1. What makes this person famous?
Princess Diana was famous for her charitable work and death as well as her relation to the royal family in New South Wales, House of Windsor.
Diana used her influential status to positively assist the campaign against landmines, a cause which won the Nobel Prize in 1997 in tribute, and with helping to decrease discrimination against victims of AIDS.
"In 1987, when so many still believed that AIDS could be contracted through casual contact, Princess Diana sat on the sickbed of a man with AIDS and held his hand. She showed the world that people with AIDS deserve no isolation, but compassion and kindness. It helped change world's opinion, and gave hope to people with AIDS."
-Bill Clinton
Diana should be credited with at least trying to bring to world attention the terrible damage such mines create in whole communities.
2. Which one particular thing did she do that shot her to fame?
On 31 August 1997 Diana died after a high speed car accident in a road tunnel in Paris along with Dodi Al-Fayed, her rumored lover at that time, and their driver Henri Paul. Blood analysis shows that Henri Paul was illegally intoxicated while driving. Tests confirmed that original postmortem blood samples were from driver Henri Paul, and that he had three times the French legal limit of alcohol in his blood. Conspiracy theorists had claimed that Paul's blood samples were swapped with blood from someone else—who was drunk—and contended that the driver had not been drinking on the night Diana died. Their black Mercedes-Benz sedan crashed into the thirteenth pillar of the tunnel. The two-lane tunnel was built without metal barriers between the pillars, so a slight change in vehicle direction could easily result in a head-on collision with the tunnel pillar. Fayed's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was closest to the point of impact and yet the only survivor of the crash; he was the only one to be wearing a seatbelt. Henri Paul and Dodi Fayed were killed instantly, and Diana — unbelted in the back seat- slid forward during the impact and, having been violently thrown around the interior, "submarined" under the seat in front of her, suffering massive damage to her heart and subsequent internal bleeding. She was eventually, after considerable delay, transported by ambulance to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, but on the way to casualty went into cardiac arrest twice. Despite lengthy resuscitation attempts, including internal cardiac massage, she died at 4 a.m. local time. Her funeral on 6 September 1997 was broadcast and watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide.
3. What makes this person considered 'crazy'?
Her numerous affairs with people from all walks from life, eg. her horse instructor, bodyguard, banker, property developer, singer, heart surgeon, art dealer, rugby player ETC, although they were just rumours and there is little evidence to support the idea that her relationships with these men were anything more than friendships.
Also, during one of the trips overseas for community work, she ventured to have close contact with an AIDs patient during a time when HIV was considered a deadly contagious disease and believed to be able to spread through body contact.
4. Do you think this person is truly a 'genius'? Why?
I do not think she is truly a genius. However, she has served the country and community well and I feel that this deserves our respect. Also, through numerous community work, she has helped changed many people's lives for the better and has definitely made the world a better place for many MANY people((:
