Who's a 'New Elizabethan'

Princess Diana (1961 - 1997)

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Born Diana Spencer on July 1, 1961, Princess Diana became Lady Diana Spencer after her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer in 1975. She married heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, on July 29, 1981. They had two sons and later divorced in 1996. Diana died in a car crash after trying to escape the paparazzi in Paris on the night of August 30, 1997.

The Princess was President or Patron of over 100 charities. The Princess did much to publicise work on behalf of homeless and also disabled people, children and people with HIV/AIDS.

The Princess was also President of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and of the Royal Marsden Hospital. In the year before her death, aged 36, the Princess was an active campaigner for a ban on the manufacture and use of land mines. In January 1997, she visited Angola as part of her campaign. In June, the Princess spoke at the landmines conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London, and this was followed by a visit to Washington DC in the United States on 17/18 June to promote the American Red Cross landmines campaign

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2285478/Princess-Diana-Prince-Harry-pays-emotional-tribute-mother-citing-inspiration-charity-work.html

The reason why I've chosen Princess Diana of Wales as my 'New Elizabethan' is that she was known as the People's princess with her natural beauty and her ease with people, the public loved her as she was very caring and genuine. She was a very strong women and a fighter as during the time of the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles, she was constantly in the tabloids, she was in an extremely unhappy marriage so in 1995 she went ‘Panorama’ television for an interview about her ongoing fight against bulimia nervosa, her crippling post-natal depression, her doomed marriage to Charles, the mental cruelty she endured over his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles, her attempted suicide attempts and her own promiscuity. However throughout this dark time she continued her charity work she was known to be the first celebrity to be photographed touching a person with HIV, she often made unannounced visits to terminally ill patients in hospital but on a request to remain out of the media on these occasions. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2777607/Girl-met-Diana-Princess-Wales-dies-leukaemia-battle.html

I've chosen this photo of Princess Diana as I personally think this portrays what type of women she really was which is caring and how genuine she was as a person. She looks Elizabethan by the clothes she is wearing as you can see her dress is royal red, her hair is beautiful styled and she is wearing very minimal jewelry accept for two large gold earrings which compliment the red of her dress perfectly. I think this photo shows how she was really the people's Princess and how she always wanted to help and to look after her people.


http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/diana-spencer.html
http://www.royal.gov.uk/historyofthemonarchy/the%20house%20of%20windsor%20from%201952/dianaprincessofwales/background.aspx