1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey guys, I hope you enjoy these classic 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: episodes from the t D I h C Vault. I'm 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: currently researching a new crop of stories for next year, 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: so be sure to join me again on January second 6 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: when we return with all new episodes. Talk to you soon. 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to This Day in History Class from how Stuff 8 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: Works dot com and from the desk of Stuff you 9 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: Missed in History Class. It's the show where we explore 10 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: the past one day at a time with a quick 11 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: look at what happened today in history. Hello, and welcome 12 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and it's December. 13 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: South Carolina seceded from the Union on this stay at 14 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty, and this is marked as a turning point 15 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: on the way to the US Civil War. And it was, 16 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: but disputes between northern and southern states, between free and 17 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: slave states have been going on for decades. By that point, 18 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: there had been a whole series of compromise as might 19 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: try to preserve the balance of power between free states 20 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 1: and slave states. As one example, there was the Missouri Compromise, 21 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: which allowed Missouri to be admitted into the Union as 22 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: a slave state, while Maine was split off for Massachusetts 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: and admitted as a free state. By eighteen sixty, even 24 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: after all of these compromises, things had grown progressively more tense. 25 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: Northern states had started abolishing slavery and passing laws to 26 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: prevent the return of escaped slaves to the states where 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 1: they had been held in bondage. There was increasing pressure 28 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:39,559 Speaker 1: on slave states to start abolishing slavery slave states. Dissatisfaction 29 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: with all this increased dramatically in eighteen fifty when California, 30 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: which is a free state, was admitted into the Union 31 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: without a corresponding slave state to preserve this balance of 32 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: power in Congress between slave and free. As the eighteen 33 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: sixty election approached, the prevailing wisdom was at the election 34 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: of a Republican president would guarantee that slaveholding states would 35 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: start breaking away from the Union. The Republican Party had 36 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: been founded six years earlier by anti slavery Whigs, and 37 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 1: the Republican president who was elected was Abraham Lincoln. He 38 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: was elected on November six, and on December twentieth, South 39 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: Carolina became the first state to secede. On December twenty four, 40 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: South Carolina adopted a declaration of the immediate causes which 41 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: induced and justify the secession of South Carolina from the 42 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:37,399 Speaker 1: Federal Union. It begins quote the people of the State 43 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: of South Carolina, in Convention assembled on the twenty six 44 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: day of April a. D. Eighteen fifty two, declared that 45 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States 46 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: by the Federal Government and its encroachments upon the reserved 47 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: rights of the States, fully justified this state and then 48 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: withdrawing from the Federal Union. But in deference to the 49 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: opinions and wishes of the other slaveholding states, she forbore 50 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: at that time to exercise this right. Since that time, 51 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: these encroachments have continued to increase, and further forbearance ceases 52 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: to be a virtue. In other words, we said we 53 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: had the right to succeed back in eighteen fifty two, 54 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: but because the other slaveholding states asked us not to, 55 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: we did not. But now we are. It goes on 56 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: about the idea of free, sovereign and independent states before 57 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: it gets around to what freedoms specifically we're talking about. 58 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: One of these is outlined an Article four of the Constitution. Quote, 59 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: no person held in service or labor in one state 60 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: under the laws thereof escaping into another, shall in consequence 61 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such 62 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim 63 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: of the party to whom such service or labor maybe do. 64 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: In other words, if or enslaved in one state and 65 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: you run away to another, you can't be just kept there. 66 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: You have to be sent back. That was in the Constitution. 67 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: This document then goes on to talk about the hostility 68 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: of the non slaveholding states to the slaveholding states, which 69 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: quote led to a disregard of their obligations, and the 70 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: document goes on to condemn abolition societies which have quote 71 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes, 72 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: and those who remain have been incited by emissaries, books 73 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: and pictures to servile insurrection. Towards the end, the statement says, 74 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: quote the slaveholding states will no longer have the power 75 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: of self government or self protection, and the federal government 76 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: will have become their enemy. A total of eleven states 77 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: seceded from the Union, several others repeatedly citing slavery as 78 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: their reason for doing so, and they formed the Confederate 79 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: States of America. The Civil ar began on April twelfth 80 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 1: of eighteen sixty one. Thanks to Casey Pegraham and Chandler 81 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: Maze for their audio work on this show. You can 82 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 1: subscribe to the Day in History Class on Apple Podcast, 83 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: Google Podcast, I Heart Radio app, and where else you 84 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: get podcast, and you can tune in tomorrow for an 85 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: infamous bombing. Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast. I'm Eves 86 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: and you're listening to this Day in History Class, a 87 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: podcast that really takes to heart the phrase you learn 88 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: something new every day. The day was December twentie, nineteen seven. 89 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,919 Speaker 1: The Philippine registered passenger ferry m V Don't You Pause sank, 90 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: claiming the lives of more than four thousand people. It 91 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: was the deadliest piece time ship wreck in history. Don't 92 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 1: You a Pause, originally called him A Yuti Madu, was 93 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: built by Onomichi Zosen in Hiroshima to Pan in nineteen 94 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: sixty three. It was first used as a passenger ferry 95 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: in Japanese waters, but it was later sold to a 96 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: Philippine operator who ran passenger ferries after the vessel was 97 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: destroyed in a fire in nineteen seventy nine. It returned 98 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: to service as a passenger ferry. In nineteen eighties seven, 99 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: Dona Pause was traveling between Tacloban, cat Boligan and Manila, 100 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: picking up passengers along the way. The vessel could officially 101 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: hold one thousand, five hundred and eighteen people and be 102 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: operated by a crew of sixty six. On December twentieth, 103 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: nineteen eighties seven, at six thirty a m. A Local time, 104 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: Dona Pause left Tacloban on the island of Later and 105 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: headed out for Manila in the Philippines, with a stop 106 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,799 Speaker 1: in cat Boligan, Samar. It made this trip a couple 107 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: of times a week. Meanwhile, an oil tanker named Empty 108 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: Vector was traveling from bata On to mas Batte, carrying 109 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: around eight thousand, eight hundred barrels of gasoline and other 110 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: petroleum products. Vector was chartered by cal Tex Philippines. That night, 111 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: while passengers were sleeping, as the ferry traveled through the 112 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: topless straight Vector and Donia Pause collided off Mindoro Island. 113 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: The lights on board Dona Pause went out and Vector's 114 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: cargo caught fire, sending gas and kerosene into the surrounding water. 115 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: The flames soon engulfed Dona Pause. Life jackets on the 116 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: ferry were reportedly inaccessible, and the crew did not organize 117 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: a rescue effort. This intensified the panic on board, and 118 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: people who survived the collision jumped off the ship into flaming, 119 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: shark infested water. Don'ta Pause sank within two hours of 120 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: the wreck, and Vector sank within four hours. The death 121 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: toll has been estimated at four thousand, three hundred and 122 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: eighty six people, but the Donia Pause was overcrowded at 123 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: the time of the disaster. Hundreds of passengers did not 124 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: buy tickets, but instead boarded the ship and paid a 125 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: lower fare. Those people were not listed on the Fairies 126 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: passenger list. Over the next few days, corpses floated in 127 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: the waters around the island of Mindoro. The Coast Guard 128 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: got word of the disaster and a search and rescue 129 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: operations soon began. Twenty four people survived the disaster. It 130 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: was later found that Donia Pause had no radio, hindering 131 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: communication between the two vessels. Salpico Lines, who operated the ferry, 132 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 1: claimed they followed all rules set by the Philippine Coast Guard, 133 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,079 Speaker 1: but the Board of Marine Inquiry determined that Sulpicio Lines 134 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: was not at fault, though overcrowding on Donia Pause was 135 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: part of the cause of the disaster. Vector was deemed 136 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: responsible by the Supreme Court of the Philippines because Victor 137 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: was so heavy two people had to steer it, causing 138 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: it to go in a zig zag motion towards Donia Pause, 139 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 1: which may have confused the Fairies crew. Also, Vector was 140 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: understabbed with underqualified crew. On top of that, the vessel 141 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: did not have a certificate of inspection. Families of the 142 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: victims received little compensation. I'm each Chef Coo and hopefully 143 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: you know a little more about history today than you 144 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: did yesterday. Send your best history means to us at 145 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: t D I h C podcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. 146 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: We also accept electronic letters at this day at I 147 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: heart media dot com. Thanks for listening and we'll see 148 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: you tomorrow. Hello, and welcome to this Day in History 149 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: class for those interested in the big and small moments 150 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: of history. I'm Gabe Louzier, and today we're talking about 151 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,839 Speaker 1: the time when a British monarch took the matter of 152 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: someone else's marriage into her own hands. The day was 153 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: December twenty Britain's Queen Elizabeth the second sent a letter 154 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: to her son, Prince Charles and his wife, Princess Diana, 155 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: urging the couple to get a divorce. The note was 156 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: sent after three years of married separation, during which time 157 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: both Charles and Diana had pursued other relationships. The protracted 158 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: royal scandal had troubled the Queen for some time, and 159 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: when she was finally convinced that their marriage was beyond repair, 160 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: she had ris them to make their split official. Prince Charles, 161 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: heir to the British throne, was married to Lady Diana Spencer, 162 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: a school teacher, on July night one. The ceremony at St. 163 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: Paul's Cathedral was attended by more than twenty six hundred guests, 164 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: and nearly a billion people across seventy four countries watched 165 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: the event live on TV. Three years later, the couple 166 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 1: had their first child, Prince William, and then their second, 167 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: Prince Harry, in four Over time, what had seemed like 168 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: a fairy tale romance gradually lost its luster. The couple 169 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: spent more and more time apart, a fact that did 170 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: not go ignored by the media. It quickly became clear 171 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: that the biggest obstacle in the marriage was that Charles 172 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: was in love with someone else. Diana had long suspe 173 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: affected that her husband still had feelings for Camilla Parker Bowls, 174 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: his ex girlfriend from the early nineteen seventies. Diana had 175 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: hoped that time and their own growing family would dull 176 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: the old attraction, but it never did. As the years 177 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:22,239 Speaker 1: went by, the couple grew more estranged, and Charles eventually 178 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: started an affair with Camilla. Diana knew about the not 179 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 1: so secret affair, and soon the whole world did too. Finally, 180 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: in nine two, Charles and Diana announced that they were separating, 181 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: but would continue to carry out their royal duties. The 182 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: awkward arrangement continued for three years and finally reached its 183 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: tipping point on November twentie. That evening, Diana gave a 184 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 1: revealing interview on a British current affairs program called Panorama. 185 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: During the broadcast, which was watched by almost twenty three 186 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: million people, Diana referenced her husband's long term affair with Camilla. 187 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,959 Speaker 1: She said, quote, there were three of us in this marriage, 188 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: an arrangement that she aptly described as crowded. Diana went 189 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: on to describe her husband's entourage as the enemy, and 190 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: suggested that the monarchy itself was in need of a 191 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: major overhaul. The revelations struck a chord with the public, 192 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: who quickly sided with the princess against the rest of 193 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: the royal family. One month after Diana's tell All interview, 194 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: a royal messenger appeared at her front door. He delivered 195 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: a letter in the Queen's handwriting, bearing the crest of 196 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: the House of Windsor. The message was kurt and more 197 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:54,599 Speaker 1: than a little cold. It read quote, I have consulted 198 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: with the Archbishop of Canterbury, and with the Prime Minister, 199 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: and of course with Charles, and we have decided that 200 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: the best course for you is divorce. You'll notice that 201 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 1: the letter reads more like an order than as a 202 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: request or suggestion. That's partly because Diana had already made 203 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: it known that she didn't want a divorce. The Queen's 204 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: letter was to tell the princess, in no uncertain terms, 205 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: that the choice was no longer hers to make. Diana 206 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: said as much herself. After reading the letter, She reportedly 207 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: told her butler, Paul Barrell, quote, that's rich. They get 208 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: to decide whether I divorce. In the end, the Queen 209 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: got her way, as queens typically do. Charles and Diana 210 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: filed for divorce two months later, and in August of 211 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: ninety six, their fifteen year marriage came to an end. 212 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: Per the terms of the final agreement, Diana relinquished the 213 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: title of her Royal Highness as well as any future 214 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: claim to the British throne. In exchange, she was awarded 215 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: a substantial settlement and was allowed to retain her place 216 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: at Kensington Palace, as well as her title of Princess 217 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: of Wales. She and Charles also agreed to joint custody 218 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: of their sons, but sadly, the terms of the separation 219 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: wouldn't matter for long. The following year, on August thirty one, 220 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: Diana died in a car crash in Paris. According to 221 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: French police, Diana's driver, who also died in the crash, 222 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: had been heavily intoxicated and caused the accident while trying 223 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: to get away from a group of paparazzi photographers. The 224 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 1: pain of that day still lingers for countless people, a 225 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: sure sign that Diana Spencer achieved a goal she first 226 00:15:55,640 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: described in her interview with Panorama, the desire to be 227 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: not a queen of a country, but a queen in 228 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: people's hearts. As for Prince Charles, he married his longtime 229 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: mistress in April of two thousand five, and the royal 230 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: family has been drama free ever since. I'm Gave Lousier 231 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: and hopefully you now know a little more about history 232 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: today than you did yesterday. You can learn even more 233 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: about history by following us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram 234 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: at t d I HC Show, And if you'd like 235 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: to advise me on any major life decisions, you can 236 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: send a rudely brief note to this day at I 237 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: heart media dot com. 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