Expository Essay

Diana Spencer in many people’s eyes was only a Princess, but in reality, she was so much more. Diana was a mother, a sister, a friend and overall a great woman. When Diana was growing, she had a tough life. Throughout the years, people came to know Diana as a kind thoughtful woman, who always thought of others. In many ways this is the truth, Diana usually put her sons, her husband and the public ahead of herself. On the rare occasion, Diana would put her self ahead of others, even her sons. One time was in the nineties when a biography about her was published, the biography told all the secrets, about her marriage and about how bad it really was. After it was published, Diana and Charles got divorced. Overall Diana was a great princess with flaws, like every one.

From birth Diana had, had a complicated life. When she was born, her parents had desperately hoped for a boy to inherit the title “Earl of Althorp.” When Diana was born her parents were disappointed because they already had two daughters. When Diana was six her parents got divorced, it was especially rough on Diana. When she was young, her parents never gave her the love and care that she craved. When she was older, her father remarried a woman she hated, throughout her youth and into her adulthood. When she married Charles, she expected happiness beyond happiness, but she received nothing close, she was actually very unhappy, so unhappy she actually attempted suicide several times and became bulimic. The only time Diana was actually happy, was when she was with her sons, or when she was doing her charity work. People always suspected Diana to be a peaceful happy woman, but Diana was completely opposite of that.

Diana was a great woman who died excessively young. In her life, she gave to many charities. One of her greatest charitable contributions was her time; she donated her time visiting hospices, hospitals, old folk’s homes, and institutions. Diana made people very happy and grateful when she visited. On occasions, she’d even take her sons to visit the people. She thought her sons needed to know the world outside the palace. Besides her local charities, she’d go to foreign countries on behalf of Red Cross. After her divorce, she donated all her Royal clothing to a charity. Diana loved to do charity work; it was one thing she enjoyed most in her life.

Diana and Charles marriage was very unhappy. Diana was always sacrificing what she wanted to make Charles content. Charles wasn’t a supportive husband, he constantly criticized Diana. One of the main causes of their divorce was Camilla Parker-Bowles, Charles' old girlfriend. Charles would tell everything to Camilla. Many people thought Diana and Charles had a great marriage, until the end, but in reality, their marriage was never good.

Many public perceptions made about Diana were true. The perceptions of Diana as a person were true; she was kind and loving. The perception of her marriage, however, was completely wrong. Overall, Diana was a great woman who always thought of others before herself.

Princess Diana

What I already know about Princess Diana

• Princess Diana was known as the "Peoples Princess," since she was loved by most people.


• Princess Diana would donate to, and help the poor countries and people.
  
• She married Prince Charles, the son of Queen Elizabeth.


• Princess Diana had two children with Prince Charles, Harry and William.
  
• Princess Diana later divorced Prince Charles.
  
• Soon after Diana's divorce she died in a horrible car crash being chased by paparazzi with her boyfriend.

Diana: Her True Story Pages 9 to 35

Diana's Child life

• Diana's Parents divorced when she was very young.
  


• Diana had several sisters but only one brother.
  


• She was a very naughty child, she always wanted to make herself and others laugh.
  


• She loved going to her preparatory school Riddlesworth Hall.
  


• Diana won all sorts of trophies, most trophies were for swimming and diving, she also got medal for best kept guinea pig. One aspect Diana didn't excel in were academics.
  


• She was very outgoing, one night she almost got expelled for sneaking out of her dorm to gets sweets from a person named Polly Phillimore in the middle of the night. When her dorm advisor was doing checks to make sure everyone was in bed, Diana wasn't there and her teacher got mad and called her divorced parent's in.

Diana's Older Years

• Diana's finishing school was The Institute of Alpin Videmanette in Switzerland, Diana hated her school and she would complain to her parent relentlessly.
  


• Diana got her own flat in London that she loved.
  


• Diana was a nanny for a little while for "velvet hairband employers."
  After her nannying she did a cookery course in Wimbledon, she got a diploma.
  

Diana's Relationship with Prince Charles

• Diana's sister was obsessed with Prince Chrles and wouldn't let Diana around him; but Prince Charles didn't like Diana's sister, he had a certain liking for Diana, he liked how she was not hanging on to his every word.

Diana: Her True Story pages 36 to 64

Princess Diana and Prince Charles

• Princess Diana and Prince Charles had a rough marriage



• Prince Charles used to criticize Diana about how chubby she was, so she became bulimic.
  


• Princess Diana rarely got any attention from Prince Charles when ever she asked for him to pay attention to her he would always say she was "crying wolf"
  


• Prince Charles spent a lot of his time with Camilla his ex-girlfriend.
  


• Princess Diana used to be jealous of Camilla because Prince Charles used to pay more attention to Camilla than he payed to Diana.
  


• Prince Charles used to be jealous of Diana because she was loved so much in the public eye.

Diana's Suicide Attempts

• Diana tried to kill herself several times.
  


• Diana once took and knife and cut her neck and legs, because she was so lonely and no one in Charles family payed any attention to her. When Diana cut herself Charles would get mad and say she was just "crying wolf"



• Once when Diana was four months pregnant with William she threw herself down the stairs because she had huge fight with Charles, even though Diana was really hurt Charles didn't really care how she and the baby were, he just went out to have lunch with Camilla.

Diana's Pregnancy

• Princess Diana had a tough pregnancy with her first son.


• During her pregnancy she didn't only have morning sickness but she had bulimia as well.


• Diana was really tiny through out her pregnancy.


• Her second pregnancy wasn't as bad as the first.

Diana: Her True Story pages 65 to 93

Princess Diana and Her Two Sons

• Princess Diana and Prince Charles were the only people in the royal family to have two sons.
• Diana thought fate played a big part in why she had two sons.
• Diana was a great mom, she always used tuck in her sons and give them lots of hugs.

Diana Spencer

• When Diana was born she was supposed to be a boy.
• Her parents were trying really hard to have a boy but they ended up having several girls.
• Diana's parents finally had a boy when they had Charles her younger brother.
• Diana is the daughter of viscount and viscountess Althorp.
• Diana was christened at Sandrigham and her brother Charles was christened at Westminster Abbey.
• Diana was the favorite child of Viscount Althorp.
• Diana had a passion for animal, she had hamsters, rabbits, guinea pigs and a cat as pets.
• Before Diana was born her parents had a baby boy named John who died.
• When Diana was in grade school her parents got a divorce.
• When the Althorps separated Diana and Charles (her brother) went to move in with their mom in London.
• Diana and Charles were both afraid of the dark.
• Diana and Charles were the only students at their school whose parents were divorced.
• Diana was given all the superficial things she wanted but she rarely got hugs and kisses.
• Diana's mom married Peter Shand Kydd and moved to a ranch and bought Diana her own horse named Souffle.
• Diana excelled in swimming, dancing and riding, but not school and academics.
• When Diana was older she went to West Heath boarding school.
• Diana was a "private and controlled teenager who didn't wear her emotions on her sleave."
• Diana would visit the old and sick at Sevenoaks mental hospital.
• Diana's father married a "vile" woman named Raine. Diana and Charles hated her.

Diana: Her True Story pages 94 to 122

Diana Spencer as a Teenager

• When Diana left West Heath, she followed her sisters footsteps by enrolling in the Institute Alpin Videmanette and expensive finishing school in Switzerland.
• Diana really hated her school, so her parents agreed to let her drop out, with her school behind her Diana blossomed into a beautiful woman.

Diana's Relashionship with Prince Charles

• Diana and Charles had a strange relashionship Diana wasn't alowed to call call the Prince "Charles" until they were engaged, until then she had to call him "sir."
• Diana's sister Sarah first went out with Charles for several monthes before Diana started dating him.
• When Diana's sister Sarah was dating Charles she was suffering from annorexia.
• The Prince dated several women before he dated Diana.
• When Charles and Diana got engaged the press began to follow Diana around.
• Throughout their relashionship Charles had an intimate relashionship with Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Diana's Father's Sickness

• Diana's father had a brain hemmorhage that he almost died from.
• Diana had a premonition, the night before, that her father was going to collapse and either survive or die right away.
• Diana's father was supposed to die during the night but he survived, but he was unable to talk.
• Diana's stepmom wouldn't let any of his children visit him while he was in the hospital.
• Due to her fathers collapse, Diana had trouble completing her cookery course, but she was still able to complete her cookery course and she got a diploma.

Diana's Career

• Diana's mom was able to get her a job as a ballet teacher for children after she finished her cookery course.
• She loved her job as a ballet teacher, but she only lasted three monthes because, one weekend when she was skiing she suffered a fall and broke her leg.
• When Diana lived in London she went to work at a Kindergarten.

Diana the Adult

• Diana moved to Colherne court in London with her best friend Carolyn Bartholomew.

Diana: Her True Story pages 123 to 151

Diana's Wedding

• Diana's wedding dress was made by Elizabeth and David Emanuel.
• Diana and Charles got married at St. Paul's Cathedral.
• Before her wedding, Diana was in tears, because Charles had got a sentimental romantic gift from Camilla his Ex-girlfriend.
• The night before her wedding, Diana and her sisters were sharing a room, they were eating everything in sight.
• She was up almost half the night throwing up what she had eaten.
• Before her wedding, she had become bulimic.
• On her wedding day she had many people to make sure she looked her best.
• Diana was given away by her father.

The Honeymoon

• During the honeymoon Diana's bulimia got much worse.
• Charles was spending a lot of time on the phone talking to Camilla.
• Diana and Charles spent a lot of their time separately.

The Marriage

• Their marriage wasn't much better than the honeymoon.
• Camilla was like a third person in the marriage, Charles would tell her almost everything that was going on in his marriage.
• Diana was often jealous of Charles' relationship with Camilla, and Charles was jealous of Diana's relationship and popularity with the press.
• Throughout the marriage Diana's bulimia became worse.
• Diana even became depressed and had a lot of suicide attempts.

The Pregnancy

• When Diana was pregnant she was very skinny.
• Diana's pregnancy was horrible, especially since she had morning sickness and and bulimia at the same time.
• Diana had to miss many tours because of her pregnancy.
• When Diana had William, she suffered from postnatal depression and bulimia. When William was two years old Diana and Charles took him on his first overseas trip.
• Diana's pregnancy with Harry wasn't as bad as her first pregnancy, she had a lot less morning sickness.

Diana: Her True Story pages 152-179

Diana's Friend Fergie

• Fergie (Sarah) Diana's friend was really fun.
• Charles always wanted Diana to be more like Fergie, and Diana tried to be more like her.
• Fergie loved the media, where as Diana hated it.
• Fergie was loved by the whole royal family.
• Diana set up Fergie with Charles' brother Andrew.

The Marriage of Diana and Charles

• As time passed the marriage became more rocky.
• Charles started ignoring Diana more and more.
• Charles started to spend more time with Camilla.

The New and Improved Diana

• Diana finally decided to do something about her bulimia, because her friend Carolyn threatened her if she didn't.
• Prince Charles wasn't supportive of Diana's bulimia, and he blamed their marital problems on it. Diana had to hide the bulimia books she got from Charles.
• Diana got an interest in astrology and tarot cards, which helped Diana with her inner growth.
• Diana would do acupuncture and use aromatherapy to relax herself.
• Diana would go to hospitals, homeless shelters and mental institutes and talk to people.
• She was devoted to helping the sick or at least cheering them up.
• She wasn't bias against any type of sickness.
• Diana would bring her children along to visit the hospitals.
• When William got hurt at school Diana took care of William and put all her other duties behind her, but Charles continued on with his duties.
• Diana began to dislike her husband even more and loved the time when he was on tour.
• They both slept in different rooms.

Diana: Her True Story Pages 180 to 208

Diana Gives Up on Charles

• Diana finally gave up on trying to change Charles and mold him into a caring husband.
• She accepted that there was nothing she could do and she accepted that her marriage was basically over.
• She realised that she couldn't stop Charles and Camilla from being so intimate.
• She dreaded Charles' appearance in the later years of their marriage.
• On their wedding anniversary Diana didn't even want to spent time with her husband because he treated her so poorly, but Charles wanted to go out for the publicity and the sake of the media.
• Diana's dislike for Camilla began to lessen

Diana's Dads Death

• When Diana's dad died, she was on vacation with Charles and her sons.
• Diana left immediatly and was surprised but impressed that Charles and the boys went with her to see her family.
• Diana later realised that the only reason that Charles went with her was because of reputation.

William and Harry

• Diana showered William and Harry with the love they never got from their father and the love she never got from her parents.
• Diana chose their school their clothes and their outings.
• Charles rarely spent any time with his sons, and if he did it was only for good publicity.
• Diana prepared her sons for the outside world, she raised them like ordinary boys.

Diana and Her Charity Work

• Diana several hospitals and aids hospices
• Diana visited Mother Teresa when she was sick, in Rome, Diana was going to see her in India, but Mother Teresa was sent to Rome to recover.
• Diana raised a lot of money for charities.

Diana: Her True Story Pages 209 to 236

The End of Diana and Charles

• Diana and Charles marriage was really rocky by the late eighties and early nineties.
• Charles "affair" with Camilla seemed as though it would never end.
• Charles becomes closer to Camilla at the end.
• A biography about Diana was published, the biography talked about everything in her life.
• The biography stated Charles to be a careless husband. Charles reputation was wounded.
• Charles and the Queen decided there was no point holding on the a marriage that was clearly over.
• In the beginning of 1993 Diana and Charles finally separated.
• Diana stayed a Kensington Palace and got custody of her sons.
• Both Diana and Charles completely redecorated their houses, to remove all the memories in the house of each other.

Post Marital Depression

• After the marriage ended Diana was both relieved and happy at first.
• Slowly the joy of separation slowed down and Diana was lonely, missing her kids and just sad.
• All Diana wanted to do was to move out of Kensington Palace and start over, but she couldn't because she would loose custody of her children.
• Diana hated her home and her life.
• She was still actively in the media, even though she was no longer a member of the Royal family.
• She was followed by the media everywhere she went, she once was photographed at her gym.

Diana: Her True Story pages 237 to 259

Diana's Royal Duties

• Diana slowly cut back on her royal duties, and staff.
• Diana eventually was only doing the work she really loved like volunteer and visiting hospices, shelter, hospitals, institutions and third world countries.
• Diana was eventually allowed to make her own decisions with out the interruptions of the "Royal Family."
• When Diana visited places like hospitals and shelters she would sometimes bring along her children to show them others lives.
• Diana finally gave up on trying to impress the media with a fake smile and began to show her true colours.
• Diana worked Mother Teresa's for the dying in Calcutta.
• Diana was interviewed by BBC for a program called Panorama to talk about her "true story," the interview had to be conducted privately because if the "Royal Family" knew about it they wouldn't have allowed it to be aired.

Diana and Her Children

• Diana's first priority was her children.
• She taught her children to see something special in every human being.
• She took her sons to the Refuge night shelter for down-and-outs.
• William would play chess while Harry played cards.

Diana: Her True Story pages 260 to 283

Princess Diana’s Restrictions

• Princess Diana could not have relationships because she was afraid that the “Royal Family” would find out and take her sons away from her.
• Diana had to be careful about being seen with male friends, because the “Royal Family” could find out through the media.
• Diana could not do much because the press was always on her.

Her True Love

• Diana was asked by Mohammad Al-Fayad to join him and his family on a trip France
• When Diana was with Mohammad and his family, she fell in love with Dodi Al-Fayad Mohammad’s son.
• Diana finally found her true love.

Diana Charities

• Diana sold all her “Royal Clothes” in a charity auction, it served as a sign that she was moving on.

Diana’s Death

• Just as Diana was becoming happy and content with herself she was in terrible car accident where her driver was drunk.
• Diana died in a car with Dodi, trying to get away from press.
• Diana died when she was finally at peace with her life.
• Diana was a woman who didn’t only worry about her own well being she worried about the whole worlds well being.