Editing Diana, Princess of Wales (section)

===Titles and styles===
[[File:Royal Monogram of Princess Diana of Wales.svg|thumb|upright|[[Royal monogram]]]]

Diana was born with the style of "The Honourable Diana Frances Spencer". When her father inherited the Earldom of Spencer in 1975, she became entitled to the style of "Lady Diana Spencer".<ref name="royal">{{cite web|url=https://www.royal.uk/diana-princess-wales|title=Diana, Princess of Wales|work=The Royal Family|access-date=21 April 2023}}</ref> During her marriage, Diana was styled as "Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales". She additionally bore the titles [[Duchess of Rothesay]],<ref name="Titles-Guardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/mar/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview2|title=Lay of the last duchess|work=The Guardian|first=Ian|last=Jack|date=11 March 2005|accessdate=29 April 2021|quote=Diana Spencer had also been the Duchess of Rothesay, and of Cornwall, the Baroness Renfrew, etc, as well as the Princess of Wales.}}</ref> [[Duchess of Cornwall]],<ref name="Titles-Guardian" /> [[Countess of Chester (title)|Countess of Chester]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/diana-death-how-chester-reacted-13551062|title=How Chester came to a standstill in the aftermath of Princess Diana's untimely death|date=31 August 2017|work=Chester Chronicle|accessdate=29 April 2021|first=Carmella|last=de Lucia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia-30-years-princess-diana-7290382|title= Help hospital recreate historic day|date=19 June 2014|work=Chester Chronicle|accessdate=29 April 2021|first=Carmella|last=de Lucia|quote=This year the hospital is celebrating three decades since Diana, Princess of Wales officially opened the building, and as a result it was named in her honour.}}</ref> and [[Baroness of Renfrew]].<ref name="Titles-Guardian" /> After her divorce in 1996 and until her death, she was known as "Diana, Princess of Wales", without the style of "Her Royal Highness".<ref name="royal" /> Though popularly referred to as "Princess Diana", that style is incorrect and one she never held officially.{{efn|With rare exceptions (such as [[Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester]], who was given permission by Queen Elizabeth II), only princesses by birth use the title "Princess" before their given names.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42150762|title=Why Prince Harry's wife will not be called Princess Meghan|work=BBC News|date=30 November 2017|accessdate=31 March 2023}}</ref>}} She is still sometimes referred to in the media as "Lady Diana Spencer" or colloquially as "Lady Di". In a speech after her death, Tony Blair referred to Diana as "the people's princess".<ref name="title3">{{Cite news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1556863/Tony-coined-the-peoples-princess.html|title = Tony coined the 'people's princess{{'-}}|newspaper = The Telegraph|location = London|date = 9 July 2007|access-date = 23 June 2015|url-status=live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150622155727/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1556863/Tony-coined-the-peoples-princess.html|archive-date = 22 June 2015|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hare |first=Breeanna |date=31 August 2020 |title=How Diana became known as 'the people's princess' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/world/princess-diana-death-the-windsors-series/index.html |access-date=19 May 2024 |work=CNN}}</ref> Discussions were also held with the Spencer family and the British royal family as to whether Diana's HRH style needed to be restored posthumously, but Diana's family decided that it would be against her wishes and, thus, no formal offer was made.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/diana/hrh.html|title=Palace and Spencers Agree: No HRH|work=BBC News|date=8 September 1997|accessdate=17 April 2021}}</ref>