Chapter 8 Eight, the years are like a song

A woman, where is the best time? Not as a woman, not as a wife or mother, but just out of adolescence, freed from the constraints of parental rules and family relationships, youthful, energetic, with enough dreams to come true, There are enough paths to choose, enough youth to squander.Those years, like a beautiful and smooth melody, chants in memory from time to time. Diana will always miss that happy and unrestrained life.After dropping out of school, Diana felt relieved and relaxed a lot.Like a flower, she unbuckles, becomes happier, more beautiful, more alive.As she matured, her femininity gradually emerged, and her sister's friends looked at her with admiration.Although shy and slightly overweight, she is becoming a popular person. "She's funny, pretty and charming, kind and lovely," a friend commented.

She was only 16 years old when she dropped out of school. Of course she couldn't do nothing, but she had no diploma and no skills. She just vaguely felt that she wanted to do work related to children, but she didn't know what to do or how to do it. .She went to London to make a living, worked as a waitress for private parties, and worked as a sweeper for very little pay.Later, it was her biological mother who worried about her future.The capable lady wrote to a well-known dance teacher who had taught three generations of royal children, asking if she could find a place for her daughter Diana to teach second-grade children dance.Diana passed the interview and has been working as a dance teacher since the spring semester.This job combines her interest in children with her love of dance, and she has a lot of fun doing it.

But the job of being a dance teacher is by no means Diana's destination, she will go in another direction after all.Three months later, her dream of being a dance teacher was shattered again. That March, her friend Maryanne Stewart-Richardson invited her and her family to a skiing holiday in the Swiss Alps.On a ski slope, Diana fell hard and tore the tendon in her left ankle.Over a period of up to 3 months, she wore a plaster cast several times.The injured tendon slowly healed, but her wish to become a dance teacher was shattered. Among girls of equal rank and background, Diana was not a very remarkable girl.Aristocratic families have always paid attention to cultivating boys and despised girls.After the girls finally finished their cooking and art classes, they were pushed on the stage of marriage and chose the right man.This has become an unspoken convention.In the early days of the reign of the current Queen, the high society in London also held parties at Buckingham Palace for the children of nobles who were new to the social world to introduce each other.This is a remake of past London social season events.The evening was followed by a series of dances to facilitate the socializing of young women.Diana's parents met at the dance held by the family in April 1953, and her stepmother, Ryan, was selected as "Miss Pretty of the Year" that year.

Not long after Diana returned from Switzerland, her sister Jenny asked her to be the bridesmaid at her wedding.Jenny and the Queen's real estate manager at Sandringham Manor, the current Queen's private secretary, Robert Floss, held a wedding in Gards Church in April 1978. It was at that wedding that the beautiful Diana attracted attention. Attention royals. Diana, who had nothing to do, was assigned by her parents to their friends, the photographer Major Jeremy Whitaker and his wife Philippa, to help them with their children, laundry, and cooking. Three months later, she began to ask her father to allow her to live in London.In the end, her father relented and her mother allowed her to live in her London flat.Diana lived here for 1 year.At first, she lived in her mother's apartment with two middle school classmates.

She was often called to see the children by her sisters' married friends, and Sara used to use Diana as a substitute at her frequent soirees. Diana didn't smoke or drink. She went shopping, listened to pop music, read popular romance novels, and chatted endlessly with her friends on the phone. She prefers to go to cheap restaurants for dinner and never set foot in wild dance parties, loud nightclubs or smoky bars. Judging from her way of life, she is just an ordinary, quiet girl. In order to maintain her own life, she signed up for two employment agencies, "Your Problem Solving" and "Natsbridge Nanny". Worked as a hostess and cleaner at private parties.Lucinda Craig Harvey used to share a room with Sarah in London before she hired Diana as a cleaner for £1 an hour.

Her weekends were usually spent in the country at Althorp Hall with her father and sisters, or at home evenings with some of her friends.Her Norfolk and West Heath school friends and schoolmates Alexandra Lloyd, Caroline Bartholomew and others, all living in London at the time, remain her bosom friends. In September 1978, she spent a weekend in Norfolk with her friend Caroline.It was at this time that she suddenly had an annoying premonition.When friends asked her about her father's health, she surprised everyone with her answer.She unconsciously said that her father "was dying". "If he wants to die, he will go suddenly, otherwise, he will survive." The next day, the phone rang, and Diana knew it was news about her father.If so, Earl Spencer suddenly had a massive cerebral hemorrhage, fell in the yard of Althorp Manor, and was sent to Northampton General Hospital for emergency treatment.Diana hurriedly packed her bags and rushed home to tide over the difficulties with her sister and brother.

The condition is so serious that doctors don't think he will make it through the night.If the father dies, then the stepmother's reign is coming to an end.Wren seemed to be in the know, saying to Jenny's husband, "I'm leaving Althorp early tomorrow morning." The children spent two days and nights in the hospital waiting room while their father lay dying.When doctors declared there was hope, Wren arranged for a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital in Queen's Square, central London.There, he lay unconscious for several months.During the period when the family waited for their father, the children saw very clearly the tyrannical stubbornness of their stepmother-she refused to let the children visit their dying father.She instructs the nurses to prevent them from visiting Earl Spencer, who lies hopelessly in a private ward.

During the period when the father was critically ill, the resentment between the stepmother and the children broke out in full swing.In the corridor of the hospital there was a lot of noise, and the countess and Sarah were like two cross-eyed roosters, accusing each other. In November, Earl Spencer's condition worsened again, but under the action of a German drug called "Aslocillin", the Earl finally woke up. In January 1979, he was finally released from the hospital.Wren and he rented an expensive senior suite at the Dorchester Hotel on Park Avenue and began a nine-month recovery.

Days before her father suffered a stroke, Diana signed up for a cooking class.For three months, she took the Tube to Elizabeth Russell's house in Wimbledon, where she learned to make a variety of delicious sauces, cakes and shortbread.Her schoolmates were the daughters of lords, dukes, and earls.She took the cooking class because her parents insisted.At the time she didn't think the course was interesting, but it seemed better than sitting in front of a typewriter every day.Her inability to concentrate on her studies is a given.Sometimes her gluttonous nature got the better of her, and she was often scolded for dipping her fingers into pots of sticky syrup.By the end of the class, she had gained several pounds and received a certificate of completion for her hard work.

In July 1979, Diana moved into a £50,000 three-bedroom apartment, a coming-of-age gift from her parents; 60 Callahorn soon became the most famous address in Britain.As soon as Diana moved into the apartment, she immediately set out to furnish the rooms in an intimate but simple style.Originally white walls were repainted in woad, the living room was painted canary yellow, and the bathroom was a bright shade with tiny red dots. Diana had promised her childhood friend Caroline Bartholomew a room once she had a place of her own.She kept her promise.Sophie Kimball and Philiba Kirk also lived there for a while.In August of that year, Diana and Caroline had two more companions: Anne Poulton and Virginia Pittman.Among the four of them, Diana was the oldest.All three partners lived with her throughout her courtship with Prince Charles.

As a landlord, she charges £18 per person per week and takes turns cleaning.She of course lived in the largest room, with a double bed, and her bedroom door had "Mistress" plastered on it.Caroline recalled: "She walked around like a little hen, always wearing rubber gloves on her hands, but it was her house. When you stand in your own house, of course you also would be very proud of it.” Although both Diana and Virginia had taken advanced culinary skills classes, the girls rarely cooked and never had to worry about piles of dirty dishes.Diana's specialty dishes were chocolate roulade and borscht, which were usually eaten up by the girls.Young girls also love chocolate."We're all getting fat," Caroline said. Before long, Diana found a new job.Two afternoons a week, she goes to the "Young Britain" kindergarten run by Victoria Wilson and Kay Sain Smith, teaching children painting, drawing and dancing, and playing games with the children.Victoria and Smith were so pleased with her work that they soon asked her to come to work in the morning as well.On Tuesdays and Thursdays, she babysits for the owner of an American oil company. Her sister Sara personally arranged for her to clean her house in Elm Park Lane in Chelsea, London, during the odd hours of the weekdays.Lucinda Craig Harvey, who once shared a room with Sarah, recalled: "Diana worshiped Sarah as a hero, but Sarah regarded her as a shoe-shine cloth. She said to me You can ask Diana to do the dishes and do other things, don’t be embarrassed.” Vacuuming the floor, cleaning tables and chairs, ironing clothes and doing laundry are all Diana’s work, and she only gets paid £1 an hour , but she was never silent.When she became engaged to Prince Charles, Lucinda wrote to congratulate her.Diana wrote back about these experiences: "Gone are the days of being a cleaner. Can I go back and meet those people?" Her sister's mocking words would not please her.When they have nothing to do at night, Diana and Caroline often find some weird names from the phone book and call them to kill time.Another favorite way to pass the time was the two discussing how to raid their friends' houses and their cars.Caroline recalled: "We used to run out in the middle of the night, often driving Diana's car around London, looking for opportunities for mischief." Those who offended these girls had interesting rewards: doorbells would ring in the dead of night; emergency calls might come early in the morning; friends' car locks might be sealed with adhesive tape.James Gilbey, who was working for a car rental company in Victoria, found his best Alfa Romeo early one morning, smeared with eggs and flour, as hard as concrete.It was for some reason that he had missed an appointment to meet Diana.So Diana and Caroline retaliated against him. Of course, they were also rewarded.Adam Russell and James Gilbey once strapped a tin can to the bumper of Diana's car and it made a lot of noise.As a result, their car was once again wrapped in eggs and flour. Diana regarded those days in Colherne Street as the happiest of her life.It was such a childlike, innocent, carefree time and above all a lot of fun."I had a good laugh there," she said. The only downside was when her apartment was burglarized and most of her jewelry was stolen. The lively and beautiful Diana naturally has many suitors.She had a number of young friends of the opposite sex, but as one of her friends, James Colthurst, recalled, "we were just hanging out friends". The men in her life were virtuous, cultured, reliable and humble companions.Rory Scott said: "Diana was an uptown girl far from the downtown area. She never met a downtown man." Have more sympathy and affection for them.She washed the clothes of William van Straubenzee, who had been one of Sarah's boyfriends; she ironed the shirts of Rory Scott, who had just Columnar" TV documentary.But among the many male friends, no one was lucky enough to be her lover. The power of fate that she felt in the dark since she was a child has unknowingly dominated the way she interacts with the opposite sex. "I knew I had to clean myself up and let fate dictate my future," she said.Her close friend Caroline also said: "I don't believe in gods, but I believe that everything she does is God's will. She also believes that she is surrounded by a golden halo, and no man, whether he likes her or not, cannot approach her." she." The slim Diana is always so beautiful, but always a little distant; always so youthful, and always a little detached, a group of young boyfriends will never be able to see her true face. God arranged everything, Sleeping Beauty waited for a hundred years, just for the prince's affectionate kiss, the love of the beautiful princess is waiting for the prince's arrival.Diana's beauty, because of the appearance of the prince, has since become the focus of the world's attention and the media's pursuit.