Diana, Princess of Wales. Oftentimes called the People's Princess. Born into a wealthy,

aristocratic family with strong royal ties, Diana grew up assuming her future would be pretty

damn bright. Of course she assumed that. She was raised essentially to be married to someone

with royal blood, to be married to a high born man of means, but she couldn't have known or

assumed, dreamt maybe, that she would actually marry the Prince of England, heir to the British

throne and become the British commonwealth's princess. That's exactly what happened. She first caught

Prince Charles as I as a teenager when he was of all things dating her older sister. It would

appear to be a sweet and dreamlike royal romance would begin later, one that would capture the world's

attention. Diana seemed to have it all to be living a fairy tale. A literal prince, the off-romanticized

prince charming had picked her, her foot, had fit the fabled glass slipper. And she looked like a

fairy tale princess. She was young, elegant, fashionable, beautiful, and now she was an actual princess.

But fairy tales don't often actually really come true, do they? Yes, Diana was becoming a princess,

but she was not becoming the happy bride of a devoted and love-struck prince charming. Their

fairy tale romance was fake. From the beginning, a show put on for the cameras to uphold the

all-important picture perfect and profitable image of the British royal family. Beneath the facade

of their romance behind the beautiful clothes and jewels and the extravagant wealth was a woman

who was sick and suffering. Diana wed a man whose heart and bed already belonged to someone else,

someone the king and queen had deemed an unsuitable wife for their prince. Diana's happy,

heavily publicized honeymoon was spent largely in tears. She'd married a man who she didn't really

love because she didn't really know him, a man who wished he was married to someone else.

And now Diana worked hard to hide her true feelings from the media frenzy that surrounded her.

She'd sacrifice any hope for a private life once she'd said yes to Prince Charles's marriage proposal.

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