Diana Attempted Suicide Numerous Times

In recent years, the Royal Family and mental health issues have dominated the press. Of course, these things are nothing new; over the years, they were just mostly kept under wraps. Being a royal may be stressful and demanding, especially for individuals who married into the family and weren't raised to anticipate the same amount of attention and duty that the Family are used to. Princess Diana also had to cope with that, but Meghan Markle only recently did. She struggled mightily under it, too.

In the 1990s, Andrew Morton published a book titled "Diana - Her True Story." He claimed Diana had made numerous attempts to end her life, often in grisly ways. Among other things, she attempted to slit her own wrists and fall down stairs. All of this was regarded as hearsay at the time. the claims that a writer was attempting to sell books. Some people accepted them as fact; others did not. However, recordings of her conversing on this subject surfaced years later, proving that she was genuinely unhappy and had made an attempt at suicide.

Born: Diana Frances Spencer, 1 July 1961, Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
Died: 31 August 1997 (aged 36), Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France