In pictures: It was Princess Lady Diana

25 years ago, on August 31, 1997, Princess Diana died in a tragic car accident in the tunnel under the Alma bridge in Paris.

From princess to loving mother, through her fights for great causes in the world,

back in pictures on the life of Diana Spencer.

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• Diana Spencer was born in Sandringham, in the east of England, on July 1, 1961.

• 20 years later, on July 29, 1981, she married Prince Charles, heir son to the English crown, and became the Princess of Wales.

• On June 21, 1982, she gave birth to William.

  The prince plays here with his mother during the Christmas period, December 22, 1982.

• On September 15, 1984, a second child with the first name Harry was born.

• In 1987, in London, Princess Lady Diana inaugurated the country's first medical center dedicated to AIDS patients.

  On April 9, she voluntarily shakes the hand of a patient with the virus in front of the media.

  A photo will make the headlines the next day, and the princess will face the reproaches of the royal family for her lack of decorum on this very sensitive subject at the time.

  Here, July 17, 1991, with a patient.

• Rumors of difficulties in her marriage to Prince Charles appear in the early 1990s. On December 9, 1992, she separated from Prince Charles.

• On December 21, 1995, following a shock interview given to the BBC channel on November 20, where Princess Diana confided in her infidelities and those of Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II wrote a letter urging the two spouses to divorce.

  The divorce will be pronounced on August 28, 1996.

• Lady Diana is keen to keep her role as a loving pocket mother to her two sons.

  She accompanies her children on a winter sports holiday in Austria on March 25, 1994.

• On January 15, 1997, she traveled to Angola to lead a campaign against anti-personnel mines.

  This is his last big fight.

• After a hidden relationship with a Pakistani surgeon named Hasnat Khan, Diana was spotted on the yacht of her new companion Dodi Al Fayed, in Portofino (Italy), on August 24, 1997. The couple is often harassed by the paparazzi.

• On August 31, 1997, the couple died in a tragic car accident in the tunnel under the Alma bridge in Paris.

  Diana's death is front page news in Britain.

• France decides to give the honors of the State to Lady Diana when she no longer has her title of royal highness since her divorce from Prince Charles.

  During the lifting of the body at the Pitié Salpêtrière hospital, the President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, and Prince Charles cross the guard of honor made by the Republican Guard following the coffin of the deceased. 

• Faced with the extent of the tributes paid to Princess Diana by the British people, the royal family, which was slow to react, decided to organize a royal funeral.

  Here, flowers placed in front of the door of Althorp House, the historic home of the Spencer family, in Northamptonshire (England), September 2, 1997. 

• On September 6, 1997, the funeral of Diana Spencer took place in the royal tradition.

  Princes Philip and William, Charles Spencer, Diana's brother, and Princes Harry and Charles follow the coffin of Lady Diana who has become a "princess of the people" according to Prime Minister Tony Blair. 

• We measure the impact of Princess Diana's death on public opinion in the light of the front pages of the press in September 1997. 

• From princess to loving mother, through her fights for great causes, while being a modern woman, the tragic story of Lady Di is now inscribed in the collective memory.

  25 years after her death, she is still present in people's hearts.

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