year-old Diana became The Princess of Wales when she married Charles in 1981. It was widely billed as a “fairytale wedding”, watched by a global television audience of 750 million. She wore a dress valued at £9,000 with a 25-foot (8-meter) train. During the early 1990s, the marriage fell apart, an event at first suppressed, then sensationalized, by the world media. Both the Prince and Princess of Wales allegedly spoke to the press through friends, each blaming the other for the marriage's demise. She received a settlement of around £17 million.
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