The life of Princess Diana

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The life of Princess Diana

Photos of Princess Diana, who died on Aug. 31, 1997.

Family album photo of Lady Diana Spencer at Itchenor, West Sussex, England, during summer 1970.

A fairytale wedding on July 29, 1981: Britain's Prince Charles and the former Diana Spencer kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London.

Diana and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greet well-wishers outside Clarence House, London, in 1987.

Diana was part of a worldwide campaign to clear landmines from wartorn areas. She tours a minefield dressed in a flak jacket and face shield in Huambo, central Angola, in January 1997.

The Princess of Wales talks to amputees at the the Neves Bendinha Orthopedic Workshop on the outskirts of Luanda, Angola, in January 1997. Sitting on Diana's lap was 13-year-old Sandra Thijica, who lost her left leg to a land mine while working the land with her mother.

Princess Diana arrives at the Tate Gallery in London about two months before she died.

The car in which Princess Diana died, on Aug. 31, 1997. The car crash in Paris also killed her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the chauffeur. It happened shortly after midnight in a tunnel along the Seine River.

Republican Guards stand at attention as pallbearers carry the coffin of Diana out of a Parisian hospital on Aug. 31, 1997. Diana died in a car crash in the city.

An aerial view of the large pile of flowers at the gates of Kensington Palace in London on Sept. 4, 1997. Thousands came to pay their respects.

Elton John plays a rewritten version of his "Candle in the Wind" during the funeral at London's Westminster Abbey on Sept. 6, 1997.

Prince Charles with his two sons, Prince Harry (second from right), and Prince William, along with Diana's brother Earl Spencer, watch the hearse bearing the coffin of Diana leave Westminster Abbey on Sept. 6, 1997.

A visitor this summer views pictures, reflected in a mirrored surface, made by photographer Mario Testino, at Kensington Palace in central London. "A Princess Remembered" is a commemorative audiovisual exhibition celebrating the life of Diana.

French emergency doctor Frederic Maillez, who was first to arrive at the scene of the crash that killed Diana, watches traffic pass through the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Wednesday.

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Family album photo of Lady Diana Spencer at Itchenor, West Sussex, England, during summer 1970.

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