1. Презентация по английскому языку по теме «Famous people of Great Britain»

2.  Diana Frances, Princess of Wales, née Spencer (1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.  Her wedding to the Prince of Wales on 29 July 1981 was held at St Paul's Cathedral and seen by a global television audience of over 750 million.  While married she bore the titles Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Chester and Baroness of Renfrew.

3.  Diana Spencer was born on the first of July 1961 in Sandringham in England into an aristocratic English family with royal ancestry.  She was the fourth child of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer and his wife Frances, daughter of Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy.  She had two older sisters and a younger brother.  In childhood she liked games, swimming, running and dancing. She wanted to become a dancer. Besides she loved children very much and at the age of sixteen she worked in schools for very young children.

5.  Diana was six when her mother left her father. The Spencers divorced in 1969, and Diana's father received custody of the children.  Diana attended private boarding schools. Although she wasn't an especially good student, she was excelled at sports, and won trophies for her swimming. She dreamed of being a ballerina, but grew too tall (as an adult she was 5'10“ = 178 cm). After leaving school in 1978 she worked as a nanny, waitress, and cleaning woman before becoming a teacher at the Young England kindergarten in Pimlico, London.

6.  Diana became princess, when Prince Charles asked her to be his wife and they got married.  Her romance with the Prince of Wales began in 1980. The oldest child of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, he was 12 years older than Diana, and had previously dated her sister Sarah. Almost from the start, the press took a special interest in "Lady Di." They staked out her apartment and followed her everywhere. Diana later said that she found the constant attention unbearable.

8.  Diana and Charles were married July 29, 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral. The wedding was broadcast in 74 countries and watched by 750 million people worldwide. Diana was the first English woman to marry an heir to the throne in over 300 years.  At the ceremony the Archbishop of Canterbury said, “Here is the stuff of which fairy tales are made.“

11.  The couple had two sons.  The elder son is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (William Arthur Philip Louis, born 21 June 1982).  The younger son is Prince Henry of Wales (Henry Charles Albert David, born 15 September 1984), commonly known as Prince Harry.

12. On 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London he there was wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton. Prince Harry Prince William

13.  But Diana was not quite happy because they did different things and Charles didn't understand her.  The fairy tale was an illusion, as Diana had already discovered.  Prince Charles was still in love with an old girlfriend, Camilla Parker-Bowles. "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded," Princess Diana remarked years later.  Distraught, Diana developed bulimia and attempted suicide. Despite her problems, she was a devoted mother to her two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. She worked tirelessly for charity, and was beloved by the public for her warmth and humanity.

14. Camilla

15.  In 1992 Princess Diana decided to expose the truth about her relationship with Prince Charles to the public. She secretly collaborated with author Andrew Morton on his book «Diana, Her True Story». The princess's direct involvement in the writing of the book was not revealed to the public until after her death.  The separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales was announced on December 9, 1992. The divorce became official August 28, 1996. Princess Diana kept the title Princess of Wales and continued to work for her favorite charities. She and Prince Charles had joint custody of their sons.

16. Andrew Morton

17.  In 1997 Princess Diana began a love affair with Emad "Dodi" Fayed, the son of billionaire businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed.  Their romance ended abruptly on August 31, 1997 when both were killed in a car accident in Paris while fleeing from paparazzi.  Princess Diana's sudden death led to an unprecedented worldwide outpouring of grief and love.  As her brother said at her funeral, she was "the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana, whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds."

18. Emand Fayed

19.  Why was Diana the most famous, the most beautiful, the most photographed woman in the world?  Why did she win the hearts of millions and millions of people in many countries? Matthew Wall, a student at St. Michael's College in Burlington

20.  She was a kind woman. Hundreds of people talked about Diana's kindnesses. She liked ordinary people, though she was rich and had many rich friends. Wherever she was, she was always ready to lend a hand. She was devoted to the sick and the poor. She visited hospitals for people with AIDS and for lepers and wasn't afraid to touch them, talk to them, listen to them.  She worked on children's charities, and had teamed up with Hillary Clinton in an effort to ban landmines. And it's not only money, that she wanted to give people. She wanted to give them a part of her soul, to make them happy because she was unhappy herself. She wanted to give them love, because she needed love herself.

21.  1. How many brothers and sisters did Diana have? 2. What did Diana like in her childhood? 3. When did Diana become princess of Wales? 4. Why did Diana become world famous? 5. Why did people love Diana? 6. Who was among her friends? 7. Why was she the People's Princess?