Rick Duchane: " She brought people together and showed great spirit in the face of adversity , and that lives within peoples hearts everyday "
Ronny Dorge: She was a princess.
Tom Romer: Who was Queen Diana? If you mean Diana, Princess of Wales,try this site which contains most of the charities that she supported during her lifetime,and continues to support.http://www.theworkcontinues.orgDiana's concerns were the homeless,AIDS,cancer awareness,women's health,mental health,the arts,education,the handicapped,anti-landmines,prosthetic limbs.She was aware that she could bring attention to these causes by using her popularity....Show more
Ewa Homrich: my bad yea i mean princess diana
Russ Kiernan: = I think the comment that Diana "introduced Americans to Britain's royal family" is a bit of an overstatement. While I'm sure that George III, IV, and William IV were regarded more or less as enemis of the USA, Queen victoria was of some fascination. One hun! dred years before Diana was married, "The Prince and the Pauper" was an extremely popular book.- The high society life of Edward, the Prince of Wales and his later kingship had a lot of effect on American Society. The abdication in 1936 of the "king who renounced his throne to marry the woman that he loved" probably made more American women swoon than in UK, where I think most people saw it as a dereliction of duty.- The first visit of a monarch to the US in 1939 was a huge success. Queen Elizabeth followed her father and conducted state visits in 1957 and 1976 where she was very popular. [The visits in 1939 and 1957 were conducted as the monarch of Canada].======================================- Certainly the gossipy stuff, the antics of the Duke of Kent in the 1930's, the first illegitimate child born to a royal in the 1960's were all the subject of media attention.- The increase of tabloid journalism after 1981 applies to every aspect of society, not just the monarchy o! f the UK....Show more
Eleni Mccier: Starting in the mid-! to late 1980s, the Princess of Wales became very well known for her support of several charity projects. This stemmed naturally from her role as Princess of Walesâ€"she was expected to engage in hospital visits where she comforted the sick and in so doing, assumed the patronage of various charitable organisationsâ€"and from an interest in certain illnesses and health-related matters. Diana was a supporter of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a campaign that went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.In April 1987, the Princess of Wales was one of the first high-profile celebrities to be photographed touching a person infected with HIV at the 'chain of hope' organization. Her contribution to changing the public opinion of AIDS sufferers was summarized in December 2001 by Bill Clinton at the 'Diana, Princess of Wales Lecture on AIDS':In January 1997 the pictures of former Princess touring an Angolan minefield, in a ballistic helmet and flak jacket, were seen wor! ldwide. It was during this campaign that some accused the Princess of meddling in politics and declared her a 'loose cannon.' In August 1997, just days before her death, she visited Bosnia with the Landmine Survivors Network. Her interest in landmines was focused on the injuries they create, often to children, long after a conflict is over.She is believed to have influenced the signing, though only after her death, of the Ottawa Treaty, which created an international ban on the use of anti-personnel landmines. Introducing the Second Reading of the Landmines Bill 1998 to the British House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary.The United Nations appealed to the nations which produced and stockpiled the largest numbers of landmines (China, Japan, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States) to sign the Ottawa Treaty forbidding their production and use, for which Diana had campaigned. Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), ! said that landmines remained "a deadly attraction for children, whose i! nnate curiosity and need for play often lure them directly into harm's way"....Show more
Lizzette Wendroth: Nothing. She even suggested one day being called the 'King Mother'! Hilarious.She was a fine young woman, but I don't think she was fit to be a queen consort.Cheers!
Oscar Wieland: Like Jesus, she died for the British people. Only their teeth were not fixed and it was a waste.
Sharri Scalley: She died for it.
Stanton Villao: First she was never Queen because Chuck has not been King.Probably her charity work, dealing with the AIDS crisis, etc. and from what I understand she got a lot of of criticism especially within the royal family for actually touching and holding people with AIDS. This was shocking not only because she was holding a baby with AIDS, but because the Royal Family is not supposed to be touched by commoners. She did a lot of other charity work, like later working to get rid of land mines. I don't know how she did on that.The th! ing she did from the American standpoint is introduce us to Britain's royal family. Until she married into the family, I'm sure most Americans knew who Queen Elizabeth was, maybe that her husband was Phillip; that Charles was Prince of Wales, there had been some other publicity about his affairs if you read the tabloids; something about Princess Anne in the '76 Olympics, but nearly nothing about Andrew and Edward or anything about their lives, their many castles, etc. After Diana came on the scene it was Royal Family intrigue, 24/7 even in America. ...Show more
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