“Princess Diana” by Cherry Gilchrist is the best-selling novel nowadays. This book is life story of the most famous and beloved Princess Diana.
The story is set in England and tells us the way of becoming the Queen of Hearts.
The Spencers are very old English family. They became rich a long time ago as sheep farmers, and the family goes back to King Charles 2 and King James 2 of England. They have been friends and helpers of the Royal Family for hundreds of years.
The house they lived in then, Park House, was near the Queen`s house at Sandringham, so Diana grew up almost ‘next door’ to the Royal Family. Diana often visited them when she was a little girl.
In February 1981, the news finally came out that Prince Charles was getting married – to Lady Diana Spencer.
Diana grew up with the Royal Family, but for a long time she didn’t really know Charles. There are a lot of families in the royal circle, and also Charles was twelve years older than her. He was already a young man when she was still a child. But when Diana was sixteen, they met at a country house party. She was only a schoolgirl, and Charles was more interested in his dog and his sport than in her. But from that time, Diana put a photo of Charles by her bad.
But not everything was so perfect. On the center of the fairy-tale there was a black shadow. When Charles asked Diana to marry him, something strange happened. She suddenly felt, deep inside, that she would never be a Queen. She also knew that she would have a difficult job as Charles`s wife.
But just before the wedding she became seriously worried. She suddenly understood that Charles`s old girlfriend, Camilla Parker-Bowles, was still important to him.
Then Diana became a mother too. Before the baby was born, she felt sick a lot of the time. But she was healthy, and on 21 June 1982 William was born. Soon another baby was coming, and on 15 September 1984 Prince Harry was born.
she looked after her boys. She often played with them and helped them with their early lessons.
Sometimes she chose bravely – a low-cut, short black dress, for example. But she could also look like perfect ‘English rose’ in a pink, well-cut suit, or a long white dance dress. With her long legs, fair hair and wonderful smile, she could look good in almost anything.
she was beginning to work with charities now too, which quickly became one of the most important things in her life. In 1982, the newspapers reported that Diana was now working with five charities. By the time that she was 24, she was working with eighteen. She began to visit people in hospital. She wasn’t afraid to meet people who were dying. And she began to meet people with terrible illnesses like AIDS. A lot of people were frightened that you could catch AIDS by touching someone, Diana held the hand of a man with AIDS to show that this wasn`t true.
She also learnt to give her love to the poor and ill people that she met though her charity work. She had a special touch. When she visited people in hospital, a hug or a kiss from Diana seemed to help them greatly. Sometimes she continued to visit people for a long time until they were better. She often wrote them kind letters later. A lot of her charity work was with children, and she was always happy and natural with them.
In public they were still husband and wife but in private they were sleeping in separate bedrooms. Something very special happened in summer 1997. She had a new boyfriend. This was Dodi Al Fayed, a film-maker, who was 42. The Al Fayed are family from Egypt but they live in England. They are very rich.
On 21 August Diana flew to France to start a holiday with Dodi. By now, they were deeply in love. The paparazzi knew Diana and Dodi were now in Paris and were following them everywhere.
They planned to eat dinner at a restaurant in the city center, but decided that it wasn’t safe there. At last, they left the hotel by the back door to go back to Dodi`s house. They were trying to escape, and sent off another car from the front. Some of paparazzi saw as they drove off in their special Mercedes.
The car was travelling very fast – at over 160 km at hour. It hit a wall. The crash killed Dodi and the driver at once. Diana was still alive but she was badly hurt.
They took her to hospital, where doctors tried to save her life. But it wasn’t good. During the week newspapers, television and radio were full of Diana`s sad story. People cried and left bunches of flowers for her. By the middle of the first day, there were over a thousand bunches outside Kensington Palace. By the end of the week it was like a sea of flowers there.
Diana`s life is over, but her story is not. The way that she lived and died will change many things. Her life showed a new road for the Royal Family to take. She showed them a way to be nearer to British people and to help with real problems in the modern world. After her death «Грейт Ормоннд Стрит Хоспитал», «Сентропойнт» continue their existence. She remained in our heart and her life was not vain. When she died, we all remembered that life can be very short. Every one of us has to do our best with the time that we have. As once Diana said “It is important to show love”. We need to remember this too.
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