The Life of Princess Diana Trivia Quiz

Answer: July 1, 1961

Diana was born as the Honourable Diana Frances Spencer at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk at Park House, as her family were aristocratic. She was the fourth child of her father John Althorpe, Viscount Althorp and his first wife, the Honourable Frances Roche.

Answer: 1975

Diana became known as Lady Diana when her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer in 1975. He was formally known as John Spencer, Viscount Althorp. The family tradition goes on now with her younger brother Earl Spencer.

Answer: 4

She was the fourth child of five, with two sisters, Sarah and Jane and a younger brother, Charles and she had an infant brother, John, who died a year before she was born. She always felt unwanted because she wasn't a boy, knowing that is what her parents wanted, after losing John a year before her birth.

Answer: 8

Her mother Frances had an affair with Peter Shand Kydd. Diana stayed with her mother during the separation from age 6. Eventually, her father Lord Althorp won custody of her when she began to attend boarding schools when the divorce was finalized when she was 8 years old.

Answer: 1977

Prince Charles dated Lady Diana's older sister Lady Sarah and met Prince Charles during that time in November of 1977. Before that she had shown him around Althorp while he dated her sister, Lady Sarah. He took an interest in her in 1980, when she was 19 years old.

Answer: 1980

In 1980, Lady Diana was a guest for a country weekend to watch Prince Charles play polo. He then invited her to sail on the royal yacht Britannia followed by an invitation to meet his family at Balmoral in Scotland. They were all delighted by her at the time, wanting Prince Charles to marry, as he was 12 years older.

Answer: 1981

Their engagement became official on the 24th of February, 1981, where he presented her a large sapphire engagement ring surrounded by 14 solitaire diamonds. She soon learned that he didn't love her. When he was asked if he was in love, he replied, "whatever in love means".

Answer: July 29, 1981

Lady Diana Spencer and Princes Charles of Wales were wed on July 29, 1981 in St. Paul's Cathedral, with much exccitement and watched on television by much of the world. She brought a new appeal to the Royal Family and the cameras couldn't get enough of her, from the courtship onwards.

Answer: 1996

The couple separated in 1992 and in 1996, the Queen ordered them to divorce, which was finalized on August 28, 1996. Princess Diana lost the title of "HRH". She immersed herself in charity work and did so quite well. She did so much for so many people, the blind, deaf, dying, lepers, maimed - she loved them all.

Answer: Paris, France 1997

Princess Diana was fatally injured in a car crash in Paris, France on the 31st of August, 1997. The outpouring of grief were astounding. Flowers from all over the world covered the gates of Kensington Palace, where she lived. She is still remembered today by her sons' work continuing what she was patron of, plus there is a fountain in her honour at Hyde Park, as she loved the water so much.