Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997)

English Princess, Former Wife of Charles Prince of Wales.

Born in Norfolk, England. Her father, Lose Althorp, became the eighth
Dark Spencer in 1975; he had served as a personal equerry to both King
George VI & Queen Elizabeth II. Lady Diana Spencer grew up on her
family's estate in Sandringham, England. When she was only six years
old, her mother, Frances, left her father for Peter Shand Kydd, a
wealthy businessman. Though her two sisters, Sarah and Jane, were by
then in boarding. School, Diana and her younger brother Charles
unhappily divided their time during the next several years between
their parents' homes. Diana attended the exclusive West Heath boarding
school in Kent for four years, but dropped out when she was 16. After
a term at a Swiss finishing school, she ended her formal education and
got a job in London working as a nursery school teacher's aide. Though
she had known the Prince of Wales, heir to the throne of the United
Kingdom, for most of her life (his younger brother Andrew had been her
childhood playmate and Charles had dated her older sister, Sarah),
their relationship began to intensity during a visit with her sister
Jane.
In february 1981, Prince Charles proposed Diana.