion of AIDS sufferers was summarised in December 2001 by Bill Clinton at the ‘Diana, Princess of Wales Lecture on AIDS’, when he stated: ”In 1987, when so many still believed that AIDS could be contracted through casual contact, Princess Diana sat on the sickbed of a man with AIDS and held his hand. She showed the world that people with AIDS deserve no isolation, but compassion and kindness. It helped change world opinion, and gave hope to people with AIDS with an outcome of saved lives of people at risk.”

Landmines

Perhaps her most widely publicised charity appearance was her visit to Angola in January 1997, when, serving as an International Red Cross VIP volunteer, she visited landmine survivors in hospitals, toured de-mining projects run by the HALO Trust, and attended mine awareness education classes about the dangers of mines immediately surrounding homes and villages.

The pictures of Diana touring a minefield, in a ballistic helmet and flak jacket, were seen worldwide. In August that year, she visited Bosnia with the Landmine Survivors Network. Her interest in landmines was focused on the injuries they create, often to children, long after the conflict has finished.

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II.5. Divorce

From the very beginning Diana and Charles' marriage was not blessed with good fortune, as, during the engagement period, Diana had the feeling that Camilla played a great role in Charles' life.

Still during their marriage, Charles was having his long term affair with Camilla and Diana was finding it impossible to live a loveless life. By the late 1990s, their separate lives had become public knowledge. In December 1992, Prime Minister John Major announced that the couple had agreed to separate.

Their divorce was decreed on 28th August 1996.After this, the Princess continued to live at Kensington Palace and carry out public work.

II.6. DeathOn August 31, 1997 Diana was involved in a car accident in the Pont de

l’Alma road tunnel in Paris, along with her friend and lover Dodi Fayed, and their driver Henri Paul.

Over a million people lined the route of the funeral cortege to Westminster Abbey and along her final journey to the Spencer family home in Northamptonshire. Her sons, William and Harry, were joined by Prince Charles in the cortege.

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Final Considerations

Taking everything into consideration, I strongly believe that Diana deserved the title “The Princess of Hearts”, because from the time of her engagement with the Prince of Wales in 1981, until her death due to a car accident in 1997, she was arguably the most famous woman in the world, the pre-eminent female celebrity of her generation: a fashion icon, an image of feminine beauty, admired and emulated foe her high-profile involvement in AIDS issues and the international campaign against landmines.

An iconic presence on the world-stage, Diana, Princess of Wales was noted for her admirable charity work. Yet her generous efforts were overshadowed by her scandal-plagued marriage to Prince Charles. Her bitter accusations via friends and biographers of adultery, mental cruelty and emotional distress visited upon her riveted the world for much of the 1990s, filling magazine articles and television movies.

During her lifetime, she was often referred to as the most photographed person in the world, and to her admirers, The Princess of Wales was a role model-after her death, there were even calls for her to be nominated for sainthood-while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale of how an obsession with publicity can ultimately destroy an individual.

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