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NameDateIntellectual Devotional Modern Culture Reading: Diana, Princess of Wales. Please use this reading on the late Princess Diana of Wales to answer the reading comprehension questions on the worksheet that accompanies it.She was known as the People’s Princess, a global celebrity and humanitarian whose tragic death stunned the world. As a shy girl of twenty, Diana Spencer (1961-1997) married Great Britain’s Prince Charles (1948-) in 1981, in what many believed was a fairy-tale romance. Hundreds of millions of people tuned in to watch the wedding on television; sixteen years later, an estimated 2.5 billion people watched her funeral.Diana united the grandeur of the British royal family with movie-star charisma to create a persona that people around the world found irresistible. She was a fixture in the fashion and celebrity worlds and was also one of the planet’s most socially powerful women, working tirelessly on behalf of victims of AIDS, leprosy, and cancer, among other causes.Along with her power, though, came vulnerability, which emerged when her personal life unraveled in public view. Her marriage to Prince Charles was an unhappy one. As time passed, the two rarely appeared in public together and seemed unhappy when they did. Soon, the truth came out: Diana suffered from depression, developed an eating disorder, and attempted suicide, while Charles rekindled an old romance with Camilla Parker Bowles (1947-). Diana responded to her husband’s infidelity with affairs of her own until they officially separated in 1992.As this personal drama unfolded, Diana attempted to raise her two sons, Prince William (1982-) and Prince Harry )1984-), while the paparazzi followed her relentlessly.Diana and Charles divorced in 1996, leaving the princess to create an independent life for herself. The public remained fascinated with her, and photographers continued to trail her. When she and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed (1955-1997), died in high-speed car accident in Paris, many said they were fleeing the prying eyes of the paparazzi.Investigators determined that the crash was a tragic accident and that their driver, Henri Paul (1956-1997) was drunk. Still, many conspiracy theories abound, including one put forth by Fayed’s father, Mohamed Al-Fayed (1929-).More than a million people lined the route from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey for Diana’s funeral. She died at age thirty-six.Additional FactsDiana was from an aristocratic family herself. She was the daughter of the eighth Earl Spenceer and was a descendant of King James II.She was a kindergarten teacher before marrying Prince Charles.Elton John (1947-) rewrote the lyrics of his hit song “Candle in the Wind” in Diana’s memory. (The original version was a 1973 tribute to Marilyn Monroe.) He performed the new version at Diana’s funeral.Adapted from: Kidder, David S, and Noah Oppenheim. The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture: Converse Confidently about Society and the Arts. Emmaus PA: Modern Times, 2008. ................
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