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/prˈɪnsɛs əv weɪlz/ Listen

Princess of Wales

noun

English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997). Synonyms: Diana, Lady Diana Frances Spencer, Princess Diana.

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... day that these unhappy people of Kent were coming to London, there returned from Canterbury the king's mother, princess of Wales, coming from her pilgrimage. She was in great jeopardy to have been lost, for these people came to her chare and dealt rudely with her, whereof the good lady was in great doubt lest they would have done ...

— Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) • Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

... gentlemen was as well as the common innkeeper and his daughter. The latter literally gasped with horror at this foreign insolence, this impudence before her ladyship—who was English, now that she was Sir Percy's wife, and a friend of the Princess of Wales to boot. ...

— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

Words linked to "Princess of Wales" : female aristocrat, Princess Diana, Lady Diana Frances Spencer