1. Lady Di's vi--inity was questioned during their courtship
The Sunday Mirror reported that the young woman had had a late-night meeting with the Prince of Wales on the royal train.
In November 1980 she denied these facts and also said that she was a virgin: “I have no history of having gone to bed with anyone, something out of the ordinary. I'm only 19 years old! "I haven't had the opportunity to live those kinds of experiences," she stated in the interview.
2. Carlos did not like her first dress as her fiancée
On her first outing as the prince's fiancée, Lady Di wore a spectacular, very low-cut black dress, which broke with royal dress codes and was very daring by royal standards. The dress caused a stir and impressed the attendees, except for her future husband who, as Diana confessed in a later interview, she did not like the color because black was used for funerals.
3. Her six-month-old son Guillermo in Australia
Six months after giving birth to her first child, William, the princes began their tour of Australia for six weeks to reinforce the image of the crown in the country. Diana wanted to take the little boy instead of leaving him in London with her nanny, an unusual break with royal family tradition.
4. Carlos' derogatory comment to his newborn son Harry
According to Diana, when Prince Harry was born, her husband was upset that he had red hair like her family and that he didn't look like the Windsors. Furthermore, she was also not thrilled that he was a boy since Carlos wanted a girl.
5. Fight against the stigmatization of AIDS
In 1987, the princess dedicated her efforts to fighting against the prejudices that circulated about a new lethal virus: AIDS. There was a lot of misinformation about how it was spread and discrimination towards the gay community. In April Diana inaugurated an HIV AIDS ward and surrounded by cameras she greeted the sick and shook their hands, without gloves. That image went around the world and helped change society's perception of the disease.
6. She was abandoned by her mother when she was six years old.
In her role as an activist, Diana wanted to collaborate with different organizations that helped orphaned boys and girls. Although she belonged to a family of aristocrats and her economic situation was very different, she identified with them because her mother abandoned her when she was six years old. That traumatic experience was what turned her into a passionate spokesperson for all the people abandoned to her fate. She chaired Barnardo's charity among many other actions she carried out.
7. She was behind the publication of the book 'Diana: the true story of her'
When Diana learned that the press had recordings of a conversation of her with her lover but had not published anything about her, she wanted to tell her story through writer Andrew Morton. In 1992 she published the book 'Diana: Her True Story' and sold 2 million copies worldwide. It explained her mental problems, the bulimia she had suffered and her truth about the marriage and her indefelties. The author did not reveal that the princess was her source and that he gave her that commission until after her death.
