Princess Diana
...act. In the 1961 our world was changed. A saint came into the world, and her name was Diana. From her love of the people, to her charity work, she changed and improved our world, to make it a better place.
In the 1960’s Wales was a place where royalty meant everything. The heir to the throne (usually the king) never was allowed the privilege to pick the one they were to wed. Queen Elizabeth the second, Princes Charles mother, was brought into the family not by choice but by her mother offering her to the royal family of Wales. Prince Edwards the third (soon known as king), Charles’ father did not love Elizabeth when they wed, they both barely knew each other. Prince Edwards father said that he would learn to love her later in life. When Prince Charles picked Diana to be his future Queen, not everybody in the palace were smiling with glee. There were many disputes throughout both families about their marriage.
Once upon a time there was a little girl who was born, but had to learn she was expected to be a boy. So intent were her parents on having a son that she had to wait to be blessed with a name a week after she was conceived. Miss Diana Frances Spencer. Diana was born on July 1, 1961 at Park House near Sandringham, Norfolk. One of Diana’s most remembered memories were the visits to the churchyard grave of the child her parents conceived just before her, a boy who lived barely 10 hours. Had he survived, she often wondered, would she have existed? Or would her mother, having produced a male heir, have left her husband for another man sooner than she actually did, breaking up the family before Diana could be born? She wished she were her oldest sister, the firstborn, the star of the family: smart, loud, unafraid to greet their hated stepmother with an rude burp. At nine, Diana would bravely declare that she would marry only once and only for love and...
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