Diana Frances Spencer was born on 1 July 1961 at Park House in Sandringham, a rented property on the Royal Family's private estate. The Spencer family descend from a long line of aristocrats who were close to the British royal family for decades.

The last of the Spencers left Park House in 1974. Nine years later, in 1983, Queen Elizabeth donated it to the disability charity Leonard Cheshire. In 1987 it opened its doors as an accessible country hotel for people with a range of conditions, including Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy and spinal injuries, but it was sadly forced to close in 2020 due to mounting repair costs, following the pandemic, and has been returned to the Sandringham Estate, say reports.

Diana at home: the People's Princess and the places she lived