Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Lady Diana Frances Spencer
Standard Name: Spencer, Lady Diana Frances
Used Form: Diana, Princess of Wales
Connections
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Cultural formation | Barbara Cartland | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Cartland | The author's relations with her daughter were sometimes difficult, as she longed for a son and disapproved of Raine's intellectual attitude during her adolescence. Cartland remembered years later: She thought I was unkind because I... |
Fictionalization | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | A film about her, The Duchess, released in 2008, centred on the pains and frustrations of her marriage, ignoring her literary though not her political life. Advertising for the film used as tagline There... |
names | Lady Colin Campbell |
|
politics | Mary Wesley | Late in life MW
was violently opposed to Thatcher
ite conservatism. |
Publishing | Hilary Mantel | HM
returned to the topic of young, beautiful royal bodies in an article on Princess Diana
, entitled The Princess Myth and published just as Diana' sons brought her memory alive on television. Mantel, Hilary. “The Princess Myth”. theguardian.com, 26 Aug. 2017. |
Textual Production | Rosalind Coward | RC
published Diana
: The Portrait, with a foreword by Nelson Mandela
and an introduction by Lady Sarah McCorquodale
. It is authorized by the estate of the late princess and by the Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Fund |
Textual Production | Rosalind Coward | RC
planned a book-length study or biography of Nelson Mandela
(similar to that of Princess Diana
), but instead she contributed interviews to Mandela: The Authorised Portrait by Mac Maharaj
and A. M. Kathrada
... |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | A few years after the high-profile weddings of Prince Charles
and Princess Diana
and the Duke
and Duchess of York
, AF
's thriller Your Royal Hostage presented Jemima Shore covering a British royal wedding for tv. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003. (1988) “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 276 |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | In spring 2007 she contributed a foreword to the final item in the Guardian newspaper's booklet series of Great speeches of the 20th century: the speech delivered by Earl Spencer
at the funeral of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hilary Mantel | Her protagonist, Alison Harte or Al, is a spiritualist medium. She works in prosaic outer London suburbs, purveying messages of staggeringly banal character from dead relations: the tone is often funny as well as... |
Timeline
30 July 1966: England won the final of the football World...
National or international item
30 July 1966
England won the final of the football World Cup, on their home ground at Wembley Stadium in London, beating West Germany 4-2, with a last goal scored in the final minutes of extra time.
“1966: Football glory for England”. BBC News: On This Day, 30 July 1966.
29 July 1981: Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer...
National or international item
29 July 1981
Prince Charles
married Lady Diana Spencer
in a famously publicized ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral which was widely billed as fairy-tale.
“The Queen at 80: Timeline”. BBC News.
15 January 1997: During a visit to Angola, Princess Diana...
National or international item
15 January 1997
During a visit to Angola, Princess Diana
caused a minor political scandal at home by calling for an international ban on landmines, a position seen as out of step with current British government
policy.
“1997: Princess Diana sparks landmines row”. BBC News: On This Day, 15 Jan. 1997.
“The Treaty”. International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
31 August 1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a late-night...
National or international item
31 August 1997
Diana, Princess of Wales
, died in a late-night car accident in an underpass by the Pont d'Alma in Paris.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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