The People's Princess/won the world
After her divorce, Diana devoted herself to the fight against leprosy, AIDS, anti-anti-personnel landmines and other charities with great courage and love, and her love and footprints spread all over the world.
Fresh and happy life / after the divorce, Diana had been missed like a flower of the years to bloom again. Between the years, she matured rapidly, and it was noted that the change in her tone of voice was a barometer reflecting her growing maturity. When she refers to the days of depression, her tone is calm, soft and deep, as if she is digging out thoughts from the depths of her fears; when she feels "centered" and in control of herself, her voice is lively, passionate and full of wit.
The rich, bumpy life experience, so that Diana has been honed, gained knowledge. At the same time, she also realized that her field of knowledge still needs to be developed. So the girl, who was a mediocre high school student, is ambitiously preparing to study psychology and mental health, in her words, "anything to do with people".
In the past, Diana instinctively agreed with her husband and senior courtiers and lacked confidence in her own knowledge and abilities. Now, she is much clearer about the direction of her life and so is always prepared to debate policy issues that she would never have thought of a few years ago.
Some conventional, inactive diplomats are now beginning to look at Diana in a new light, and are coming to realize her true value.
Diana's trips to the Middle East made a huge impression on them. Diana made her first solo visit to Pakistan, followed by visits to Egypt and Iran. And Iran, an Islamic **** and country, used to burn the British flag a few years ago. As Diana commented, the trip to the Middle East was a "very mature" aspect of her royal life. Her speeches were heartfelt and moving, drawn from personal experience. Her answers to the questions posed by the journalists were so comfortable and complete that they could not complain. The experience was a major milestone in her life.
When Diana spoke her heartfelt wish, all people were touched -- including those who had sneered at her, "I think the people who are suffering the most today are those who are not loved, and I know I can bring them love, even if it's for a minute, half an hour, a day, a month, I'll bring them love, even if it's for a minute, half an hour, a day, a month. hour, a day, a month, I can give. I'm very happy to be able to do that, and it's something I genuinely want to do ...... The people of the UK need a public figure to give them love, understanding, help, who will be a light at the end of a dark tunnel for them. I have my heart set on playing this unique role and I would love to be the Princess Royal in people's minds ......"
Her words brought tears to the eyes of countless viewers.
Forbidden Thunder Warriors / as a royal noblewoman, Diana is not satisfied with a comfortable salary, pampered life, she is elegant demeanor, charming charm, full of enthusiasm and full of confidence, engaged in her social welfare activities, wherever she went, all the people.
In January 1997, Diana flew to the war-torn minefields of Angola, Africa, to use her personal influence to assist the International Red Cross organization in calling for a global ban on the use and total destruction of infantry landmines.
Landmines are a neglected global problem, killing 800 people and maiming 1,200 every month in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Bosnia and Herzegovina from previous wars.
As the plane slowly touched down at the ramshackle airport on the outskirts of the Angolan city of Huambo, the British explosives expert accompanying the visit warned the Princess Royal of the dangers of the land beneath her feet. And the unfortunate people of Luanda brought tears of compassion to Diana, whose efforts have changed the fate of many Angolan landmine victims.
For Diana, it was just a charitable event with good intentions, but she didn't realize that she had inadvertently interfered in politics. While Diana was busy with her activities in Angola, the British government began to feel nervous about the fact that the British military was profiting from the export of weapons.
In June, Diana visited Bosnia and Herzegovina. The world's leading media trailed her. There, pictures of the beautiful, slender princess wearing a transparent mask and striding into minefields emboldened the world, and pictures of her wordlessly embracing children maimed by landmines galvanized the world's sympathy.
Diana used the power of the media to promote the international campaign against landmines, making countless speeches and appealing to many governments to ban the production, sale and use of landmines. Four months after her death, the international community signed an agreement to ban landmines.
It was Diana's influence that brought into the limelight many vulnerable people who had previously gone unnoticed. With her support, the International Campaign Against Landmines (ICBL) flourished, and this unofficial organization, originally unknown after Diana's statement of support for a ban on landmines, gained the support of more than 60 countries and thousands of organizations and groups. By the turn of the century, more than 135 countries around the world had signed the mine ban treaty, and Princess Diana was instrumental in initiating it.
Ambassador of Love/Diana had built up enough self-confidence to take on some challenging work, such as helping people with AIDS.
After her divorce, Diana traveled to Australia, the United States, Italy and other countries to participate in various charitable activities, reducing her charitable causes from the past 100 to the six she cared most about. These groups are mainly funded by the elderly, children, cancer and AIDS patients and the homeless. Visiting the sick in hospitals is not an official duty for her at this point, but a fulfillment; her actions here and now are her personal accomplishments, and when she embraces her patients, she is fulfilling her duties as herself, not as a crown princess.
Diana warmed those in need of love with warmth and camaraderie, comforted the lonely and vulnerable with kisses and hugs, approached people with action, and lived up to her promise.
In the mid-1980s, people talked about AIDS with fear and avoided it. But to Middlesex Hospital to sympathize with the AIDS patients Diana, but sitting at the bedside, and patients hugging, shaking hands, friendly conversation. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton commented: "In 1987, an era when many people still believed that AIDS could be transmitted through light contact, Princess Diana sat on the bed of an AIDS patient and shook his hand. She told the world that what AIDS patients needed was not isolation, but warmth and love."
Leprosy sufferers are a population people don't want to be near. Many are in ghastly shape because of the disease. During Diana's visit to Nigeria, she made special trips to lepers' colonies to visit the patients, even though many had shriveled and deformed fingers due to the disease. Diana still insisted on shaking hands with the patients, a selfless gesture that won praise and made Diana's reputation grow again.
The Princess's sympathy for these people was heartfelt. Dr. George Hibbert commented that "the Princess's sympathy for these people was heartfelt. Dr. George Hibbert commented, "She was a great success, and it was a great encouragement to the patients that someone like Princess Diana could take their problems seriously and be willing to visit them and talk to them. It was a great inspiration to them. Thus her arrival had a great effect among the patients. Some were discouraged by their situation, and the Princess was extremely kind to them; she asked pertinent questions, and she listened attentively to their replies. When she found that these people no longer always curtsied to her and called her Your Highness, she seemed to be relieved, so that she came up to the crowd and talked with them."
Diana's humanitarian sentiments were felt for generations to come, and on his 10th birthday in 2002, her son, Prince Harry, said he had always wanted to follow in his mother's footsteps and fulfill her unfinished charitable work by committing to humanitarian causes such as the banning of landmines and the fight against AIDS. "Especially since my mother passed away," he said, "I have more courage than anyone to do this work."
Philanthropy star / For a long time, Diana thought she was worthless, of no use to the world except for her desirable looks. And now she knows she can be of help to others.
The royals have always been players in charitable organizations, opening charity homes and hospitals. But Diana emerges as an entirely different kind of philanthropist. She was not a hero in the traditional sense, but a superstar of the modern consumer society, "Goodwill Ambassador Diana" is the other side of the "star Diana", which is shaped by the media, the public and herself **** together. In philanthropy, Diana gained self-identity. She realized that her charisma could help those less fortunate to get large sums of money and attention. She became patron or chair of more than 150 social institutions and charitable organizations, and in these endeavors she was able to act according to her own inner code, not that of the royal family. Here she was loved and needed, and not only did she raise money for these groups through many social events, she often made direct donations herself.
Gradually, the media and the public realized that the ￡4,000 a week she spent on clothes was not wasted -- her beautiful image helped her raise more money for those who needed help and care, and she used her charisma to successfully do good. An organization called "Relationships" has seen its fundraising soar from more than ￡9,000 to more than ￡200,000 after asking Diana to become an official patron. To raise money, the charity often organizes parties where wealthy men come and pay ￡7,000 each just to dance with Diana in their arms.
In July 1996, just after the divorce was finalized, Prince William had the bright idea of suggesting that, for charity, the Princess could sell her royal wedding dress as a symbol of her farewell to royal life and as an act of kindness. Diana handpicked 79 of her favorite dresses (which had caused a frenzy of how many imitations), including the one she wore to the White House to dance with John? The white gown she wore while dancing with Travolta was auctioned off in New York, the second city she chose for herself to live in, raising a total of $5.7 million***, all of which was donated to the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Diana was one of the most active fund-raisers for the British Aids Foundation, and one of the most successful, and the Red Cross could hardly have been more grateful to her.At one point, in November 1999, the Diana Charitable Fund's monies amounted to more than 100 million pounds.
The Treasure Bowl of Angola
Angola is a country rich in natural resources, known as the "Treasure Bowl" of southern Africa. Luanda, the capital, is the largest city in Angola and a famous port in Africa. During the Portuguese rule, it was known as the "Little Paris of Africa". Nearly three decades of civil war have left the country full of refugees.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina's war, which broke out in the spring of 1992, was the most brutal war in Europe in nearly 50 years, and once became the focus of the world's attention. Sarajevo, the capital city that Valter once defended, is its capital, and with its rainy summers and snowy winters, it's a great place to visit for a vacation. Sarajevo's old town has a distinctive shopping street with rows of handicraft stores; the center of the city is mostly made up of classical buildings from the Austro-Hungarian Empire era, with a unique style that is clearly different from that of other traditional European cities, and is known as the Jerusalem of Europe. Mostar is one of the main tourist cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was once known for its old stone bridge. Once destroyed by bombing during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the old bridge was restored in 2004 and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Secret Love／In September 1995, Diana met surgeon Hasnat Kohan at the Royal Brampton Hospital in London. Cohan, a surgeon at the Royal Brampton Hospital in London. Diana found this man of Pakistani descent to be caring, simple, disciplined, humorous, and never patronizing to his patients.
After her divorce from Charles in August 1996, Diana felt that a new life had finally begun. But Hasnat was hesitant to commit to a marriage straight away. He was haunted by the reality that he and Diana were so different, not only in their lifestyles, but also in their cultural traditions and their financial situation.
Diana was a public figure who was always in the spotlight, whether she wanted to be or not. For Hasnat, who valued Eastern traditions, a perfect wife should be able to take care of the household and serve her parents at the hall. All he wanted was a home that was simple but felt comfortable, not a luxurious star home. Hasnat's monthly salary was ￡1,800 to ￡2,000, he lived in a two-room suite, worked a lot and had little time for recreation, could Diana adapt to such a simple life,
People in Hasnat's hometown, who also knew about him and Diana, thought that a marriage between Hasnat and Diana would be the perfect union and could bring honor to Pakistan. This thought made Hasnat feel even more uncomfortable; he didn't want to marry for the wishes of others, and marriage was just a matter for himself and his family. He sought advice from one of his more trusted friends and got a simple answer to break off the relationship and move on with his life.
Hasnat attended Diana's funeral as a friend after her tragic car accident in Paris. Photographs documenting the funeral show the stoic surgeon apparently unable to contain his grief any longer, sitting alone in a corner of the crowd, overcome with grief.
The surgeon's father, Mohammed Fayyad, had invited Diana to his funeral on several occasions. Fayyad had invited Diana to a seaside vacation several times, and she had shrugged it off. But this was different; she was in turmoil over Hasnat, and it was her first summer since her divorce. Wanting to make it a good vacation for her two children, she accepted the invitation and took her two little princes and Dodi on a lovely vacation.
In early August 1997, Diana and Dodi went back to the Riviera in the south of France. There, Diana looked happy, swimming with Dodi, sunbathing and chatting together on the yacht. She was aware that people were filming them, but didn't hide from them and deliberately made a point of being open.
On the afternoon of August 30, Diana and Dodi? Fayez returned to the Hotel Ritz in Paris at 16:30 after a weekend trip to St. Tropez, France,*** and after dinner the two got into a black Mercedes Benz as they prepared to go to one of Dodi's private villas on 16th Street in Paris for a break.
The car sped forward along the high-speed boulevard along the Seine.
But they never reached Dodi's villa.
The car only got as far as under the Pont d'Alma near the Eiffel Tower.
Soon after, French Interior Minister Cheveneuilva, who was at the hospital, and the hospital authorities announced that Diana had been in a tragic car accident and had died on the operating table at 4:26 a.m. at the age of 36 due to a massive hemorrhage in her chest.
Place Vend?me, Paris
Place Vend?me, Paris, is an enclosed luxury square in Paris, with the green Vend?me Column in the center, flanked by the famous H?tel de Ritz. It has a long history of hundreds of years, and is traditionally a wealthy consumer area with a deep history and cultural accumulation. Only a handful of merchants' wares qualify for display in the windows of the jewelry stores of Paris's Place Vend?me, where Dodi? Fayez bought the ring engraved with Diana's name here. The Hotel Ritz, owned by Dodi's father, is one of the most luxurious and famous hotels in Paris, and is a favorite hotel for celebrities and movie stars to stay at in Paris. Diana's final days were spent dining here with Dodi. Back then, for Diana, cameras were everywhere.
The Pont de l'Alma on the Seine
Paris bridges are monuments to history, and the Pont de l'Alma is one of the "newest" bridges on the Seine, with a very simple design, not overly decorated, and a history of fighting against the Tsarist Russian army that few people know about. In August 1997, Diana and Dodi were killed in the tunnels under the Alma Bridge, and the Alma Bridge became famous overnight as Princess Di's Fragrant Pins Bridge. In the aftermath, a torch-shaped sculpture was erected in Diana's honor. The base of the sculpture was filled with messages in various languages. Although the city of Paris later built a garden in the old fourth arrondissement to commemorate Diana, the "lover of the masses", but most tourists still want to go to the "Flame of Freedom" sculpture for the Goddess of their hearts to offer their own flowers.
The funeral of the century / Diana's death, countless media around the world coincidentally used the same word - "shock and sadness". The media, which had ridiculed and victimized her, described her departure at this time in these terms - "Britain has lost
a jewel in its crown." British radio stations stopped broadcasting their normal programs to broadcast exclusively the news of Princess Diana's aftermath, something unparalleled since World War II.
On September 6, 1997, Britain held a funeral for Diana. Thousands of people prayed for her outside Westminster Abbey, and the 77-mile road her coffin traveled was sprinkled with flowers. The funeral procession traveled for two hours from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey. As the hearse passed the entrance to Buckingham Palace, Britain's royal palace, Queen Elizabeth II, dressed in black, led three generations of royalty in a deep bow to Diana's coffin. Behind her, the British flag flying over Buckingham Palace was lowered by half early on.
It was the grandest funeral in the 1,000 years since Westminster Abbey was built. The tribute to a woman not only turned out to be a miraculous and grand gathering on a world-historical scale, it also brought together warring Irish Catholics and pro-British believers to pay tribute to her. The choir's tribute featured British Prime Minister Tony Blair reading "A Corinthian Tribute to Love:" "Today we can only see her remains dimly through the glass. In her we see loyalty, hope and love, but of the three, the greatest is love."
The BBC broadcast the unprecedented funeral live to the world in 44 languages, and 2.5 billion people around the globe saw one of the most poignant images of the century as Princess Diana's casket rested on a gun carriage, covered in a maroon and fuchsia and gold royal flag, and topped with white flowers, and in the midst of the flowers was a card written by two young princes, with a single word on it: "MUM". There was also the sad face of Charles, the man who made Diana's life the very story it was.
After Diana's death, all walks of life have been thinking about how to capitalize on the occasion to make a lot of money, and a so-called "Diana economy" has been formed. Some people put it more clearly: Diana fed a whole lot of people, both before and after her death.
The rose is gone, but not gone, and the candle in the wind is still wavering. The sudden death has filled people with suspicion, with a steady stream of friends revealing and others coming forward to testify, with rumors from do-gooders and self-reporting from the restless. Diana, the rose of England, was glorious in life and not lonely in death; the stories are always there, each fresh.
After Diana's death, there were as many as nine versions of the cause of death. For example, the driver was drunk and caused a car accident, the car broke down and had an accident, landmine dealers buried landmines, died because of the delay of the doctor, the British royal family poisoned, and so on. However, many people believe that Diana's sudden departure was an assassination attempt orchestrated by British intelligence agencies.
On October 20, 2003, the British newspaper Daily Mirror published a handwritten letter from Diana, provided by Diana's butler, Burrell, which read: "I am now in the most dangerous stage of my life, and there is a plan to create an 'accidental car crash' for me: Brakes failed and I suffered a serious head injury ...... The purpose of harming me is to clear the way for Charles to marry." This makes it seem that some people in Britain who have always suspected that Princess Di's death was a "conspiracy" have found evidence.
January 10, 2004, the British newspaper "The Times" once again shook shocking news. The newspaper said British police suspected that Princess Di's driver, Henri Paul, had been "murdered" in a blood sample. The newspaper said that British police suspected that Princess Di's driver Henri Paul's blood samples had been "switched", and therefore seriously questioned the French conclusion that Paul had been drinking and driving when he caused the crash.
December 14, 2006 at noon, the British police officially announced the cause of death of Diana and her boyfriend Dodi's detailed investigation report: Princess Diana died in an accident, but never died of murder. The 850-page report is the result of a two-year, 4-million-pound investigation by a special team of 13 experts led by the former Inspector General of the London Police, who interviewed 400 witnesses and extracted 250 testimonies with the full cooperation of British, French and U.S. intelligence agencies, as well as government departments.
Despite the fact that the contents of the report have been made public, one of the parties involved, Dodi's father, the Egyptian tycoon Fayyad, has vehemently denied that his son and Diana's deaths were the result of a pure accident. Since the accident, Fayyad has been demanding a public inquiry into his son's and Diana's deaths and has put together his own team of detectives who believe that Diana and his son died as a result of pure murder.
In the 10 years since, Diana's name has never been forgotten, she has been like a shooting star across the Windsor Castle sky, but always unsettled, more and more like a movie story, and with no end in sight.