Lady Diana - Exercises

1. The political aims of the marriage between Lady Diana and the Prince of Wales:

- Lady Diana was ideally suited to bring glamour and a capacity to show human sympathy to a royal family that needed to renew its links with its people.

2. Aspects of the Princess' life turned her into the ‘people's princess':

- Lady Diana set out to build a position that was royal but independent of the royal family by leading a glamorous life and at the same time maintaining a steady round of well-chosen charitable activities, of which her visiting of AIDS patients and her campaign against land mines probably made most impression.

3. Reason why the royal family changes their minds about taking part in the funeral:

- People expected them the royal family participated to the funeral service and the royal family changes their minds about taking part in the funeral because they didn't want to be hated by their people.