Was Princess Diana A Hero?

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If you wanted to know who Princess Diana was, you would need to answer these simple questions first. What did she accomplish as a human being? How was she viewed by the public? How has she changed or influenced the world? Was the princess a hero or was she a villain? To answer these questions we first need to look at her life and learn about the Princess of Wales.

Princess Diana accomplished a lot of things before her death, almost all of them were seen by others in her life works. One thing you should know is that she was not always a princess she started as a normal girl, with a love for children, and an attitude to help hospitals.Princess Diana was very big on her fundraising and charity work. One of her charities included a stand against land mines. The article “Achievements of Princess Diana” states she did a project to ban landmines that are “purposely put in the ground.” These landmines are responsible for a lot or deaths and injuries. It also states that nurses believed she had a very positive attitude around the hospital and this positive attitude affected the
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Anyone can put on a happy face and start a show. That’s probably the thoughts you're having at the moment, right? How was she viewed by the public? In the article “Princess Diana-Princess” it states, “News of Princess Diana's death shocked the world, millions of people came to pay tribute to the “People's Princess” at her funeral. Thousands of flowers were placed at the golden gates of the castle in England where most of her life happened.” On what would have been her 46th birthday, Princess Diana’s two sons put together a concert to raise funds for the princesses charities that she committed to and supported before her death. Princess Diana was a big deal to the world. Ask your elders how they felt on one faint morning in 1997 when they picked up their newspapers and the headlines told of the death of Princess

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