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Royal and humanitarian

Diana, Princess of Wales

Best known for Becoming the Princess of Wales, global humanitarian work, and redefining modern celebrity style

Born
1961
From
British
Working since
1981
Also known as
Lady Diana Spencer, The People's Princess, Lady Di

Long before 24-hour feeds ruled our lives, Diana wrote the entire playbook on modern fame. She walked into royal life as a nineteen-year-old assistant with feathered blonde hair and walked out as the most famous woman on Earth. From that fairytale 1981 wedding with the twenty-five-foot train to shaking hands with AIDS patients without gloves, she made the world stop and look.

Let's be honest: her personal life was front-page drama, but she knew exactly how to turn the cameras back on the causes she cared about. That little black dress in 1994 said everything without a single word. Decades on, everyone is still chasing her style and the rules she broke.

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Princess Diana in brief

  • —Over 750 million people worldwide tuned in to watch her 1981 royal wedding.
  • —Broke royal taboos in 1987 by shaking hands with an AIDS patient barehanded.
  • —Walked across an active minefield in Angola to demand a global landmine ban.
  • —Her 1994 black cocktail dress practically invented the celebrity 'revenge look'.
  • —Auctioned seventy-nine of her most famous evening gowns in 1997 for charity.

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