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- NOTES: Lady Diana Spencer (before her marriage to Charles) was popularly known as: "Shy Di". Diana Spencer's ancestry (through her father) links her with more than one King and she and Prince Charles are 16th cousins, once removed. Diana weighed 7 lbs. 12 oz. at birth. She is 5' 10" tall, has blond hair and blue eyes. Diana's descent from Frank Work links her with many famous Americans: George Washington, John Adams (2nd U.S. Pres.), The Roosevelt family, Calvin Coolidge, John Pierpont Morgan, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa M. Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Erle Stanley Gardner, General George Patton, George Gallup (of Gallup polls fame) Nelson Bunker Hunt, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart and Lee Remick, among others. Their engagement was announced by Buckingham Palace on 24 February 1981.
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