Diana
Frances
"Diana, Princess of Wales"
Mountbatten-Windsor
formerly Spencer
Born in Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Edward John Spencer LVO
and Frances Ruth (Roche) Shand Kydd
Wife of
[private husband (1940s - unknown)]
Mother of
Prince William (Windsor) Mountbatten-Windsor KG KT PC and Prince Harry (Windsor) Mountbatten-Windsor KCVO ADC
Died
at age 36
in Hôspital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris XIII, Paris, France
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Biography
Diana (Spencer) Mountbatten-Windsor is a member of the House of Windsor.
Diana (Spencer) Mountbatten-Windsor is Notable.
Diana, Princess of Wales, was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. She was born on 1 July 1961, in Sandringham, Norfolk, the daughter of Edward, 8th Earl Spencer and Hon Frances Roche.
Pedigree:
The ancestry of Diana's father Edward, 8th Earl Spencer, included English and Irish lines. Edward traced his ancestry to Charles II (via his son Henry Fitzroy, b.1663) and also Charles' younger brother James II (via his daughter Henrietta FitzJames, b.1667).
On the maternal side, Diana had a more varied ancestry. Her maternal grandmother Ruth Sylvia Gill, a trusted staff member of the British royal family for decades, was almost entirely Scottish going back many centuries. Diana's maternal grandfather, the Harvard-educated Edmond Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, descended paternally from the Roche family of County Cork, Ireland, while his mother, Frances Eleanor Work (Diana's great-grandmother) was born and died in New York, of a family which had, for the most part, been present in North America since the 1600s.
Marriage:
Diana was to become one of the most famous women in the world. On 29 July 1981, at age 20, she married Charles and became the Princess of Wales. While married, her full title was Her Royal Highness The Princess Charles Philip Arthur George, Princess of Wales and Countess of Chester, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Carrick, Baroness of Renfrew, Lady of the Isles, Princess of Scotland.
Death:
Diana, Princess of Wales died on 31 August 1997, when she was fatally injured in a car crash in Paris, France. The enormous outpouring of grief, on a global scale [1], when her life was cut short was attributed to the love she showed people in desperate need, through her fearless work for those with AIDS and casualties of land mines (a United Nations initiative), as well as her charity work for cancer and leprosy, and her devotion to her children, William and Harry.
The WikiTree coding for Living Notables does not show spouses, which is why King Charles appears as 'private husband'.
Sources
- Roberts, Gary B., and William A. Reitwiesner. American ancestors and cousins of the Princess of Wales: the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Virginia forebears, near relatives, and notable distant kinsmen, through her American great-grandmother, of Lady Diana Frances Spencer, now Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Baltimore: Genealog. Publ. Co., 1984. Print.
See also:
- Wikipedia: Diana, Princess of Wales
- Wikidata: Item Q9685, en:Wikipedia
- FamilySearch Person: L5XN-6LV
- The Peerage: Diana Spencer
- Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
Find A Grave: Memorial #1888 (accessed 29 July 2024)
Memorial page for Diana Princess of Wales (1 Jul 1961-31 Aug 1997), citing Spencer Estate Grounds, Althorp, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England (plot: Island on the Lake Oval); Maintained by Find a Grave.
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edited by Emmy (Dunham) Frost
Incidentally you are my 12th cousin once removed, but I'm not famous.
Many thanks, Jo, England Project Managed Profiles team coordinator
I believe the full name as you have it now is confusing and in need of improving. If I may suggest, Prefix;Lady, Proper first name; Diana , Preferred first name; left blank, Nick name; Princess Di, Middle name; Frances, Last name at birth; Spencer, Current last name; Princess of Wales, Other last name; of the House of Windsor.