Racheli Plant Rosen, knitted news31.08.22 18:01 Wednesday in Elol Tishfav
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25 years ago today, Princess Diana died in a fatal car accident, in which her partner and the driver of the car were also killed. The Princess of Wales was one of the world’s favorite public figures, and was considered humane, brave, and the most photographed woman in the world at the time. Ten things you didn’t know about the woman and the legend:
1. Diana was born into the Spencer family, an English aristocratic family. Her family was descended from Charles I, King of England. As such, she got married at the age of 19 to Prince Charles, and earned the title “Princess of Wales”.
2. The royal couple were married in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London in July 1981, in front of 3,500 guests and approximately 750 million television viewers from around the world. In contrast, Diana’s funeral was also a highly covered media event watched by crowds all over the world, and by over 32 million viewers, just in the UK.
3. Before marrying Diana, Charles had a brief relationship with her older sister, Lady Sarah Spencer. The marriage of the prince and princess was shaky and unstable, and came to an end when Charles’ affair with his former lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, was revealed.
Diana said of the affair, “There were three of us in this marriage and it just got too crowded.” Even after they divorced, she stayed to live in the palace.
4. The beautiful and noble princess was loved by the people and was called in the world media by nicknames like “Lady Dee” and “Queen of Hearts”. But in practice, her personal life was complex and fragile. She developed eating disorders, tried to commit suicide, and when she was pregnant with William threw herself off a flight of stairs. She said she did it to get Charles’ attention.
The figure of the princess in the wax museum, Madame Tussauds (Photo: Shutterstock)
5. On a visit to India in 1992, Diana posed alone on a bench in the Taj Mahal, and the photo became a sensation. The lonely figure of the princess illustrated the rift in her marriage. After 24 years, her son William and his wife Kate were photographed at the same spot on the same bench, broadcasting a stable, happy and extremely photogenic relationship.
6. The princess was considered particularly humane, especially compared to others from the royal house. She had many charitable enterprises; She learned British Sign Language and was the president of the association in Britain, and fought against the use of landmines.
7. One of the topics that was close to her heart was AIDS patients. who suffered in a terrible way at that time. Diana caused a media stir when she was photographed shaking hands during a hospital visit, without gloves. “If the Princess of Wales can hold the hand of an AIDS patient, who can argue that it doesn’t suit him?” Bill Clinton said about her. “She showed the world that people with AIDS do not need isolation but compassion.”
8. On August 31, 1997, Diana was involved in a car accident in a tunnel in Paris, and after two hours of rescue attempts in the field, she was transferred to a French hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her partner, Dodi El Fayed, the son of a British Egyptian millionaire, and the driver of the car, Henry Paul, were also killed in the accident. Bodyguard Trevor Rees Jones, saved.
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9. The car drove at high speed, to escape the paparazzi who were following the couple. Despite the claims of their deaths following the photographers, the conclusions of the French investigators were that the accident was caused by the fact that the driver was drunk. Some of the paparazzi photographers who came to the scene photographed the injured at the scene of the accident and received severe criticism, but several years later they were acquitted of violating French privacy laws.
10. Princess Diana was an icon. Hearty, complex, human, and has an extraordinary style. The black, beautiful and revealing dress she wore immediately after the revelation of her husband’s affair was named the “revenge dress”.
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