Pemuco, 20 de septiembre de 2022
Dear aunt Mary:
How was it in Santiago? We are all very concerned about your state of
health. I am writing to know about you and you are staying in that city
practically unknown to you, I know that you are in the company of your
youngest daughter and that she is taking care of her but, all of us in the
family are very worried, we await news from you and We wish a speedy
recovery.
A very big hug from a distance.
Atte Gricel P
Diana of Wales
Born Diana Frances Spencer on July 1, 1961 at Park House (located in
Sandringham Norfolk), she was the daughter of John Spencer, 8th Earl of Spencer
and Frances Roche. He grew up in Sandringham close to the royal family, his
childhood was affected by the divorce of his parents in 1967, Diana was seven
years old when her parents divorced, her mother remarried in 1969 and her father
in 1975.
Diana was initially educated at home under the supervision of her governess, she
began her formal education at Silfield Private School in Gayton, Norfolk, moving to
Riddlesworth Hall School, an all-girls boarding school near Thetford, when she was
nine years old. She did not shine academically, failing her O-level exams twice.
After attending the Institut Alpin Videmanette (an end-of-term school in
Rougemont, Switzerland) for one term and leaving after Easter 1978, Diana
returned to London, where she shared her mother's flat with two friends from the
school. In London, he took an advanced cooking course, but rarely cooked for his
roommates. She found employment as an assistant in a preschool, did some
cleaning work for her sister Sarah and several of her friends. She spent time
working as a nanny for the Robertsons, an American family living in London,
and worked as a nursery teacher's assistant at the Young England School in
Pimlico.
Lady Diana met Charles, Prince of Wales, the queen's eldest son and heir to the
British crown; when she was 16 in November 1977. He was then 29 and dating her
older sister, Lady Sarah. They were guests at a country weekend in the summer of
1980 when she watched him play polo and he became seriously interested in
Diana as a possible bride. Lady Diana was well received by the Queen, the Queen
Mother and the Duke of Edinburgh. Subsequently, Prince Charles courted Diana in
London. The prince proposed to her on February 6, 1981 at Windsor Castle, and
Lady Diana accepted, but their engagement was kept secret for two and a half
weeks.
Their engagement became official on February 24, 1981, chose her own
engagement ring. Following the engagement, Diana left her occupation as an
assistant nursery teacher and lived for a short time at Clarence House, which was
the home of the Queen Mother, he then lived in Buckingham Palace until the
wedding. He made his first public appearance with Prince Charles at a benefit ball
in March 1981 at Goldsmiths' Hall, where he met Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco.
Twenty-year-old Diana became Princess of Wales when she married Charles on
July 29, 1981. The wedding took place in St. Paul's Cathedral, which offered more
seats than Westminster Abbey, a church that is usually used for royal weddings.
Their wedding was described as "The Wedding of the Century" and was watched
by a global television audience of 750 million people as 600,000 spectators lined
the streets to watch the couple en route to the ceremony.
On November 5, 1981, Diana's pregnancy was announced. In January 1982, at 12
weeks pregnant, Diana fell down a staircase at Sandringham, suffering some
bruising, Royal gynecologist George Pinker was summoned from London; the fetus
was uninjured. On June 21, 1982, Diana gave birth to the couple's first child,
Prince William. Amidst some media criticism, he decided to take William, who was
still a baby, on his first major tours of Australia and New Zealand, and the decision
was applauded by the public. By her own admission, Diana had not initially
intended to take William with her until Malcolm Fraser, the Australian Prime
Minister, made the suggestion. A second son, Prince Harry, was born on
September 15, 1984. The princess said that she and Carlos were closer during her
pregnancy with Harry. She knew that her second child was a boy, but she did not
share the knowledge with anyone else, including Carlos. Diana gave her children
broader experiences than was usual for royal children.
He instilled in them a magnificent education and humanistic values, and with them
he carried out activities that were not typical of the monarchy, with the firm
determination that they have a childhood like any other person who did not belong
to that status: he took them to fast food restaurants, theme parks or treatment
centers for the sick and shelters for the needy, ensuring that their children learn
firsthand about the situation of people without resources.
Five years after their marriage, the couple's incompatibility and twelve-year age
difference became visible and damaging. Carlos resumed his relationship with ex-
girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles. In 1987, the cracks in the couple had become
visible and the press reported on the unhappiness and cold attitude between the
two. In 1989, Diana was at a birthday party for Camilla's sister, Annabel Elliot,
when she confronted Camilla about her extramarital affair with Carlos. These
issues were later exposed in May 1992 with the publication of Andrew Morton's
book, Diana: Her True Story. In 1991, James Colthurst had conducted secret
interviews with Diana in which she had discussed her marital problems and
difficulties. These recordings were later used as the source for Morton's book.
During 1992 and 1993, leaked tapes of phone conversations reflected negatively
on both Carlos and Diana. The "Squidgygate" article was followed in November
1992 by the leaked "Camillagate" tapes, intimate exchanges between Carlos and
Camila, published in the tabloids. Prince Charles sought public understanding
through a televised interview with Jonathan Dimbleby on June 29, 1994. In the
interview, he said that he had rekindled his relationship with Camilla in 1986 only
after his marriage to Diana had "irretrievably broken down." ". At the same time,
Diana attended an event organized by Vanity Fair wearing a controversial outfit
that would later become known as the "revenge dress". Journalist Martin Bashir
interviewed Diana for the BBC's current affairs program Panorama. The interview
was broadcast on November 20, 1995. The princess discussed her and her
husband's extramarital affairs, referring to Charles's relationship with Camilla:
"Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
He also denounced the constant harassment by photographers, paparazzi and
journalists. In addition, he referred to the little support he received from the royal
family and his own infidelities. Finally, a different concept of monarchy was
established: linked more firmly with the people. Her attitude earned her the
nickname "The People's Princess"
The divorce was finalized on August 28, 1996. Diana lost the style of "Her Royal
Highness", but retained the title of Princess of Wales. As the mother of the prince
who hoped to one day ascend the throne, she continued to be considered a
member of the royal family and was accorded the same precedence she enjoyed
during her marriage. The queen reportedly wanted Diana to continue wearing the
Royal Highness style after her divorce, but Charles had insisted on doing away
with it. Prince William was reported to have reassured his mother by saying, "Don't
worry, Mum, I'll give it back to you someday when I'm king." Diana became the only
non-royal princess in the history of the United Kingdom; however, he was able to
maintain his residence at Kensington Palace. His purpose was to maintain good
relations with the British royal family for the sake of his children (at the time, the
second and third in the line of succession).
She was the patron saint of charities and organizations that worked with the
homeless, youth, drug addicts, and the elderly. From 1989, she was president of
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. She was patron of the Natural History
Museum172173 and president of the Royal Academy of Music. In 1988, she
became a patron of the British Red Cross and supported its organizations in other
countries such as Australia and Canada. In 1992, she became the first patron of
the Chester Childbirth Appeal, a charity she had supported since 1984. In 1994,
she helped her friend Julia Samuel launch the charity Child Bereavement UK which
supports children "from military families, of suicide victims and terminally ill
parents," and became its patron. The princess began her work with AIDS patients
in the 1980s. She was not averse to having physical contact with AIDS patients,
and was the first British royal figure to do so. In 1987, he took an AIDS patient by
the hand in one of his first efforts to destigmatize the condition. Diana noted: "HIV
doesn't make it dangerous to meet people. You can shake their hand and give
them a hug. God knows they need it. Plus, you can share their homes, their
workplaces, their play areas and their toys." ". In 1991, he hugged a patient during
a visit to the AIDS ward at Middlesex Hospital, which had opened in 1987 as the
UK's first dedicated AIDS unit.
Diana was the patron of the HALO Trust, an organization that removes the debris
—particularly landmines—left behind by war. In January 1997, pictures of Diana
touring an Angolan minefield wearing a ballistic helmet and bulletproof vest were
seen around the world. In June 1997, he delivered a speech at a landmine
conference held at the Royal Geographical Society and traveled to Washington,
D.C. to help promote the American Red Cross landmine campaign. His work on the
landmine issue has been described as influential in the signing of the Ottawa
Treaty, which created an international ban on the use of antipersonnel landmines.
For her first official solo trip, Diana visited The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation
Trust, a cancer treatment hospital in London. Diana opened the Wolfson Children's
Cancer Unit on February 25, 1993. In February 1996, Diana, who had been
informed about a newly opened cancer hospital built by Imran Khan, traveled to
Pakistan to visit its children's cancer wards and attend a fundraising dinner in aid of
the charity in Lahore. In September 1996, after questioning by Katharine Graham,
Diana went to Washington and appeared at a White House breakfast regarding the
Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research. She also attended an annual
breast cancer research fundraiser hosted by The Washington Post at the same
center.
After their divorce in 1996, Diana kept the double apartment on the north side of
Kensington Palace that she had shared with Charles since the first year of their
marriage; the apartment remained his home until his death the following year. He
also moved his offices to Kensington Palace, but was allowed to "Use the State
Apartments at St James's Palace". In addition, she continued to have access to the
jewelery she had received during her marriage and was allowed to use the air
travel of the British royal family and government. Diana dated British-Pakistani
heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. Their relationship lasted almost two years with
different versions of who ended it.259260 She is said to have spoken of her
heartbreak when "he" ended their relationship. However, according to Khan's
testimony at the inquest into his death, it was Diana who ended their relationship in
the summer of 1997. Burrell also said that Diana ended the relationship in July
1997. Within a month, Diana began a relationship. with Dodi Al-Fayed, the son of
her summer host, Mohamed Al-Fayed, that summer Diana had considered taking
her children on vacation to the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, but was
prevented from doing so by security agents. After deciding not to travel to Thailand,
he accepted Fayed's invitation to join his family in the south of France, where his
compound and large security team would not worry the Royal Protection squad.
Mohamed Al-Fayed bought the Jonikal, a 60-meter multi-million dollar yacht to
entertain Diana and her children.
On August 31, 1997, Diana died in a car accident in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel, on
the north bank of the Seine River, in Paris; while the driver fled from the paparazzi.
The accident also resulted in the death of her partner Dodi Al-Fayed and the driver,
Henri Paul, who was the acting security manager of the Hôtel Ritz Paris. Diana's
bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, survived the crash. The televised funeral, on 6
September, was watched by a British television audience that peaked at 32.10
million, which was one of the highest viewing figures in the UK. Millions more
watched the event around the world. Although the Royal Family initially refused to
grant Diana a state funeral, the expressions of affection and pain on the part of the
British people forced Buckingham Palace to change its mind, since there were no
regulations for a divorced princess of the United Kingdom and mother of the
second and third in the line of succession, a new term had to be coined to pay
funeral honors to Diana: "A unique burial for a unique person." This was defined by
a spokesman for the Royal Family, more than 24 hours after the accident.
On September 5, Queen Elizabeth II paid tribute to him in a live television
broadcast. Diana's funeral took place in Westminster Abbey on September 6, in
which national mourning was declared. Her children walked in the funeral
procession behind her coffin, along with her ex-husband, the Prince of Wales, the
Duke of Edinburgh, Diana's brother, Lord Spencer, and representatives of some of
her charities. The burial took place in private later the same day. Diana's ex-
husband, children, mother, siblings, a close friend and a clergyman were present.
The original plan was for Diana to be buried in the Spencer family vault at the local
church in nearby Great Brington, but Lord Spencer said he was concerned about
public safety and the rush of visitors that might overwhelm Great Brington. He
decided that Diana would be buried in a place where William, Harry and other
relatives could easily care for her grave and visit her in private.
Diana remains one of the most popular members of the royal family throughout
history and continues to influence younger generations of royals. She was noted
for her compassion, style, charisma, and high-profile charity work, as well as her
unhappy marriage. She was often described as a dedicated mother to her children,
who are believed to be influenced by her personality and lifestyle.
