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5-3i Public life

5-3ia Public appearances

The Princess of Wales attended the State Opening of Parliament for the first time on 4 November 1981. 
She attended the Trooping the Colour for the first time in June 1982, making her appearance on the balcony 
of Buckingham Palace afterwards. Also in 1982, Diana accompanied the Prince of Wales to the 
Netherlands and was created a Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. 
In 1983, she accompanied the Prince on a tour of Australia and New Zealand with Prince William, where 
they met with representatives of the Maori people.

Their visit to Canada in June and July 1983 included a trip to Edmonton to open the 1983 Summer 
Universiade and a stop in Newfoundland to commemorate the 400th anniversary of that island’s acquisition 
by the Crown.

In April 1985, the Prince and Princess of Wales visited Italy, and were later joined by Princes William and 
Harry. They met with President Alessandro Pertini. Their visit to the Holy See included a private audience 
with Pope John Paul II. In November 1985, the couple visited the United States, meeting President Ronald 
Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan at the White House. 1986 was a busy year for Diana. With the Prince 
of Wales she embarked on a tour of Japan, Indonesia, Spain, and Canada. In Canada they visited Expo 86.

In 1987, they visited Germany and France. In 1988, the Prince and Princess of Wales visited Thailand and 
toured Australia for the bicentenary celebrations.

In March 1990, she and the Prince of Wales toured Nigeria and Cameroon. The President of Cameroon 
hosted an official dinner to welcome them in Yaoundé. In May 1990, they visited Hungary for four days. 
They attended a dinner hosted by interim President Árpád Göncz and viewed a fashion display at the 
Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. In November 1990, the royal couple went to Japan to attend the 
enthronement of Emperor Akihito. In 1991, the Princess and Prince of Wales visited Queen’s University in 
Kingston, Ontario, where they presented the university with a replica of their royal charter. In September 1991, 
the Princess visited Pakistan on a solo trip, and went to Brazil with Charles. During their tour in Brazil, Diana 
visited the orphanage and an Aids Treatment Centre for children and met the Brazilian President Fernando 
Collor de Mello and First Lady Rosane Collor in Brasília. Her final trips with Charles were to India and South 
Korea in 1992.

In 1992, the Princess of Wales visited Egypt. She was invited to stay at the British Ambassador’s villa. 

In February 1995, the Princess visited Japan. She paid formal visits to Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko, 
Crown Prince Naruhito, and Crown Princess Masako. She visited a daycare centre for children with learning 
difficulties, the Yokohama War Cemetery, and the National Children’s Hospital, where she gave the opening 
line of her speech in Japanese. In June 1995, Diana went to Venice to visit the Venice Biennale art festival. 
In November 1995, the Princess undertook a four-day trip to Argentina and met with President Carlos Menem 
and his daughter, Zulemita, for lunch. The Princess visited many other countries, including Belgium, Nepal, 
Switzerland, and Zimbabwe. Her final official engagement was a visit to Northwick Park Hospital, London, 
on 21 July 1997.



5-3ib Charity work and patronage

In 1983 she confided in the then-Premier of Newfoundland, Brian Peckford, “I am finding it very difficult to cope 
with the pressures of being Princess of Wales, but I am learning to cope with it.” As Princess of Wales, she was 
expected to make regular public appearances at hospitals, schools, and other facilities, in the 20th century 
model of royal patronage. From the mid-1980s, she became increasingly associated with numerous charities. 
She carried out 191 official engagements in 1988 and 397 in 1991. The Princess developed an intense interest 
in serious illnesses and health-related matters outside the purview of traditional royal involvement, including 
AIDS and leprosy.

In addition to health-related matters, Diana’s extensive charity work included campaigning for animal protection 
and her fight against the use of landmines. She was the patroness of charities and organisations working with the 
homeless, youth, drug addicts, and the elderly. From 1989, she was president of Great Ormond Street Hospital 
for Children. From 1991 to 1996, she was a patron of Headway, a brain injury association. She was patron of 
Natural History Museum and president of Royal Academy of Music. From 1984 to 1996, she was president of 
Barnardo’s, a charity founded by Dr. Thomas John Barnardo in 1866 to care for vulnerable children and young 
people. In 1988, she became patron of the British Red Cross and supported its organisations in other countries 
such as Australia and Canada. In 1992, she became the first patron of Chester Childbirth Appeal, a charity that 
she had supported since 1984. The charity, which is named after one of Diana’s royal titles, could raise over 
£1 million with her help.

Her patronages also included Landmine Survivors Network, Help the Aged, the Trust for Sick Children in Wales, 
the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, the British Lung Foundation, the National AIDS Trust, 
Eureka!, the National Children’s Orchestra, Royal Brompton Hospital, British Red Cross Youth, Relate Marriage 
Counselors, the Guinness Trust, Meningitis Trust, Dove House, the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children, 
the Royal School for the Blind, Welsh National Opera, the Pre-School Playgroups Association, the Variety Club 
of New Zealand, Birthright, and the British Deaf Association. She made several lengthy visits each week to Royal 
Brompton Hospital, where she worked to comfort seriously ill or dying patients. She visited Mother Teresa’s 
hospice in Kolkata, India, in 1992, and the two women developed a personal relationship.

In June 1995, the Princess made a brief trip to Moscow, where she visited a children’s hospital that she had 
previously supported through her charity work. Diana presented the hospital with medical equipment. During her 
time in the Russian capital, she was awarded the international Leonardo prize, which is given to the most 
distinguished patrons and people in the arts, medicine, and sports. In December 1995, Diana received the United 
Cerebral Palsy Humanitarian of the Year Award in New York City for her philanthropic efforts. In October 1996, 
for her works on the elderly, the Princess received a gold medal at a health care conference organised by the 
Pio Manzù Centre in Rimini, Italy.

The day after her divorce, she announced her resignation from over 100 charities to spend more time with only six: 
Centrepoint, English National Ballet, Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Leprosy Mission, National AIDS Trust, 
and the Royal Marsden Hospital. She continued her work with the British Red Cross Anti-Personnel Land Mines 
Campaign, but was no longer listed as patron.

In May 1997, the Princess opened the Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts in Leicester, after 
being asked by her friend Richard Attenborough. In June 1997, her dresses and suits were sold at Christie’s 
auction houses in London and New York, and the proceeds that were earned from these events were donated to 
charities.



5-3j Areas of work

5-3ja Leprosy

In November 1989, the Princess visited a leprosy hospital in Indonesia. She became patron of the Leprosy 
Mission, an organisation dedicated to providing medicine, treatment, and other support services to those who 
are afflicted with the disease. She remained the patron of this charity until her death in 1997, and visited several 
of its hospitals around the world, especially in India, Nepal, Zimbabwe and Nigeria. She famously touched those 
affected by the disease when many people believed it could be contracted through casual contact. “It has always 
been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are 
we repulsed,” she commented. The Diana Princess of Wales Health Education and Media Centre in Noida, India, 
was opened in her honour in November 1999, funded by the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund to give social 
support to the people affected by leprosy and disability.



5-3jb HIV/AIDS

The Princess began her work with AIDS victims in the 1980s. In 1989, she opened Landmark Aids Centre in 
South London. She was not averse to making physical contact with AIDS patients, though it was still unknown 
whether the disease could be spread that way. Diana was the first British royal figure to contact AIDS patients. 
One of her early efforts to de-stigmatise the condition included holding hands of an AIDS patient in 1987. 
Diana noted: “HIV does not make people dangerous to know. You can shake their hands and give them a hug. 
Heaven knows they need it. What’s more, you can share their homes, their workplaces, and their playgrounds 
and toys.” To Diana’s disappointment, the Queen did not support this type of charity work, suggesting she get 
involved in “something more pleasant”. In October 1990, Diana opened Grandma’s House, a home for young AIDS 
victims in Washington, D.C. She was also a patron of the National AIDS Trust. In 1991, she famously hugged one 
victim during a visit to the AIDS ward of the Middlesex Hospital. As the patron of Turning Point, a health and social 
care organisation, Diana visited its project in London for people with HIV/AIDS in 1992.

In March 1997, Diana visited South Africa, where she met with President Nelson Mandela. On 2 November 2002, 
Mandela announced that the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund would be teaming up with the Diana, Princess of 
Wales Memorial Fund to help victims of AIDS. They had planned the combination of the two charities a few months 
before her death. “When she stroked the limbs of someone with leprosy or sat on the bed of a man with HIV/AIDS 
and held his hand, she transformed public attitudes and improved the life chances of such people,” Mandela said 
about the late Princess. Diana had used her celebrity status to “fight stigma attached to people living with 
HIV/AIDS”, Mandela said.






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