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Lady Diana: Diana Frances Spencer was born at Park House, Sandringham in Norfolk, England on 1 July 1961. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Prince Charles had known Diana for several years, but he first took a serious interest in her as a potential bride during the summer of 1980, when they were guests at a country weekend, where she watched him play polo. The relationship developed as he invited her for a sailing weekend to Cowes, aboard the royal yacht Britannia, followed by an invitation to Balmoral Castle, the Windsor family's Scottish home, to meet his family. Diana was well received at Balmoral by Queen Elizabeth I I, by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the Queen Mother. The couple then had several dates in London. The prince proposed on 6 February 1981, and Diana accepted. She married Charles on 29 July 1981. On 21 June 1982, Diana gave birth to her first son, William,and a second son Henry was born a little over two years after William on 15 September 1984. In December 1995, the Queen asked Charles and Diana for "an early divorce," as a direct result of Diana's //Panorama// interview. The divorce was finalised on 28 August 1996. On 31 August 1997, Diana died after a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris along with Dodi Al-Fayed and the acting security manager, who was instructed to drive the hired Mercedes-Benz through Paris in order to elude the paparazzi.Their black 1994 Mercedes-Benz crashed into the thirteenth pillar of the tunnel. The two-lane tunnel was built without metal barriers in front of the pillars. None of the four occupants wore seat belts. Where is the Fact File?