Princess Diana

The Queen of Our Hearts

Throughout her life all eyes were always on Princess Diana. Millions came to identify with her and, when she died, they felt as though they have lost a best friend. Princess Di was known across the world as “The People’s Princess” and “The Queen of Our Hearts”. She was one of the most admired and relatable princesses to society. Through her charity and her life struggles, many people can admire and relate to Princess Diana.

Princess Diana was involved in nearly 100 charities during her life. Through the vigorous fund raising and campaigning, Princess Diana has greatly affected the lives of the patients she has reached out to. Princess Diana shocked the British society when she decided to become a part of the AIDS research. The subject of AIDS was usually shunned by the “great” British society. At that time little was known about AIDS, some still believed a person could get AIDS by touching, hugging, or kissing an infected person. “Princess Diana’s advisers argued strongly that the public would be unsympathetic and warned her that becoming associated with AIDS charities could harm her position as future queen” (Bradford 78). Despite much criticism, Princess Di was determined and became a part of the National AIDS Trust. In April of 1987, Diana opened Britain’s first purpose-built ward for AIDS sufferers, at London’s Middlesex Hospital (Davies 208). During her AIDS charity work, Princess Diana was one of the first high profile people in Britain to be pictured touching those afflicted with AIDS. This had a significant impact on changing people’s opinions and attitudes to the disease. Diana said, “HIV does not make people dangerous to know. You can shake their hands and give

them hugs, Heaven knows they need it” (www.biographyonline.net/people/diana). Though Diana was a part of the National AIDS trust, she also contributed greatly to Centrepoint, a homeless charity, the abolishing of landmines, the research of cancer, and the research of problems with unborn children. Through charity work many people from across the world came to admire Princess Diana for her tenderness.

“She [Princess Diana] suffered from bulimia and depression but she found the strength to comfort people whom she said were вЂ?rejected by society’ (AIDS patients, battered women, & drug addicts)” (ARTICLE). Princess Diana struggled with bulimia and depression throughout the last portion of her life. She attempted suicide more than once and had the whole world view her rocky marriage with her husband Charles. This took a major toll on the Princess. “She was one of the most celebrated women in the world, and yet achingly lonely. Movie stars and factory workers lined up to meet her, but she felt so unloved that she repeatedly tried to harm herself.” (ARTICLE). Princess Diana had been diagnosed with depression in 1991. She fought through bulimia in the public eye .(www.bpdcentral.com/nookboard/index.php?topic=15428.0).

“After being projected to the world as a compelling image of victim hood, many women in unhappy marriages and outsiders of the social world began to identify with her.” (www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/diana01.html). Diana became the celebrity everyone began to relate to. Since Princess Diana had problems, it made many people