Diana .. a princess who dazzles the world 25 years after her death

Princess Diana passed away in 1997 at the age of 36.

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On August 31, 1997, the paparazzi chased, for the last time, Princess Diana, and her image stuck forever in her mind when she died at the age of 36 in a traffic accident in Paris, and this image still embodies for some, 25 years after her death, an icon of beauty and humanity.

Penny Junor, a biographer of the British royal family, says that commemorating Diana "brings people back with their emotions to where they were when she died", and for Prince Charles, who divorced from Diana a year before her death, this memory represents "a return to the starting point." ».

The aristocratic young woman, Diana Spencer, married at the age of 20, to Prince Charles, who was 12 years her senior, in July 1981.

Their marriage in St Paul's Cathedral, which was watched by 750 million people on television and by some 600,000 people thronging the streets of London, has been likened to a fairytale.

However, their association did not last long, and the British yellow press followed the news of the scandals that permeated their union, which ended in divorce in 1996.

Diana Frances Spencer, born on July 1, 1961, came from an aristocratic family with ancient ties to the royal family.

As a child, she called Queen Elizabeth II "Aunt Lilibit", and would occasionally play with Princes Andrew and Edward at the royal residence at Sandringham.

Her parents' tumultuous divorce affected her, and she left school at the age of 16 without obtaining a degree.

She was shy, and was not very interested in academic studies, but she loved playing the piano and dancing.

In 1977, she spent a semester at a Swiss boarding school specializing in educating good manners, then returned to London, where she began working as a nursery school, until Charles began approaching her in 1980, after he was interested in Sarah, Diana's older sister.

After their marriage, Diana's world fame overshadowed her husband's.

She took advantage of her position to advocate for the neediest, to help AIDS and leprosy sufferers, and to get involved in urging the removal of anti-personnel mines.

But away from the spotlight, Diana was suffering from bulimia, or bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder, and suffers from her husband's lack of love and care for her, and the indifference of the rest of the royal family.

In 1992, months before her split from Charles, journalist Andrew Morton published her autobiography, which talks about the breakdown of her marriage, her struggles with bulimia, and her suicide attempts, based on the secrets Diana revealed.

At the end of 1995, Queen Elizabeth sent Charles and Diana a letter advising them to divorce.

Their divorce was officially announced on August 28, 1996, when Diana lost her royal title.

She fell in love with a Pakistani cardiologist named Hasnat Khan, but their relationship soon ended in June 1997, and she was later linked to the wealthy Egyptian Dodi Al-Fayed, but they were killed together in an accident on August 31, 1997 when their car crashed into a pole in Paris, while they were being chased by paparazzi.

The world cried Diana, millions of flowers were laid for her in front of Kensington Palace, and countless people lined the streets of London in her honor at her funeral.

Diana wept, and millions of flowers were laid for her in front of Kensington Palace.

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