Princess Diana

It was July 29, 1981. For days, joyful, excited crowds had been gathering along the streets of London. Hundreds of British flags hung from balconies and windows. People held posters of the nation's future king and the woman he was about to marry. They sang songs and drank toasts to the happy couple. It seemed that the city was in the middle of a giant party. The object of the crowd’s attention woke early that morning. Lady Diana Spencer had a lot to do. Stylists came to arrange her shoulder-length blonde hair and apply makeup to her fair skin. Designers fluttered around Diana, dressing her in a long ivory gown with a 25-foot (7.6 meter) train. Today was the day of Lady Diana’s wedding to the Prince of Wales, and a day of national celebration.