The newlyweds tour of Wales and the moment the nation fell in love with Diana". ITV News. 29 August 2017 . Retrieved 12 August 2018. The engagement and marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton gave us a taste of both Royal fever and the frantic efforts of minting authorities around the world to release collector coins celebrating both events. Circumstances were little different in 1980 and 1981 with many different coins being released world wide to celebrate the engagement and marriage of Charles and Diana. The Royal Australian Mint did not look like joining the party and Aussie collectors had almost resigned themselves to collecting British and other world issues celebrating the Royal marriage.

Imran and Jemima Khan Welcomed Princess Diana In Pakistan". Huffington Post. 25 May 2011. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014 . Retrieved 31 May 2013. The Charles and Diana coin was produced in 1981 to celebrate the wedding of then Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. More than 750 million worldwide TV viewers watched Charles, Prince of Wales, marry Lady Diana Spencer on Wednesday July 29th, 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral. Diana was born into British nobility, and grew up close to the royal family on their Sandringham estate. In 1981, while working as a nursery teacher's assistant, she became engaged to Charles, the eldest son of ElizabethII. Their wedding took place at StPaul's Cathedral in July 1981 and made her Princess of Wales, a role in which she was enthusiastically received by the public. The couple had two sons, William and Harry, who were then respectively second and third in the line of succession to the British throne. Diana's marriage to Charles suffered due to their incompatibility and extramarital affairs. They separated in 1992, soon after the breakdown of their relationship became public knowledge. Their marital difficulties were widely publicised, and the couple divorced in 1996.The next major issue was that which commemorated the passing of the great politician and Prime Minister Winston Churchill; a staggering total of almost 20million crowns were minted with his image in 1965. The 1981 Wedding Coin a b c "It was love at first sight between British people and Lady Diana". The Leader Post. London. AP. 15 July 1981 . Retrieved 23 July 2013.

Fromson, Brett (4 June 1995). "Dealmaker of the Decade". The Washington Post . Retrieved 14 March 2018.Romo, Vanessa (20 May 2021). "Princes William And Harry Say BBC Interview Led To Princess Diana's Divorce And Death". NPR . Retrieved 31 March 2023. Together with her two elder sisters Sarah (born 1955), Jane (born 1957) and her brother Charles (born 1964), Diana continued to live with her father at Park House, Sandringham, until the death of her grandfather, the 7th Earl Spencer. In 1975, the family moved to the Spencer seat at Althorp (a stately house dating from 1508) in Northamptonshire, in the English Midlands. Diana was a long-standing and active supporter of Centrepoint, a charity which provides accommodation and support to homeless people, and became patron in 1992. [270] [271] She supported organisations that battle poverty and homelessness, including the Passage. [272] Diana was a supporter of young homeless people and spoke out on behalf of them by saying that "they deserve a decent start in life". [273] "We, as a part of society, must ensure that young people—who are our future—are given the chance they deserve", she said. [273] Diana used to take young William and Harry for private visits to Centrepoint services and homeless shelters. [21] [270] [274] "The young people at Centrepoint were always really touched by her visits and by her genuine feelings for them", said one of the charity's staff members. [275] Prince William later became the patron of this charity. [270] Visiting the drug squad of the West Midlands Police in 1987 Text of Charles and Diana's divorce decree". CNN. 28 August 1996. Archived from the original on 6 March 2005 . Retrieved 11 December 2020.