Princess Diana

At 36 years old, Princess Diana has this physical status:

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961-97) was a member of the British royal family.

She was the first wife of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry.

Diana's activism and glamour made her a worldwide celebrity and triggered widespread media attention, which was exacerbated by her tumultuous private life. Diana was born into the Spencer family, one of the most popular of the British nobility, and grew up close to the royal family on their Sandringham estate.

Shand Kyddd's youngest daughter was heavily affected by their divorce in 1967.

She did not distinguish herself academically, but she was an excellent at playing, dancing, and sports.

In 1978, she moved to London, where she lived with flatmates and worked in a variety of low-paying jobs. After a brief courtship, Diana came to fame in 1981 as a result of her marriage to Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II.

Their wedding took place at St Paul's Cathedral in 1981 and made her Princess of Wales, a role in which she was enthusiastically welcomed by the public.

The couple's two sons, Prince William and Harry, who were then second and third in the line of succession to the British throne.

Diana's marriage to Charles, on the other hand, was marred due to their incompatibility and extramarital affairs.

The couple divorced in 1992, just after the breakdown of their marriage became public knowledge.

Their marital woes became more public, and the couple's union ended in divorce in 1996. Diana, the Princess of Wales, performed royal duties on behalf of the Queen and represented the Queen at various Commonwealth functions.

In the media, she was praised for her unique approach to charity work.

Her customers were initially focused on children and youth, but she became known for her work with AIDS patients and a call for the removal of landmines.

In addition, she raised concerns and advocated for people living with cancer and mental disorders.

Diana was initially known for her timidity, but her charisma and friendliness endeared her to the public and helped her to recover her image after her marriage's tragic ending.

She was considered a fashion icon in the 1980s and 1990s, and she was regarded as one of the greatest photographers of fashion.

Since her death in a car accident in a Paris tunnel in 1997 and then-televised funeral, media interest and public mourning were high.

Her legacy has had a major influence on the royal family and British society.

Early life

Diana Frances Spencer was born in Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, on July 1st 1961. She was the fourth of five children of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (1924–1992) and Frances Spencer, Viscount Althorp (née Roche; 1936–2004). The Spencer family had been closely linked to the British royal family for many generations; Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer, and Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, were among Queen Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting. Her parents were waiting for a boy to continue his family line, but no one was chosen for a week until her mother and Lady Diana Spencer, a many-time great-aunt who was also a prospective Princess of Wales, decided on Diana Frances. She was also known as "Duch" informally, a reference to her duchess-like behavior in childhood.

Diana was baptized at St. Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, on August 30, 1961. Sarah, Jane, and Charles were three siblings when she grew up. John, her infant brother, died about a year before Diana was born. Lady Althorp was sent by Harley Street clinics in London to determine the "problem" causing the "problem." "It was a dreadful time for my parents and possibly the source of their divorce because I don't think they ever got over it," Diana's younger brother Charles said. Diana grew up in Park House, which is located on the Sandringham estate. The family leased the house from its owner, Queen Elizabeth II, who Diana referred to as "Aunt Lilibet" since childhood. The royal family used to holiday at Sandringham House, and Diana performed with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, the Queen's sons.

Diana was seven years old when her parents divorced. She began dating Peter Shand Kydd in 1969 and married him. Diana lived in London until her parents' divorce in 1967, but Lord Althorp refused to allow her daughter to return to London with Lady Althorp during that year's Christmas holidays. Diana was taken custody of by his ex mother-in-law, Lady Fermoy, shortly after. Lord Althorp married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth, in 1976. Diana's relationship with her stepmother was particularly bad. Raine, whom she described as a "bully," was recalled by the woman. On one occasion, Diana pushed her down the stairs. Later, she referred to her childhood as "very sad" and "very unstable," as well as the whole thing. After her father later inherited Earl Spencer's name in 1975, she renamed her family as Lady Diana, now known as Lady Diana. Spencer's father moved the entire family from Park House to Althorp, Northamptonshire, at which time.

Public life

Diana made her first public appearance in March 1981 at Goldsmiths' Hall after her marriage to Prince Charles. She attended the Trooping the Colour for the first time in June 1981, making her appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace afterwards. In October 1981, Charles and Diana visited Wales. On November 4, 1981, Diana appeared at the State Opening of Parliament for the first time. Her first solo performance was a trip to Regent Street on November 18th, 1981, to switch on the Christmas lights. Diana was on her first overseas tour in September 1982 to attend Grace, Princess of Monaco's state funeral. Queen Beatrix had also created a Grand Cross of the Crown in 1982. In 1983, she accompanied Charles on a tour of Australia and New Zealand with Prince William. The tour was a hit, and the pair attracted huge audiences, but the news mainly focused on Diana rather than Charles, coining the phrase 'Dianamania' to describe people's obsession with her.' Diana burst into tears for a few minutes in a car with Charles near the Sydney Opera House, which their staff explained was due to jet lag and the heat. The couple met with Mori people in New Zealand. On their visit to Canada in June and July 1983, they included a trip to Edmonton to open the 1983 Summer Universiade and a stop in Newfoundland to commemorate the island's 400th anniversary of its Crown's acquisition of the island. The Scottish National Liberation Army had aimed her in 1983 when she attempted to deliver a letter bomb to her.

Diana was the patron of London City Ballet when she travelled to Norway on her own to attend a performance arranged by the company in February 1984. Charles and Diana arrived in Italy in April 1985, and Princes William and Harry followed them later. They met with President Alessandro Pertini. They paid their visit to the Holy See with Pope John Paul II's private audience. They returned to Australia in autumn 1985, and the public and the media took note of Diana's visit as "Di-amond Princess" and the "Jewel in the Crown." The couple toured the United States in November 1985, visiting President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan at the White House. Diana and Charles had a busy year in 1986 as she and her husband Charles toured Japan, Spain, and Canada. Diana fainted in the California Pavilion at Expo 86 in Canada. She went on a six-day tour to Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, where she met King Fahd and Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said.

Charles and Diana, 1988, returned to Thailand and toured Australia for the bicentennial celebrations. She spent a few days in New York as a solo tourist, mainly to promote the Welsh National Opera's work, of which she was a patron. She made a major difference on the community by spontaneously hugging a seven-year-old child with AIDS on a tour of Harlem Hospital Center. She made her second trip to the Arab Gulf in March 1989, visiting Kuwait and the UAE.

Diana and Charles toured Nigeria and Cameroon in March 1990. In Yaoundé, Cameroon's president held a formal dinner to welcome them. The tour featured visits by Diana to hospitals and programs focusing on women's health. They stayed in Budapest for four days in May 1990. It was the royal family's first visit to "a former Warsaw Pact nation." The couple attended a dinner hosted by President rpád Göncz and watched a fashion display at Budapest's Museum of Applied Arts. Diana visited Peto Institute, London, where she presented its director with an honourary OBE. The royal couple married in November 1990, in Japan, to attend Emperor Akihito's enthronement.

Diana visited Germany in December 1990 to speak with the families of soldiers in the hopes of being involved in the Gulf war. She returned to Germany in January 1991 to visit RAF Bruggen and then wrote an encouraging letter that was published in Soldier, Navy News, and RAF News. In 1991, Charles and Diana visited Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where they presented the university with a resemblance of their royal charter. Diana went to Pakistan on a solo trip in September 1991 and then to Brazil with Charles Gomes. Diana paid visits to organizations that struggled against homelessness among street children on their return from Brazil. In 1992, Charles' last trips together were to India and South Korea. She paid a visit to Mother Teresa's hospice in Kolkata, India. The two women met in Rome later in the month and formed a personal friendship. Diana alone in front of the Taj Mahal made news during the Indian tour. She went on a solo tour of Egypt in May 1992, visiting the Giza pyramid complex and having a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. She went on a French solo trip in November 1992 and spoke with President François Mitterrand in a private audience.

She was on her first solo trip after her release from Charles, visiting a leprosy hospital in Nepal, where she met and became acquainted with some patients, marking the first time a dignitary had been touched by a dignitary who had come to visit. She said in December 1993 that she would withdraw from public life, but in November 1994, she said she wanted to "make a partial return." She was keen on participating in the 125th anniversary celebrations as the vice president of British Red Cross. The queen later invited her to attend the anniversary of D-Day's commemoration. Diana visited Japan in February 1995. She paid a formal visit to Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as well as visiting the National Children's Hospital in Tokyo. Diana attended the Venice Biennale art festival in June 1995 and then travelled to Moscow, where she was awarded the International Leonardo Prize. Diana Undertook a four-day trip to Argentina in November 1995 to attend a charity function. She and several others traveled to many other nations, including Belgium, Switzerland, and Zimbabwe. Diana took part in many national activities during her time as a senior member of the royal family, including "the commemoration of Victory in Europe Day and Victory over Japan Day" in 1995. Tate Gallery's 36th and final birthday celebration took place at the gallery's 100th anniversary, which was also a commemoration. Diana attended Gianni Versace's funeral in Milan, Italy, in July 1997.

"I am finding it very difficult to deal with the pressures of being Princess of Wales," she confided in 1983. In the twentieth-century model of royal patronage, she was supposed to make regular public appearances at hospitals, schools, and other places. She became involved with numerous charities from the mid-1980s to the present. In 1988 and 1991, she performed 191 official appearances in 1988 and 397. Diana was particularly keen on medical conditions and health issues outside of traditional royal involvement, such as AIDS and leprosy. "Her overall influence on charity is certainly greater than that of any other person's in the twentieth century," Stephen Lee, the founder of the UK Institute of Charity Fundraising Managers, said.

She was the patroness of charities and organisations that dealt with the homeless, youth, heroin users, and seniors. She served as president of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children from 1989 to 1990. She was patron of the Natural History Museum and president of the Royal Academy of Music. She served as president of Barnardo's, a charity established by Dr. Thomas Barnardo in 1866 to care for homeless children and young adults. She became a patron of the British Red Cross in 1988 and helped its organisations in other nations, including Australia and Canada. Throughout the week, she spent numerous weeks at Royal Brompton Hospital, where she helped patients who are critically ill or dying. She worked with Headway, a brain injury charity, from 1991 to 1996. She was the first patron of the Chester Childbirth Appeal in 1992, a charity she had supported since 1984. The charity, which is named after one of Diana's royal titles, may earn over £1 million with her help. Julia Samuel founded Child Bereavement UK, which assists children "of military families, suicide victims, [and] terminally ill parents." She later became the charity's patron. Prince William later recalled his mother as the charity's royal patron.

The British Lung Foundation, Eureka, was among her patronages. Landmine Survivors Network, Help the Aged, the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery were among her beneficiaries. 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Diana was given the Honour of the City of London in 1987, the highest award in the City of London's capital. She went to Moscow in June 1995. She paid a visit to a children's hospital that she had previously supported when she provided them with medical equipment. She received the International Leonardo Prize in Moscow, which is given to "the most respected patrons and individuals in the arts, medicine, and sports." Diana received the United Cerebral Palsy Humanitarian of the Year award in New York City in December 1995 for her philanthropic efforts. In October 1996, she was awarded a gold medal for her work on the elderly by the Pio Manzù Centre in Rimini, Italy.

She resigned from over 100 charities and retained six, including Centrepoint, English National Ballet, Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Leprosy Mission, National AIDS Trust, and the Royal Marsden Hospital, the day after her divorce. She maintained her role with the British Red Cross Anti-Personnel Land Mines Campaign, but she was no longer identified as patron.

After being asked by her friend Richard Attenborough, Diana opened the Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts in Leicester in May 1997. Some of her dresses and suits were sold at Christie's auction houses in London and New York in June 1997, at the behest of her son William, and the proceeds that were earned from these performances were donated to charities. On July 21, 1997, she made her last official appearance on a trip to Northwick Park Hospital in London. On her return from Paris, she was supposed to attend a fundraiser at the Osteopathic Centre for Children on September 4th.

Diana began working with HIV patients in the 1980s. She was not opposed to physical contact with AIDS patients, and she was the first British royal figure to do so. In 1987, she clasped hands with an AIDS patient in one of her early attempts to stigmatize the disease. "HIV does not make people unsafe to know," Diana said. You can wave their hands and hug them. Heaven knows they need it. "You can even show their houses, their offices, and their playgrounds and toys," the author says. To Diana's dissatisfaction, the Queen did not endorse this type of charitable work, suggesting that she participate in "something more pleasant." Landmark Aids Centre in South London opened in 1989. Diana opened Grandma's House, a Washington, D.C. home for young HIV patients, in October 1990. She was also a patron of the National AIDS Trust and regularly visited the London Lighthouse, which provided residential services to HIV patients. On a visit to the Middlesex Hospital's AIDS ward in 1991, she hugged one patient. She had opened the Middlesex Hospital in 1987 as the first hospital unit in the United Kingdom to support this cause. Diana, the patron of Turning Point, a health and social care charity, visited the London project for people with HIV/AIDS in 1992. She later established and led AIDS research campaigns.

Diana visited South Africa in March 1997, where she met with President Nelson Mandela. Mandela revealed on November 2nd, 2002, that the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund would partner with the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund to support people with AIDS. A few months before her death, they had planned to merge the two charities. "She stroked the legs of a person with leprosy or sat on the bed of a man with HIV/AIDS and held his hand," Mandela said later. Mandela said that Diana had used her celebrity to "fight stigma associated with people living with HIV/AIDS." Sir Ian McKellen and Alan Hollinghurst selected Diana's portrait to be on display in the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2009. Diana was awarded the Attitude magazine's Legacy Award for her HIV/AIDS work in October 2017. Prince Harry accepted the award on behalf of his mother.

Diana was patron of the HALO Trust, an organization that removes rubble, especially landmines, from war-ravaged landmines. Photographs of Diana touring an Angolan minefield in a ballistic helmet and flak jacket were seen around the world in January 1997. Earl Howe, a British Ministry of Defence official, accused her of meddling in politics and referred to a "loose cannon" during her campaign. Despite the scathing remarks, HALO states that Diana's efforts resulted in international recognition of landmines and the subsequent suffering resulting from them. She gave a speech at a landmines conference hosted by the Royal Geographical Society in June 1997 and then travelled to Washington, D.C., to help promote the American Red Cross landmine campaign. She traveled Bosnia and Herzegovina with Jerry White and Ken Rutherford of the Landmine Survivors Network from 7 to ten August 1997, just days before her death.

Her work on the landmines issue has been described as influential in the signing of the Ottawa Treaty, which introduced an international ban on the use of anti-personnel landmines. The Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, paid tribute to Diana's contributions to landmines in the Second Reading of the Landmines Bill 1998 in the British House of Commons.

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a few months after Diana's death in 1997, received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Diana visited The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, a cancer treatment center in London, for her first official visit. She later opted for this charity to be one of the charities that benefited from her clothing auction in New York. "Much to ban the stigma and tabo associated with illnesses such as cancer, AIDS, HIV, and leprosy," the trust's communications manager said. On June 27, 1989, Diana became the hospital's president. Diana Wolson's Cancer Unit was launched in 1993 by Diana. Diana, who had been told of a newly opened cancer hospital built by Imran Khan in February 1996, travelled to Pakistan to visit its children's cancer wards and attend a fundraising dinner in aid of the charity in Lahore. In May 1997, she returned to the hospital for the second time. In June 1996, she travelled to Chicago in her capacity as president of the Royal Marsden Hospital in order to attend a fundraising event at the Field Museum of Natural History in order to raise more than £1 million for cancer research. After meeting a group of breast cancer researchers at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, she continued visiting patients at the Cook County Hospital and gave a talk at a conference on breast cancer at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Diana went to Washington in September 1996, after Katharine Graham's invitation, and she spoke at a White House breakfast in honor of the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research. She was also a fund-raiser for breast cancer research conducted by The Washington Post at the same location each year.

In 1988, Diana opened Children with Leukaemia (later renamed Children with Cancer UK) in honor of two young cancer survivors. Diana met her family in November 1987, a few days after Jean O'Gorman's death from cancer. Jean and her brother's death impacted her, and she helped them establish the charity. It was started by her on January 12, 1988 at Mill Hill Secondary School, and she continued it until her death in 1997.

Diana went to a leprosy hospital in Indonesia in November 1989. Following her visit, she became a Leprosy Mission, a non-profit group dedicated to providing medicine, diagnosis, and other assistance to those who are sick of the disease. She remained a supporter of this charity and visited several of its hospitals around the world, particularly in India, Nepal, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria until her death in 1997. When so many people suspected of the disease through casual contact, she touched those affected by it. "It's always been my worry to touch people with leprosy, attempting to say in a simple way that they are not reviled, nor is it repulsed," she said. The Diana Princess of Wales Health Education and Media Centre in Noida, India, was opened in her honour in November 1999, by the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund to help the people affected by leprosy and disability.

Diana was a long-serving and active promoter of Centrepoint, a charity that offers housing and assistance to homeless people, and she became a patron in 1992. The Passage is a charity that helps individuals combat poverty and homelessness, as well as the Passage organization. Diana was a promoter of young homeless people and spoke out in favour of them by saying that "they are entitled to a good start in life." "We, as a member of society, must ensure that young people, who are our future, are treated with the respect they so richly deserve," she said. Diana used to bring young William and Harry for private visits to Centrepoint services and homeless shelters. "The young people at Centrepoint were always touched by her visits and showed a genuine affection for them," one of the charity's workers said. Prince William later became the patron of this charity.

Diana was a long-serving and devoted promoter of charities and organisations that concentrated on social and mental health, such as Relate and Turning Point. In 1987, Relate was revived as a modernized version of the National Marriage Guidance Council. In 1989, Diana became its patron. Turning Point, a health and social care company, was established in 1964 to serve and assist those affected by opioid use and mental health problems. She became the charity's patron in 1987 and returned to the charity on a daily basis, visiting the patients at the center or hospitals, including Rampton and Broadmoor. "It takes professionalism to convince a skeptical public that it should return to its ranks," she said in a speech to Turning Point in 1990. Despite the travel difficulties inherent in a Muslim world, she travelled to Pakistan later this year in order to visit a rehabilitation center in Lahore as a sign of "her dedication to combating opioid abuse."

The Sunday Mirror ran a story in November 1980 that claimed that Charles used the Royal Train twice for private love rendezvous with Diana, prompting the palace to issue a statement describing the tale as "complete fabrication" and requiring an apology. The newspaper editors, on the other hand, maintained that the woman aboard the train was Diana, and they refused to apologize. Photographs of a pregnant Diana in bikini while holidaying were published in the media in February 1982. The Queen later released a note describing it as "the darkest day in the history of British journalism."

Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) published photographs of Diana that had been taken by gym owner Bryce Taylor in 1993. The photos showed her working in the gym in Los Angeles wearing "a leotard and cycling shorts." Diana lawyers lodged a criminal complaint immediately seeking "a permanent ban on the selling and publishing of the photographs" around the world. However, images from various newspapers outside the United Kingdom were released. Taylor and MGN were given an injunction by the court that had barred "further publication of the photos." MGN later released an apology after being subjected to a lot of backlash from the public and giving Diana £1 million as a reward for her court expenses, but she's donating £200,000 to her charities. In June 1994, LA Fitness released an apology, which was followed by Taylor's apology in February 1995 and forfeiting the £300,000 he earned from the selling of photographs in an out-of-court deal a week before the trial was set to begin. According to the claims, a member of the royal family had aided him financially to get out of court.

A Costa del Sol hotel portrait of Diana sunbathing topless were on sale by a Spanish photography company in 1994 for £1 million. A series of photographs of a topless Diana before sunbathing appeared in the Mirror in 1996, sparking "a riot about privacy invasion." Victor Lewis-Smith, who pretended to be Stephen Hawking, had her phone call in the same year, but the complete recording was never released.

Personal life after divorce

Diana stayed her home on the north side of Kensington Palace, which she had rented with Charles for the first year of their marriage; the apartment remained her home until her death the following year. She later moved her Kensington Palace, but was allowed "to use the state apartments at St James' Palace." In a book published in 2003, Diana Burrell said that her private letters had revealed that her brother, Lord Spencer, had refused to allow her to live at Althorp despite her plea. She was also given an allowance to run her private office, which was responsible for her charitable work and royal duties, but she was still responsible for her bills and "any expenditure" incurred by her or on her behalf from September 1996 to September. In addition, she retained access to the jewelry she had acquired during her marriage, and was allowed to use the British royal family and government air transport. Diana was also offered protection by Metropolitan Police's Royalty Protection Group, which she benefited from while traveling with her sons but she had refused to do so in the final years of her life in an attempt to distance herself from the royal family.

Diana dated Hasnat Khan, a British-Pakistani heart surgeon who was described as "the love of her life" by several of her closest friends after her death, and she is reported to have referred to him as "Mr." It's awesome!" Diana went to Lahore on behalf of Imran Khan, a distant cousin of Hasnat Khan, and visited the latter's family in secrecy in May 1996. Khan was intensely private and the friendship was conducted in secrecy, with Diana lying to journalists of the press who inquired about it. Their marriage lasted almost two years, with contradicting accounts of who ended it. When she broke their marriage, she is said to have shared her discontent. However, it was Diana who ended their relationship in the summer of 1997, not Khan's testimony at the inquest into her death. Diana ended the friendship in July 1997, according to Burrell. Burrell also claimed that Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kyddd, disapproved of her daughter's relationship with a Muslim man. Diana had not spoken to her mother in four months by the time of her mother's death in 1997. In comparison, her relationship with her estranged stepmother had apparently improved.

Diana began a friendship with Dodi Fayed, the son of her summer host, Mohamed Al-Fayed, within a month. In the summer of 1988, Diana had considered taking her sons on a holiday to the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, but security guards had forbidden it. She accepted Fayed's invitation to join his family in the south of France, where his compound and extensive security detail would not cause her concern to the Royal Protection squad. Mohamed Al-Fayed bought the Jonikal, a 60-meter multi-million-pound yacht on which to entertain Diana and her sons. Diana's affair with Fayed, as well as her four-month friendship with Gulu Lalvani, was "to inflame the true object of her affections, Hasnat Khan," Tina Brown later said. Burrell, writer Richard Kay, and voice coach Stewart Pierce have all stated that Diana was also considering purchasing a house in the United States in the years after her death.

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Education and career

Diana was first home-schooled under the guidance of her governess, Gertrude Allen. She began her formal education at Silfield Private School in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and later transferred to Riddlesworth Hall School, an all-girls boarding school near Thetford, when she was nine years old. In 1973, she joined her sisters at West Heath Girls' School in Sevenoaks, Kent. She did not do well academically, failing her O-levels twice. The West Heath Awards were given to her for her outstanding community spirit. When she was sixteen, she left West Heath. She is remembered by her brother Charles as being very shy up to that time. She demonstrated a natural talent for playing as an accomplished pianist. She has excelled in swimming and diving, as well as in ballet and tap dancing.

Diana Whitaker, a 1978 nanny, served in Hampshire for three months as a nanny for Philippa and Jeremy Whitaker. Diana returned to London after attending Institut Alpin Videmanette (a finishing school in Rougemont, Switzerland), and then withdrawing after the 1978 Easter term, where she shared her mother's flat with two school acquaintances. She took an advanced cooking class in London but never cooked for her roommates. She worked as a dance instructor for youth before a skiing crash forced her to miss three months of work. She then worked as a playgroup pre-school assistant, did some housekeeping for her sister Sarah and several of her relatives, and served as a hostess at parties. She spent time as a nanny for the Robertsons, an American family who was residing in London, and as a nursery teacher's assistant at the Young England School in Pimlico. Her mother bought her a flat in Earl's Court in July 1979 as an 18th birthday gift. She lived in three flats until February 25, 1981.

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