Diana Spencer-Princess of Wales

  What makes this plausible, supposedly, is the "fact" that there was no postmortem examination of Diana's body — which is patently false. A full postmortem exam was conducted on August 31 by Home Office pathologist Dr. Robert Chapman as soon as Diana's remains were returned to England. If the point of this plot was for Diana to escape into hiding alive and unharmed, something went horribly wrong between the planning and the execution.

• Investigators: 'This was a tragic accident'.

  It's hard to imagine a government inquiry more thorough than the 900-page Operation Paget, supervised by Lord Stevens, the former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, at a cost of £4 million. Investigators not only checked each element of the predominant conspiracy theory — the one backed by Mohamed Al Fayed — against all available evidence and testimony, but incorporated Fayed's own research in their output. Their findings were unambiguous:

  "Our conclusion is that, on all the evidence available at this time, there was no conspiracy to murder any of the occupants of the car. This was a tragic accident."

  There are those who remain unconvinced. Foremost is Mohamed Al Fayed, who has dismissed the report as "garbage" and derided Lord Stevens as "a tool for the establishment and the royal family and intelligence." He continues to insist that pertinent facts were ignored. Other dissenters partake of the general mistrust of government which seems to have become a permanent feature of the post-twentieth-century zeitgeist. How can we believe the results of the inquiry, they ask, when it was conducted by officials of the same government that perpetrated the crime? Still others, unrecovered from the shock of Diana's untimely passing, continue to find it impossible to accept the haphazardness of the event.

  It was to all of these factions and to those who simply grieve the loss of the "people's princess" to this day, that Lord Stevens addressed these final words:

  "Three people tragically lost their lives in the accident and one was seriously injured. Many more have suffered from the intense scrutiny, speculation and misinformed judgements in the years that have followed. I very much hope that all the work we have done and the publication of this report will help to bring some closure to all who continue to mourn the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Al Fayed, and Henri Paul" [10].

  On April 7, 2008 the verdict of the coroner's inquest jury was announced: Diana's "unlawful death" was caused by the recklessness of limo driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi pursuing Diana and Dodi Al Fayed through the streets of Paris. 
 

  3.3 Charities and patronage 

   Throughout her short life, Diana, Princess of Wales undertook hundreds of engagements on behalf of charities.

   During her marriage, The Princess was President or Patron of over 100 charities.

   The Princess did much to publicise work on behalf of homeless and also disabled people, children and people with HIV/AIDS.

   Following her divorce from The Prince of Wales in 1996, The Princess remained Patron of Centrepoint (homeless charity), English National Ballet, Leprosy Mission and National Aids Trust.

   The Princess was also President of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and of the Royal Marsden Hospital.

   In the year before her death, aged 36, the Princess was an active campaigner for a ban on the manufacture and use of land mines.

   In January 1997, she visited Angola as part of her campaign. In June, the Princess spoke at the landmines conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London, and this was followed by a visit to Washington DC in the United States to promote the American Red Cross landmines campaign (separately, she also met Mother Teresa in the Bronx, New York).

   The Princess's last public engagements included her visit to Bosnia from 7 to 10 August, when she visited landmine projects in Travnic, Sarajevo and Zenezica. 
In 2007 Prince William and Prince Harry organised Concert for Diana, a unique tribute to their mother held at Wembley Stadium.

   The concert, held on 1 July, what would have been The Princess's 46th birthday, was held in front of a 62,000 crowd in the stadium and watched on television by millions more people around the world.

   Although the event was first and foremost a tribute concert, both Prince William and Prince Harry were keen that any proceeds should be shared among the eight charities which they had selected to be beneficiaries of at least £150,000. 
The charities to benefit included Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, which was founded after The Princess’s death; Sentebale, the Lesotho children’s charity which Prince Harry founded in memory of his mother; and the six organisations of which the Princess was Patron at the time of her death: the Royal Marsden and Great Ormond Street Hospitals, Centrepoint (of which Prince William is now Patron), The Leprosy Mission, The National AIDS Trust and English National Ballet, who also performed at the concert. 

   Diana Spencer was a wonderful woman. Although she died so early (at the age of 36) she had done even more than most people did for the whole of their lives. She always tried to help people and did it from the bottom of her heart. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  Conclusion 

  The main aim of the produced course paper on the topic «Diana Spencer –Princess of Wales», which was to study and describe the life of people’s favourite Princess, was achieved. In the progress of work we found out that she was a kind woman. Hundreds of people talked about Diana's kindnesses. She liked ordinary people, though she was rich and had many rich friends. Wherever she was, she was always ready to give a hand. Diana was devoted to the sick and the poor. She visited hospitals for people with AIDS and for lepers and wasn't afraid to touch them, talk to them, listen to them.

  She worked on children's charities, and had teamed up with Hillary Clinton in an effort to ban landmines. And it's not only money that she wanted to give people. She wanted to give them a part of her soul, to make them happy because she was unhappy herself. She wanted to give them love, because she needed love herself.

    Princess Diana was a great woman who did great things for the world. Sue Nieober said, "She showed the world that people can overcome their fears and differences and do great things." Tony Blair said, "In her brief life, Diana pursued a different title, and there is no doubt she succeeded in her quest. She was the people's princess and that is how she will remain in our hearts and memory forever".

    Summing it up, it should be said that Diana will be remembered as an inspirational woman who once said she wanted to be known as a ‘Queen of Hearts’. Perhaps in death that is exactly what she has become.  
 
 
 
 
 
 

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