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Princess Diana
Love Heart Shaped Coin
This is a Silver Plated Coin to Commemorate Princess Diana
One side shows her shaking hands with an Aids Patient and the other side shows her walking through a minefield
Both side have Diana’s Famous Autograph
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Complete with air-tight acrylic coin holder
The coin is 40mm in diameter, weighs about  1 oz
In Excellent Condition
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The coin is 40mm in diameter, weighs about  1 oz 
Comes in air-tight acrylic coin holder
In Excellent Condition
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Diana, Princess of Wales
Princess of Wales (more)
Born Diana Frances Spencer
1 July 1961
Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Died 31 August 1997 (aged 36)
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
Burial 6 September 1997
Lake Round Oval, Althorp, Northamptonshire, England
Spouse Charles, Prince of Wales
(m. 1981; div. 1996)
Issue
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
House
Spencer (by birth)
Windsor (by marriage)
Father John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer
Mother Frances Shand Kydd
Signature Diana’s signature
Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and the mother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
Diana was born into the Spencer family, a family of British nobility, and she was the youngest daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Althorp. She grew up in Park House, situated on the Sandringham estate, and was educated in England and Switzerland. In 1975, after her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer, she became known as Lady Diana Spencer, a style she would retain until her marriage.
Diana came to prominence in February 1981 upon her engagement to Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II. Their wedding took place at St Paul’s Cathedral on 29 July 1981 and made her 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. Diana was involved with dozens of charities including London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, of which she was president from 1989. She also raised awareness and advocated ways to help people affected with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and mental illness.
Diana remained the object of worldwide media scrutiny during and after her marriage, which ended in divorce on 28 August 1996 following well-publicised extramarital affairs by both parties. Media attention and public mourning were extensive after her death in a car crash in a Paris tunnel on 31 August 1997 and subsequent televised funeral.
Early life
Diana Frances Spencer was born on 1 July 1961, in Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk.[1] She was the fourth of five children of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (1924–1992), and his first wife, Frances (née Roche; 1936–2004).[2] The Spencer family has been closely allied with the British royal family for several generations;[3] Diana’s grandmothers had served as ladies-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.[4] The Spencers were hoping for a boy to carry on the family line, and no name was chosen for a week, until they settled on Diana Frances, after her mother and after Lady Diana Spencer, a many-times-great-aunt who was also a prospective Princess of Wales.[5]
On 30 August 1961,[6] Diana was baptised at St. Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham.[5] She grew up with three siblings: Sarah, Jane, and Charles.[7] Her infant brother, John, died shortly after his birth one year before Diana was born.[8] The desire for an heir added strain to the Spencers’ marriage, and Lady Althorp was reportedly sent to Harley Street clinics in London to determine the cause of the “problem”.[5] The experience was described as “humiliating” by Diana’s younger brother, Charles: “It was a dreadful time for my parents and probably the root of their divorce because I don’t think they ever got over it.”[5] Diana grew up in Park House, situated on the Sandringham estate.[9] The Spencers leased the house from its owner, Queen Elizabeth II. The royal family frequently holidayed at the neighbouring Sandringham House, and Diana played with the Queen’s sons Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.[10]
Diana was seven years old when her parents divorced.[11] Her mother later began a relationship with Peter Shand Kydd and married him in 1969.[12] Diana lived with her mother in London during her parents’ separation in 1967, but during that year’s Christmas holidays, Lord Althorp ref to let Diana return to London with Lady Althorp. Shortly afterwards he won custody of Diana with support from his former mother-in-law, Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy.[13] In 1976, Lord Althorp married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth.[14] Diana’s relationship with her stepmother was particularly bad.[15] She resented Raine, whom she called a “bully”, and on one occasion Diana “pushed her down the stairs”.[15] She later described her childhood as “very unhappy” and “very unstable, the whole thing”.[16] Diana became known as Lady Diana after her father later inherited the title of Earl Spencer in 1975, at which point her father moved the entire family from Park House to Althorp, the Spencer seat in Northamptonshire.[17]
Education and career
Diana was initially home-schooled under the supervision of her governess, Gertrude Allen.[18] She began her formal education at Silfield Private School in Gayton, Norfolk, and moved to Riddlesworth Hall School, an all-girls boarding school near Thetford, when she was nine.[19] She joined her sisters at West Heath Girls’ School in Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1973.[20] She did not shine academically, failing her O-levels twice. Her outstanding community spirit was recognised with an award from West Heath.[21] She left West Heath when she was sixteen.[22] Her brother Charles recalls her as being quite shy up until that time.[23] She showed a talent for music as an accomplished pianist.[21] Diana also excelled in swimming and diving, and studied ballet and tap dance.[24]
After attending Institut Alpin Videmanette (a finishing school in Rougemont, Switzerland) for one term in 1978, Diana returned to London, where she shared her mother’s flat with two school friends.[25] In London, she took an advanced cooking course, but seldom cooked for her roommates. She took a series of low-paying jobs; she worked as a dance instructor for youth until a skiing accident ca her to miss three months of work.[26] She then found employment as a playgroup pre-school assistant, did some cleaning work for her sister Sarah and several of her friends, and acted as a hostess at parties. Diana spent time working as a nanny for the Robertsons, an American family living in London,[27] and worked as a nursery teacher’s assistant at the Young England School in Pimlico.[28] In July 1979, her mother bought her a flat at Coleherne Court in Earl’s Court as an 18th birthday present.[29] She lived there with three flatmates until 25 February 1981.[30]
Marriage
Lady Diana first met Charles, Prince of Wales, the Queen’s eldest son and heir apparent, when she was 16 in November 1977. He was then dating her older sister, Lady Sarah.[31][32] They were guests at a country weekend during the summer of 1980 when she watched him play polo and he took a serious interest in Diana as a potential bride. The relationship progressed when he invited her aboard the royal yacht Britannia for a sailing weekend to Cowes. This was followed by an invitation to Balmoral (the royal family’s Scottish residence) to meet his family one weekend in November 1980.[33][34] Lady Diana was well received by the Queen, the Queen Mother and the Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Charles subsequently courted Diana in London. The Prince proposed on 6 February 1981, and Lady Diana accepted, but their engagement was kept secret for the next few weeks.[30]
Engagement and wedding
Further information: Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer and Wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer
The wedding of Charles and Diana commemorated on a 1981 British Crown
Their engagement became official on 24 February 1981.[18] Diana selected a large engagement ring that consisted of 14 solitaire diamonds surrounding a 12-carat oval blue Ceylon sapphire set in 18-carat white gold,[18] which was similar to her mother’s engagement ring. The ring was made by the Crown jewellers Garrard. In 2010, it became the engagement ring of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.[35] The Queen Mother gave Diana a sapphire and diamond brooch as an engagement present.[36]
Following the engagement, Diana left her occupation as a kindergarten assistant and lived for a short period at Clarence House, which was the home of the Queen Mother.[37] She then lived at Buckingham Palace until the wedding.[37] Diana was the first Englishwoman to marry the first in line to the throne since Anne Hyde over 300 years earlier, and she was also the first royal bride to have a paying job before her engagement.[21][18] She made her first public appearance with Prince Charles in a charity ball in March 1981 at Goldsmiths’ Hall, where she met Grace Kelly, who was the Princess of Monaco.[37]
Twenty-year-old Diana became Princess of Wales when she married the Prince of Wales on 29 July 1981 at St Paul’s Cathedral, which offered more seating than Westminster Abbey, a church that was generally for royal nuptials.[21][18] The service was widely described as a “fairytale wedding” and was watched by a global television audience of 750 million people while 600,000 spectators lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the couple en route to the ceremony.[18][38] At the altar, Diana inadvertently reversed the order of Charles’s first two names, saying “Philip Charles” Arthur George instead.[38] She did not say that she would “obey” him; that traditional vow was left out at the couple’s request, which ca some comment at the time.[39] Diana wore a dress valued at £9,000 with a 25-foot (7.62-metre) train.[40]
After she became Princess of Wales, Diana automatically acquired rank as the third-highest female in the United Kingdom Order of Precedence (after the Queen and the Queen Mother), and was fifth or sixth in the orders of precedence of her other realms, following the Queen, the relevant viceroy, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother, and the Prince of Wales. Within a few years of the wedding, the Queen extended Diana visible tokens of membership in the royal family; she lent the Princess the Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara,[41][42] and granted her the badge of the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II.[43]
Children
The couple had residences at Kensington Palace and Highgrove House, near Tetbury. On 5 November 1981, the Princess’s pregnancy was officially announced.[44] In January 1982—twelve weeks into the pregnancy—Diana fell down a staircase at Sandringham, and the royal gynaecologist Sir George Pinker was summoned from London. He found that although she had suffered severe bruising, the foetus was uninjured.[45] Diana later confessed that she had intentionally thrown herself down the stairs because she was feeling “so inadequate”.[46] In February 1982, pictures of a pregnant Diana in bikini while holidaying was published in the media. The Queen subsequently released a statement and called it “the blackest day in the history of British journalism.”[47] On 21 June 1982, the Princess gave birth to the couple’s first son, Prince William.[48] Amidst some media criticism, she decided to take William—who was still a baby—on her first major tours of Australia and New Zealand, and the decision was popularly applauded. By her own admission, the Princess of Wales had not initially intended to take William until Malcolm Fraser, the Australian prime minister, made the suggestion.[49]
A second son, Prince Harry, was born on 15 September 1984.[50] The Princess said she and the Prince were closest during her pregnancy with Harry. She was aware that their second child was a boy, but did not share the knowledge with anyone else, including the Prince of Wales.[51]
Diana gave her sons wider experiences than was usual for royal children.[18][52][53] She rarely deferred to the Prince or to the royal family, and was often intransigent when it came to the children. She chose their first given names, dismissed a royal family nanny and engaged one of her own choosing, selected their schools and clothing, planned their outings, and took them to school herself as often as her schedule permitted. She also organised her public duties around their timetables.[54]
Problems and separation
The Prince and Princess of Wales after the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1986
Five years into the marriage, the couple’s incompatibility and age difference of almost 13 years became visible and damaging.[55] Charles resumed his relationship with his former girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles, and Diana later began an affair with Major James Hewitt, the family’s former riding instructor. The media speculated that Hewitt, not Charles, was Harry’s father based on the alleged physical similarity between Hewitt and Harry, but Harry was born before the affair began.[51][56] In 1989, Diana was at a birthday party for Camilla’s sister, Annabel Elliot, when she confronted Camilla about her and Charles’s extramarital affair.[57][58] These affairs were later exposed in May 1992 with the publication of Andrew Morton’s book, Diana: Her True Story.[59][60] The book, which also revealed the Princess’s allegedly suicidal unhappiness, ca a media storm. Morton later revealed that in 1991 he had also conducted a secret interview with Diana in which she had talked about her marital issues and difficulties.[61] The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh hosted a meeting between Charles and Diana and unsuccessfully tried to effect a reconciliation.[62] Philip wrote to Diana and expressed his disappointment at the extra-marital affairs of both her and Charles; he asked her to examine their behaviour from the other’s point of view.[63] The Duke was direct and Diana was sensitive.[64] She found the letters hard to take, but nevertheless, she appreciated that he was acting with good intent.[65]
During 1992 and 1993, leaked tapes of telephone conversations reflected negatively on both the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tape recordings of the Princess and James Gilbey were made public in August 1992,[66] and transcripts were published the same month.[18] The article, “Squidgygate”, was followed in November 1992 by the leaked “Camillagate” tapes, intimate exchanges between the Prince and Camilla, published in the tabloids.[67][68] In December 1992, Prime Minister John Major announced the couple’s “amicable separation” to the House of Commons.[69]
Between 1992 and 1993, Diana hired voice coach Peter Settelen to help her develop her public speaking voice.[70] In a videotape recorded by Settelen in 1992, Diana admitted that in 1984 through to 1986, she had been “deeply in love with someone who worked in this environment.”[71][72] It is thought she was referring to Barry Mannakee,[73] who was transferred to the Diplomatic Protection Squad in 1986 after his managers had determined that his relationship with Diana had been inappropriate.[72][74] Diana said in the tape that Mannakee had been “chucked out” from his role as her bodyguard following suspicion that the two were having an affair.[71] Penny Junor suggested in her 1998 book that the Princess was in a romantic relationship with Mannakee.[75] Diana’s friends dismissed the claim as absurd.[75] However, in the subsequently released tapes Diana stated that she had feelings for that “someone”, saying that “I was quite happy to give all this up [and] just to go off and live with him”. She described him as “the greatest friend [she’s] ever had”, though she denied any sexual relationship with him.[76] She also spoke bitterly of her husband saying that “[He] made me feel so inadequate in every possible way, that each time I came up for air he pushed me down again.”[77] Charles’s aunt, Princess Margaret, burned “highly personal” letters that Diana had written to the Queen Mother in 1993. Biographer William Shawcross considered Margaret’s action to be “understandable” as she was “protecting her mother and other members of the family”, but “regrettable from a historical viewpoint”.[78]
Although she blamed Camilla Parker Bowles for her marital troubles, Diana began to believe that her husband had also been involved in other affairs. In October 1993, the Princess wrote to her butler Paul Burrell, telling him that she believed her husband was now in love with his personal assistant Tiggy Legge-Bourke—who was also his sons’ former nanny—and was planning to have her killed “to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy”.[79][80] Legge-Bourke had been hired by the Prince as a young companion for his sons while they were in his care, and the Princess was resentful of Legge-Bourke and her relationship with the young princes.[81] Prince Charles sought public understanding via a televised interview with Jonathan Dimbleby on 29 June 1994. In the interview, he said that he had rekindled his relationship with Camilla in 1986 only after his marriage to the Princess had “irretrievably broken down”.[82][83][84]
In the same year, the News of the World claimed that Diana had made over 300 phone calls to the married art dealer Oliver Hoare.[85][86] These calls were proven to have been made from both her Kensington Palace apartment and from the phone box just outside the palace. According to Hoare’s obituary, there was little doubt that she had been in a relationship with him.[87] However, the Princess denied any romantic relationship with Hoare, whom she described as a friend, and said that “a young boy” was the source of the nuisance calls made to Hoare.[88][89] She was also linked by the press to rugby union player Will Carling[90][91] and private equity investor Theodore J. Forstmann,[92][93] yet these claims were neither confirmed nor proven.[94][95]
Divorce
Journalist Martin Bashir interviewed Diana for the BBC current affairs show Panorama. The interview was broadcast on 20 November 1995.[96] The Princess discussed her and her husband’s extramarital affairs.[97] Referring to Charles’s relationship with Camilla, she said: “Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.” She also expressed doubt about her husband’s suitability for kingship.[96] Authors Tina Brown, Sally Bedell Smith and Sarah Bradford support Diana’s admission in the interview that she had suffered from depression, “rampant bulimia” and had engaged numerous times in the act of self mutilation; the show’s transcript records Diana confirming many of her mental health problems, including that she had “hurt (her) arms and legs”.[96] The combination of illnesses from which Diana herself said that she suffered resulted in some of her biographers opining that she had a borderline personality disorder.[98][99]
The interview proved to be the tipping point. On 20 December, Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen had sent letters to the Prince and Princess of Wales, advising them to divorce.[100][101] The Queen’s move was backed by the Prime Minister and by senior Privy Counsellors, and, according to the BBC, was decided after two weeks of talks.[102] Charles formally agreed to the divorce in a written statement soon after.[100] In February 1996, the Princess announced her agreement after negotiations with the Prince and representatives of the Queen,[103] irritating Buckingham Palace by issuing her own announcement of the divorce agreement and its terms. In July 1996, the couple agreed on the terms of their divorce.[104] This followed shortly after the Princess’s accusation that the Prince’s personal assistant Tiggy Legge-Bourke had aborted the Prince’s child, after which Legge-Bourke instructed her attorney Peter Carter-Ruck to demand an apology.[105][106] Diana’s secretary Patrick Jephson resigned shortly before the story broke, later writing that the Princess had “exulted in accusing Legge-Bourke of having had an abortion”.[107][108]
The divorce was finalised on 28 August 1996.[109] Diana received a lump sum settlement of £17 million as well as £400,000 per year. The couple signed a confidentiality agreement that prohibited them from discussing the details of the divorce or of their married life.[110][104] Days before, letters patent were issued with general rules to regulate royal titles after divorce. Diana lost the style “Her Royal Highness” and instead was styled Diana, Princess of Wales. As the mother of the prince expected to one day ascend to the throne, she continued to be regarded as a member of the royal family and was accorded the same precedence she enjoyed during her marriage.[111] The Queen reportedly wanted to let Diana continue to use the style of Royal Highness after her divorce, but Charles had insisted on removing it.[104] Prince William was reported to have reassured his mother: “Don’t worry, Mummy, I will give it back to you one day when I am King.”[112] Almost a year before, according to Tina Brown, the Duke of Edinburgh had warned the Princess of Wales: “If you don’t behave, my girl, we’ll take your title away.” She is said to have replied: “My title is a lot older than yours, Philip.”[113] Diana and her mother quarrelled in May 1997 after she told Hello! magazine that Diana was happy to lose the royal style. They were reportedly not on speaking terms with each other by the time of Diana’s death.[114] By contrast, Diana’s relationship with her estranged stepmother reportedly improved in the years before her death in 1997.[115][116]
Public life
Public appearances
Charles and Diana in Woombye, 1983
Following her engagement to Prince Charles, Diana made her first official public appearance in March 1981 in a charity event at Goldsmiths’ Hall.[117][118] In October 1981, the Prince and Princess visited Wales.[21][119] Diana attended the State Opening of Parliament for the first time on 4 November 1981.[120] Her first solo engagement was a visit to Regent Street on 18 November 1981 to switch on the Christmas lights.[121] She attended the Trooping the Colour for the first time in June 1982, making her appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace afterwards. The Princess made her inaugural overseas tour in September 1982, to attend the state funeral of Grace, Princess of Monaco.[21] Also in 1982, Diana accompanied the Prince of Wales to the Netherlands and was created a Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown by Queen Beatrix.[122] In 1983, she accompanied the Prince on a tour of Australia and New Zealand with Prince William, where they met with representatives of the Māori people.[21] Their visit to Canada in June and July 1983 included a trip to Edmonton to open the 1983 Summer Universiade and a stop in Newfoundland to commemorate the 400th anniversary of that island’s acquisition by the Crown.[123]
In February 1984, Diana was the patron of London City Ballet when she travelled to Norway on her own to attend a performance organised by the company.[21] In April 1985, the Prince and Princess of Wales visited Italy, and were later joined by Princes William and Harry.[21] They met with President Alessandro Pertini. Their visit to the Holy See included a private audience with Pope John Paul II.[124] In November 1985, the couple visited the United States,[21] meeting President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan at the White House. Diana had a busy year in 1986. She embarked with the Prince of Wales on a tour of Japan, Indonesia, Spain, and Canada.[123] In Canada they visited Expo 86,[123] where Diana fainted in the California Pavilion.[125][126] In 1988, the Prince and Princess of Wales visited Thailand and toured Australia for the bicentenary celebrations.[21][127] In February 1989, she spent a few days in New York as a solo visit. During a tour of Harlem Hospital Center, she made a profound impact on the public by spontaneously hugging a seven-year-old child with AIDS.[128]
Charles and Diana with the US Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife Marilyn following the enthronement of Emperor Akihito, 1990
In March 1990, she and the Prince of Wales toured Nigeria and Cameroon.[129] The President of Cameroon hosted an official dinner to welcome them in Yaoundé.[129] Highlights of the tour included visits by the Princess of Wales to hospitals and projects focusing on women’s development.[129] In May 1990, they visited Hungary for four days.[128][130] It was the first visit by members of the royal family to “a former Warsaw Pact country”.[128] They attended a dinner hosted by President Árpád Göncz and viewed a fashion display at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest.[130] Peto Institute was among the places that were visited by the Princess, and she presented its director with an honorary OBE.[128] In November 1990, the royal couple went to Japan to attend the enthronement of Emperor Akihito.[21][131]
In her desire to play an encouraging role during the Gulf War, the Princess of Wales visited Germany in December 1990 to meet with the families of soldiers.[128] She subsequently travelled to Germany in January 1991 to visit RAF Bruggen, and later wrote an encouraging letter which was published in Soldier, Navy News and RAF News.[128] In 1991, the Prince and Princess of Wales visited Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where they presented the university with a replica of their royal charter.[132] In September 1991, the Princess visited Pakistan on a solo trip, and went to Brazil with Charles.[133] During the Brazilian tour, Diana paid visits to organisations that battled homelessness among street children.[133] Her final trips with Charles were to India and South Korea in 1992.[21] She visited Mother Teresa’s hospice in Kolkata, India, in 1992.[134] The two women met each other again that year[135] and developed a personal relationship.[134] It was also during the Indian tour that pictures of Diana alone in front of the Taj Mahal made headlines.[136][137]
In December 1993, she announced that she would withdraw from public life, but

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