father house death_date mother birth_place death_place burial_date burial_place religion title birth_date issue signature article_title education name
john spencer , 8th earl spencer house windsor -lrb- by marriage -rrb- of spencer -lrb- by birth -rrb- house of 31 august 1997 frances shand kydd park house , sandringham , norfolk , england pitié-salpêtrière hospital , paris , france 6 september 1997 althorp , northamptonshire , england church of england princess -rrb- of wales ; duchess of rothesay -lrb- more 1 july 1961 prince wales william , duke of cambridge prince henry of lady diana signature-vect . svg diana , princess of wales
 riddlesworth alpin videmanette hall school west heath 's girls school institut diana
diana , princess of wales

diana , princess of wales -lrb- diana frances ; `` née '' spencer ; 1 july 1961 -- 31 august 1997 -rrb- , was the first wife of charles , prince of wales , who is the eldest child and heir apparent of queen elizabeth ii .
diana was born into a family of british nobility with royal ancestry as `` the honourable '' diana spencer .
she was the fourth child and third daughter of john spencer , 8th earl spencer and the honourable frances shand kydd .
she grew up in park house , which is situated on the queen 's sandringham estate , and was educated in england and switzerland .
in 1975 she became `` lady '' diana spencer , after her father inherited the title of earl spencer .
her wedding to the prince of wales on 29 july 1981 was held at st paul 's cathedral and reached a global television audience of over 750 million .
while married , diana bore the titles princess of wales , duchess of cornwall , duchess of rothesay and countess of chester .
the marriage produced two sons , the princes william and harry , who were then respectively second and third in the line of succession to the british throne .
as princess of wales , diana undertook royal duties on behalf of the queen and represented her at functions overseas .
she was celebrated for her charity work and for her support of the international campaign to ban landmines .
from 1989 , she was president of london 's great ormond street hospital for children , in addition to dozens of other charities .
diana remained the object of worldwide media scrutiny during and after her marriage , which ended in divorce on 28 august 1996 .
media attention and public mourning were very extensive after her death in a car crash in paris on 31 august 1997 and subsequent televised funeral .
