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unusual facts about Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales



Alfred Gelder

This followed the visit to Hull during May 1903, when Gelder was Mayor of the city, by the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Princess of Wales to unveil a memorial statue of Queen Victoria, a commemoration tablet at the Royal Infirmary and to lay the foundation stone of the new City Hall.

Althorp

When the royal train visited after the public funeral for Diana, it travelled instead to Long Buckby railway station.

Duke of Cornwall

Since their marriage, celebrated at the Guildhall in Windsor on 9 April 2005, Charles's second wife has used the style Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall rather than Princess of Wales.

Iva Davies

On 25 January 1988, Icehouse performs "Electric Blue" at the Royal Command, New South Wales Bicentennial Concert in front of the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

Lam Tin Station

As part of his official visit with then Princess of Wales to Hong Kong, the Prince of Wales officiated the opening of the station, in which a commemorative plaque remains on display to this day.

Mikak

John Russell painted her portrait while she wore extravagant dresses and jewelry given to her by Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales.

Neal Bartlett

By now, Bartlett had abandoned plans for a full-time career in football and in March 1999 he enlisted in the Army, joining the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.

Peter Mansbridge

On the scene, he anchored coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales and Pope John Paul II, numerous royal, papal, and U.S. presidential visits to Canada, numerous Olympic Games, and the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Princess of Wales

For example, Spanish scholar Juan Luis Vives dedicated his Satellitium Animi to "Dominæ Mariæ Cambriæ Principi, Henrici Octavi Angliæ Regis Filiæ".

Their only child was Gwenllian of Wales, who was taken prisoner as an infant following her father's death.

Royal visits to Australia

Future Princess of Wales, Lady Diana Spencer made a short private visit to Australia with her mother and step-father to their sheep station at Yass, north of Melbourne in early February 1981.

Scartho

Following the erection of the new Princess of Wales' hospital to the south of the site, a number of the former workhouse buildings have been demolished or stand empty.

Shackleton Barracks

It was, until summer 2008, home to an infantry battalion - 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.

The closure eventually took place in March 2008, when the infantry battalion, 2nd Battalion, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment moved to Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, London.

University of New South Wales Regiment

On 9 September 1992 the Queen’s Regiment and the Royal Hampshire Regiment amalgamated to form the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Queen’s and Royal Hampshires).

William Mathias

Much of his music was written for the Anglican choral tradition, most famously the anthem Let the people praise Thee, O God written for the July 1981 royal wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales, which had a television audience of an estimated 1 billion people worldwide.


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