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| 1961 | Birth |  |
| 1st July Birth of Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Spencer), youngest daughter of Edward John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Frances Spencer, Viscountess Althorp |
| 1981 | Marriage | |
| 1st July Dianna's engagement to Charles becomes official |
| 29th July London Dianna & Charles mrry at St Paul's Cathedral, watched by a global audience of almost one billion |
| 1987 | Chain of Hope | |
| The Princess of Wales is one of the first high-profile celebrities to be photographed touching a person infected with HIV at the 'chain of hope' organisation |
| 1992 | Marriage | |
| 9th Dec London The Prince and Princess of Wales are separated |
| 1996 | Marriage | |
| 28th Aug Dianna is no longer married to the Prince of Wales, and so has ceased to be a Royal by-marriage, Diana loses the style Her Royal Highness and instead was styled, as Diana, Princess of Wales |
| 28th Aug Their divorce is finalised, Diana receives a lump sum settlement of around œ17,000,000 along with a legal order preventing her from discussing the details |
| 28th Aug Under Elizabeth II's Letters Patent, a divorced wife of a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland "shall not be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of Royal Highness." |
| 1997 | Burial | |
| 6th Sep Althorp Park Diana is buried, The Prince of Wales, her sons, her mother, siblings, a close friend, and a clergyman are present, in an ornamental lake known as The Round Oval within Althorp Park's Pleasure Garden |
| 1997 | Death | |
| 31st Aug Diana dies after a high speed car accident in the Pont d'Alma road tunnel in Paris along with Dodi Al-Fayed and the Acting Security Manager of the H“tel Ritz Paris , Henri Paul, who was instructed to drive the hired Mercedes-Benz through Paris secretl |
| 6th Sep Dianna's funeral is broadcast and watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide |
| 1997 | Funeral of Diana | |
| 6th Sep Dianna's funeral is broadcast and watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide |
| 2006 | Death | |
| 14th Dec Lord Stevens' report, Operation Paget, was published and dismisses all allegations of conspiracy as without foundation |
| 2006 | Paget | |
| 14th Dec Lord Stevens' report, Operation Paget, was published and dismisses all allegations of conspiracy as without foundation |
