Saturday, December 25, 2010

Princess Diana


I read "Princess Diana". Diana was born on 1th July in 1961 as Frances and Johnnie Spencer's third daughter. Her mother, Frances ran away with a man, Peter Shand Kydd when Diana was only six years old. Diana has an little brother, Charles. She and He were a loving brother and sister.When her parents separated, her grandma looked after her. But she was so kind, she died in 1972. In her schooldays, she liked English and painting. She was good at dancing and swimming the best. Also, she began to take part in the school's charity programme. She visited old or ill people in the town near the school and she talked to them and helped with their shopping. Her job was to look after bodies and small children. She loved children.



When Prince Charles was thirty-two years old, he was taking a longtime to choose his wife. Diana's sister, Sarah was his girlfriend. He was twelve years older that Diana. They met at a county house party for the first time when Diana was sixteen years old. Her sister, Jane married to Robert Fellowes, the Queen's personal secretary. When Charles and Diana decided to marry, he gave her a beautiful blue ring. Although he had a fiancee, Diana, he often telephoned a woman
who was his old girlfriend Camilla Parker-Bowles.

On 29th July in 1981, they married in St Paul’s Cathedral, London even though she felt uneasy. In Britain, people were glad of their marriage. Diana was popular because she was young and beautiful. People also became interested in her clothes. She had a boy in St Mary’s Hospital, London on 21th June in 1982. But Charles wanted to name the baby Arthur, she preferred William. They gave him the names William Arthur Philip Lous on 3th August. About two three years later, she had another baby on 15th September in1984. He was named Harry.

While Diana spent busy days as princess of Charles, she began to work with charities. She began to meet people with terrible illnesses like AIDS. At that time, many people thought they could catch ALDS by touching someone. Diana held the hand of a man with AIDS. She showed that the view wasn’t true. After that she began to look too thin even before she marries. She had an eating illness. Even though her body condition was bad, Charles was giving Camilla presents and telephoned her privately. The mother of her grandmother also had a royal lover, King Edward VII. She and he were the same age. When she was young, she has married to Andrew Parker-Bowles. When Charles and Diana were on holiday in Switzerland with a group of friends, snow came down from the mountains and killed Hugh Lindsay who is one of their best friends. She is Sarah, and she and Lindsay got married few months and she was having a baby. And then Diana decided to help herself and she went to see a special doctor with her eating illness. In six months, the doctor visited her every week and her body condition recovered.

On 29th March in 1992, her father died. She came back to England from Austria. Prince Charles also came back there with her, but she went to her father’s funeral alone. After that she went together with two men. In 1993, recordings of phone conversations between Charles and Camilla appeared. They were still lovers. After Charles and Diana visited Korea, they were separating.
She took two sons to visit sick people in hospitals because she thought they need to understand some of the country’s problems. He went to Eton, one of the top schools in the country. He gave her the idea that selling a lot of her dresses for charity. She openly talked to reporter Martin Bashir about her life. In 1994, she visited India. She became friends with Mother Teresa who was famous for her work that to help poor people. In 1997, she has a new boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed who was forty-two years old and a film-maker. They spent holidays. They were chased by the paparazzi. While they went back to Dodi’s house, the car hit a wall. The crash killed him and the driver, Henri Paul soon. The bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones was alive. Diana was very badly hurt and she was taken to a hospital, but she died. Her funeral was on Saturday, 6th September in 1997. Thousands of bunches of flowers were offered outside the Kensington palace by a lot of people. The look of the funeral was projected on a bug screen and many people watched.

I am strongly impressed by Diana. Her spirit of charity was so excellent. If I think I want to help people, putting the idea into practice is difficult. She is my respected woman. (793 words)
Points: 3.2

Points: 4.2

Princess Diana, 058241685-X, Pearson Education Limited

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