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LEFT: Diana shows her love for animals with Souffle the Shetland pony at her mother's home in Scotland in 1974. RIGHT: A shot of a carefree little airi-next-door in 1968 BOTTOM: The aid who was to Become one of the wodd's most glamorous women shows an early eye for fashion back in 1970
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ady Diana Spencer was bom at Sandringham on July 1,1961, the third daughter of Earl Spencer and his first wife, formerly die Hon
ourable Frances Roche. The Spencers’ long history as advisers and
servants to British kings and queens meant (he young, shy pnneess-to-be found royalty
neither mysterious nor remote. She spent much of her childhood at Park
House, on the Queen’s Sandringham estate. To her, the Queen was Aunt Lilhbct and her childhood pals were die Queen’s younger
sons, Andrew and Edward. But her early years were not always so carefree- At the age of seven, Diana’s par ents divorced and her mother moved away to be with die new man in her life. At nine, Diana went to Riddlcsworth Hall, a boarding school near Diss, Norfolk. But even at the best of times, school was not an institution in which Diana would shine, at
least not academically. Anodier upheaval came in 1975, when Diana’s grandfather, the seventh carl died
and die family moved to die Spencer family scat at Aldiorp House in Northamptonshire.
With the inevitability of family tradition,
Diana went on to West Headi, the all girls public school near Sevenoaks, where her mother had gone.
She failed all her O-levels, even at die second taking - but excelled at sport, es
pecially swimming and always har boured dreams of being a ballerina.
She left school at 16 and alter a brief
stay at die Institut Alpin Videmanettc, an expensive Swiss finishing school, her fa
ther bought her a flat diat she shared with friends in Kensington, London.
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hree days a week she worked for well-heeled friends, clean ing floors for£l an hour, serv ing canapes at cocktail parties
and acting as a nanny. Then she became an assistant at the Young England kindergarten in Ptmlico, South London.
The turning point in her life came when
her closely-guarded romance widi Prince Charles became public knowl edge soon after a photographer turned
his binoculars on them on die heather- clad banks of the River Dee at Balmoral
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