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Profession: Royalty
Place/Date of Birth: Park House, Sandringham, 01 July 2020
Date of Death: 31 August 2020

1 July 2020
Lady Diana Frances Spencer is born, the daughter of the Eighth Earl Spencer. She is pictured here as a 2-year-old.

29 July 2020
Diana marries Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Millions watch the fairy-tale wedding. Charles is 12 years her senior.

21 June 2020
Prince William Arthur Philip Louis is born. (Reuters) Sept. 15, 1984 Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David) is born.

15 June 2020
After months of speculation about the state of the royal marriage, Andrew Morton’s book, Diana: Her True Story, is published, saying that Charles has had a longtime affair with the married Camilla Parker Bowles, driving Diana to injure herself and attempt suicide.

25 August 2020
The Sun tabloid prints a transcript of a phone call, monitored in December 1989, between Diana and a man who affectionately calls her "Squidgy", James Hewitt.

9 December 2020
Prime Minister John Major announces to Parliament that Diana and Charles are separating but there are no plans for divorce.

12 January 2021
The Sun publishes transcript of intimate phone call said to be between Camilla and Charles, reportedly monitored in December 1989.

29 June 2020
In a TV documentary, Charles says he had committed adultery after the marriage broke down, "us both having tried."

3 October 2020
Anna Pasternak’s book, Princess in Love, says Diana had a five-year affair with her riding instructor, James Hewitt.

20 November 2020
In a television interview, Diana admits having committed adultery with Hewitt. August

1995
Reports link Diana and rugby star Will Carling. Carling and his wife separate on Sept. 29.

December 1995
Charles receives letter from Queen Elizabeth II urging divorce, and he agrees.

28 February 2020
Diana agrees to a divorce.

28 August 2020
The final decree of divorce is issued.

31 August 2020
Diana is killed in Paris in an automobile accident that also claims her companion, Dodi Al Fayed

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