Essay On Princess Diana

Have you ever known someone who has made such a big impact on the world that everyone else was effective? This is what Princess Diana did to the world. She changed the way the world saw royalty. From the way she interacted with her people to the way she took care of her two children. She struggled so much with depression and the lifestyle of a princess but she did not let that show. She hugged, laughed, and talk to people who were outcast in society and showed people they need not fear them. Everyone who met her felt important; like they mattered. When she tragically died the whole world mourned the loss of this wonderful person. Princess Diana was an influential and interesting women regarding her personal life, humanitarian work, and death.
Being brought up as an aristocrat did not prepare her for the hierarchy of Buckingham Palace. The “weight simply dropped off, her waist shrinking from 29 inches when the engagement was announced down to 23 inches on her wedding day” (Morton 59). The start of Diana’s ten year battle with bulimia nervosa began. Bulimia nervosa is an emotional disorder that involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight. On July 29, 1981 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, the 20 year old Diana married the 32 year old Charles. “3,500 people attended the wedding not including the millions of people who lined the streets and watched it worldwide” (“Early Years” 4). Her dress, designed by Elizabeth and David Emanuel, was made of silk, and lace, hand embroidered with sequins, and 10,000 pearls with a 25 foot train. Diana wore a tiara that was a Spencer family heirloom. Charles wore his naval commander uniform. After the ceremony, they had a small dinner party for 120 people at Buckingham palace. A little more than a year later “Diana gave birth to her first son, Prince William, in June 1982 and then her second son, Prince Harry, in September 1984. By that time Diana was suffering from bulimia and had attempted suicide five times,” (Whitney,