Authors and Contributors this page: Christopher Buyers, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 March 2001. Corrected and updated 27.07.2005
 

H.R.H.
Diana
Princess of Wales

1961-1997

    
 

    Vita
    Titles and Awards
    Honorary Military Appointments

    Military Service
    Other Military Connections

    Links
 
  Vita Index of Royal Colonels
Index of Reigns & Peerages
full name:   Diana Frances Spencer
birth: 1961.07.01 Park House, Sandringham
father:   Col. The Rt Hon Edward John (Spencer), 8th Earl Spencer, LVO, DL
mother:   The Hon. Mrs Shand Kydd, née The Hon Frances Ruth Burke Roche
marriage: 1981.07.29 Prince Charles Philip Arthur (Prince of Wales)
at St. Paul's Cathedral, London
divorce: 1996.08.28 at London
children: 1982 Prince William Arthur Philip of Wales
  1984 Prince Henry Charles Albert of Wales
death: 1997.08.31 at Paris, France (automobile accident)
  Titles, Orders and Awards
Titles:
1975.06.09 Lady Diana Frances Spencer
1981.07.29 HRH The Princess of Wales, Countess of Chester, Duchess of Cornwall and Rothesay, Countess of Carrick and Baroness of Renfrew
1996.08.28 Lady Diana, Princess of Wales
[Note: Diana was "HRH" and Princess of Wales by marriage, but not by birthright. She was never known as "Princess Diana"]
 
British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
1981.07.29 Queen Elizabeth II Royal Family Order 2nd class
 
   Honorary Military Appointments
Note: Diana relinquished all military appointments as part of the divorce settlement on 28 Aug.1996.
1985.06.03 Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Hampshire Regiment [to 1992]
  1985.09.17 Colonel-in-Chief, The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment
1988 Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Australian Survey Corps
1989.04.21 Colonel-in-Chief, 13th/18th Royal Hussars [to 1992]
1992.09.09 Colonel-in-Chief, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) [on formation]
1992.12.01 Colonel-in-Chief, The Light Dragoons [on formation]
 
   Military Service
[none]  
   Other Military Connections
 
 
   Links