Was Princess Diana considered upper class before she married Prince Charles?

Question

Was Princess Diana considered upper class before she married Prince Charles?

Answer 1

Oh please!!!! She was Lady Diana Spencer, the daughter of an Earl. An Earl is about 2 down from a Prince. She was part of the British Aristocracy the moment she was conceived, nevermind when she married Charles.

Answer 2

Yes- she was considered to be royalty by

virute of her father's title as the Earl

of Spencer.

Answer 3

yeah

Answer 4

Yes she was. She was the daughter of the Earl Spencer and her Title was The Lady Diana Spencer.

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

Yes she was. Diana was a member of the aristocracy,the titled gentry.She was LADY Diana Spencer,daughter of the 8th Earl Spencer.Her family is even considered to be more grand than the Windsors,the Spencers being one of the most aristocratic in England.The Spencer bloodline includes two kings,a Duke and a saint.Her ancestry even linked her as an eleventh cousin to Charles.

Answer 7

Was Lady Diana Spencer, third daughter of the 8th Earl Spencer posh before she became Princess of Wales?

Hmmm. Let me just consult this copy of Debrett's I happen to have handy, and "The Sloane Ranger's Handbook".

Oh, hang on. She's on the cover of "The Sloane Ranger's Handbook". The "Sloane Range" poster girl, if you like.

I think the smart money would probably go with "Yes".

Answer 8

Any potential bride of the Prince of Wales in 1981 would have had to have been aristocratic or royal, a virgin (or at least a girl with no known sexual history), and a Protestant.

Lady Diana Frances Spencer, third daughter of Edward John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later Earl Spencer, and the Honourable Frances Burke Roche perfectly fit that job description--too bad that Prince Charles and his advisors didn't look at similarity of interests, ages, and temperment.

---Among the Honourable Diana Spencer's god parents was John Floyd, Chairman of Christie's.

---Diana Spencer's maternal grandmother was Ruth, Lady Fermoy, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

---Diana Spencer was a descendant of the House of Stuart by way of Charles II through two illegitimate sons, Henry Fitzroy and Charles Lennox, as well as a descendant of James II through Henrietta Fitzjames, a daughter; she was a descendant of the Plantagnet line through Mary Bolelyn and was a descendant of the Tudors via Lady Catherine Gray and Lady Margaret Clifford.  She was related to all eleven Dukes of Marlborough and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

---Lady Diana Spencer finished up her schooling at Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland, after failing her O levels twice.  By way of contrast, Sarah Ferguson attended a secretarial college upon finishing school as did Sophie Rhys-Jones.

---Before she turned 17, Lady Diana Spencer's dad purchased an apartment for her in the Earls Court district of London,  then a relatively inexpensive housing area within walking distance to High Street Kensington.*  

I'd say all of the above qualifies Princess Diana as upper class before she married Prince Charles.

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*Those of us who received a portable type writer as a present at this time, demand a recount.

Answer 9

yes she was.Diana  had more royal blood in her the Princes charles and she was pure English and he is mostly German

Answer 10

Yes, her father was the 8th Earl Spencer, the title is currently held by her brother.

It is widely believed that one of the main reasons for Charles marrying Diana was her class and it was for this reason the marriage was bound to fail.