Diana’s Life in Photos
1. A newly-engaged Diana and Charles visit the Craigowan Lodge at Scotland’s Balmoral Estate just before their wedding. 2. The couple said “I do” at Buckingham Palace in July 1981. “The night before I was… deathly calm. I felt I was a lamb to the slaughter. I knew it and couldn’t do anything about it,” Diana told her biographer, Andrew Morton. 3. “I’d like to be a queen of people’s hearts, but I don’t see myself being the queen of this country,” she once said. 4. Diana (with baby William) took to motherhood instantly. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s,” she’s said. 5. She hit the White House dance floor with actor John Travolta in 1985. “That was one of the highlights of my life,” he later said. 6.
Diana was dedicated to highlighting important social issues. In 1997, she called for a ban on landmines while walking in a minefield in Angola (her son Harry retraced her steps 22 years later). 7. She took an unconventional approach to parenting William and Harry. “I don’t go by the rule book,” she said. “I lead from the heart, not the head.” 8. Diana and her boys shared a sweet family moment while on royal holiday in Spain in 1987. 9. “Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society,” said Diana, who was known as The People’s Princess. 10. Diana wanted her kids to have normal experiences, away from palace life. “I live for my sons,” she said. “I would be lost without them.”