FAMOUS PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN Elina Avanesova Claass

FAMOUS PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN Elina Avanesova Claass 5 А Lyceum № 15 Paytigorsk

Diana, Princess of Wales, formerly Lady Diana Frances Spencer, was born on 1 July 1961 at Park House near Sandringham, Norfolk. She was the youngest daughter Lady Diana was educated first at a preparatory school, Riddlesworth Hall at Diss, Norfolk, and then in 1974 went as a boarder to West Heath, near Sevenoaks, Kent. At school she showed a particular talent for music (as an accomplished pianist), dancing and domestic science, and gained the school's award for the girl giving maximum help to the school and her schoolfellows. She left West Heath in 1977 and went to finishing school at the Institute Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland, which she left after the Easter term of 1978. The following year she moved to a flat in Coleherne Court, London. For a while she looked after the child of an American couple, and she worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico.

On 24 February 1981 it was officially announced that Lady Diana was to marry The Prince of Wales. As neighbours at Sandringham until 1975, their families had known each other for many years, and Lady Diana and the Prince had met again when he was invited to a weekend at Althorp in November 1977. They were married at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 29 July 1981, in a ceremony which drew a global television and radio audience estimated at around 1, 000 million people, and hundreds of thousands of people lining the route from Buckingham Palace to the Cathedral. The wedding reception was at Buckingham Palace

During her marriage, the Princess was president or patron of over 100 charities. The Princess did much to publicise work on behalf of homeless and also disabled people, children and people with HIV/Aids. In December 1993, the Princess announced that she would be reducing the extent of her public life in order to combine 'a meaningful public role with a more private life'.

In June, 1982 the Princess of Wales gave birth to her first son, Prince William, and in September, 1984 she gave birth to her second child Prince Henry. The Royal family hoped that with birth of the sons peace would reign in the family. But the hopes appeared to be vain. Charles and Diana were moving away from each other. The situation became even worse, when the Princess understood, that heart of the Prince belongs to another woman — Camilla Parker-Bowles (later, in 1986, it became known, that he renewed the relations with her). Then Diana, in her turn, began to take lessons of horse riding from the major Hewitt, a heart breaker from the high society. The exposing scandalous photos and overheard telephone conversations of the husband wife appeared in mass media. Since autumn 1987 the couple began to spend practically all the time separately. In December, 1992 the Prime Minister John Major announced to the Parliament, that Diana and Charles were going to divorce. The official divorce was held in August, 1996. Several last weeks of her life Princess Diana spent together with her friend Daddy Al-Fayed, 41 years old, the senior son of the Egyptian billionaire Mohammed Al-Fayed, the owner of the most fashionable London shop «Harrods» , Paris hotel «Ritz» , and a lot of others.

The tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales occurred on Sunday, 31 August 1997 following a car accident in Paris, France. The vehicle in which the Princess was travelling was involved in a highspeed accident in the Place de l'Alma underpass in central Paris shortly before midnight on Saturday, 30 August. The Princess was taken to the La Pitie Salpetriere Hospital, where she underwent two hours of emergency surgery before being declared dead at 0300 BST. The Princess's companion, Mr Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the vehicle died in the accident, whilst a bodyguard was seriously injured.

The famous English writer Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, known to readers around the world under the name of her first husband as Agatha Christie, was born on 15 September 1890 in Torquay. Her parents were rich emigrants from the United States of America, and the girl herself was the youngest of all the children. Her mother, Clarissa Margaret Boehmer, was the daughter of a British Army captain, and his father, Frederick Miller, worked as a stockbroker. Agatha lost her father very early. The girl received an excellent education at home, mostly music, but the fear of performing in front of a large number of people killed in her that gift.

In 1914, Agatha Miller was first married, her lover was the Colonel Archibald Christie. In marriage, a daughter, Rosalind, and it was during this period was a turning point in the creative life of Agatha. The girl believed that the detectives, written by a woman, will not be in demand among the contingent of reading and would like to publish under some man's name. However, the publisher insisted on the real name of the writer, and it has paid off. The first ten novels that did not belong to the detective genre, was published under the pseudonym Mary Uestmakkot. In 1920 came the publication of the first detective book - "The mysterious crime Stiles" ("The Mysterious Affair at Styles"), according to historians, the work is born of the writer in a dispute with her older sister. The book was rejected by publishers more than five times. At first edition was quite stingy, and only the seventh book Christie won the round in 2000 copies, and the author herself has received a fee of £ 25.

Everything seems to be going well, but in the life of Agatha began losing streak - in 1926, her mother died, and then her husband Christie declared his love for the other, and asked for a divorce. Stunned this betrayal, the writer left the house. A few days of her wanted by the police, worried admirers of her talent. After a while a woman is registered under the name of Teresa Neal, found in the spa-hotel "Swan Hydropathic Hotel". Agatha refused to comment on such a strange act, but the press and the doctors had their own speculation. Health workers diagnosed amnesia, but a psychologist Andrew Norman in his book "Ready portrait" ("The Finished Portrait") denied this fact, as Christie deliberately took the surname and the name of her husband's mistress and lived under her initials. Other sources claimed that the disappearance was planned to avenge the wrong husband, who had already suspect in the murder of his wife. Despite all the arguments in the 1928 marriage of Agatha and Archibald came to an end, and in his book "The Unfinished Portrait" ("Unfinished Portrait") mentioned by some of the details, reminiscent of the story.

Despite family problems, career Christie went up the hill - a real success came to her after the release of the novel "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" ("The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"). A little later, there are new characters - intelligent Hercule Poirot, comic Captain Hastings and elderly Miss Marple. They were the heroes of novels such as "Poirot investigates" ("Poirot Investigates"), the already mentioned "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" ("The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"), "Evening Club" Tuesday "(" The Tuesday Night Club "), "Death on the Nile" ("Death on the Nile"). It is important to note that the inverse image of Miss Marple was a real person - he was the beloved grandmother of Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie died at home in Wallingford on 12 January 1976. She deserves the title of Queen of the detective.

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