First, prominent families

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Diana's family, the Spencer family, was already one of the richest wool merchants in Europe in the15th century.

By virtue of their wealth, her ancestors won the title of Earl in the period of Charles I, and received a family badge engraved with the motto "God bless power". At the same time, they built their ancestral home, Osop Palace, in Northampton, with a large collection of antiques, books and works of art. In the following three centuries, members of the Spencer family worked in the government and court, went in and out of the royal family and the Vatican, and their wives went in and out of Buckingham Palace.

Although the Spencer family is not the leading family in England, they have had several generations of friendship and contact with members of the British royal family. Who would have expected that three centuries later, a fairy tale combination of a beautiful and innocent little daughter and a handsome prince in their family ended in complete tragedy?

They are really an unusual family. They are related to King charles ii, Earl of marlborough, Earl of Devon, Duke of Aberdeen and even President franklin roosevelt of the United States. Diana's grandparents are more closely related to the royal family.

Edward VII was the godfather of Diana's grandfather, the old Earl Spencer, while Edward VIII, who "didn't love mountains and rivers, only loved beauty", formally pursued Diana's grandmother, Countess Spencer, who was still a girl at that time. Countess Spencer did not become queen, but later became the court maid of the late Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth.

The occupation of court maid has a long history in Britain, which is ancient and noble. They must be born into a noble family, either the daughter of the count or the duchess. They have a good upbringing, elegant aesthetic taste in clothes, good at rhetoric, good at dealing with all kinds of people and familiar with all kinds of etiquette in the court.

Diana's father, the late Earl Spencer, was a court attendant of King George VI in England and Queen Elizabeth today when he was young, and dated Princess Margaret, the queen's sister.

As for Diana's mother, her grandmother, Mrs. Fei Moi, was also the maid of the Queen Mother and served for more than 30 years. Diana's marriage to Charles was approved by the Queen Mother, which is closely related to her grandmother being a close friend of the Queen Mother. When she was young, Mrs. Fei Moi gave up her promising career as a leading pianist and got married. After marriage, she founded the ginstling Art and Music Festival. Since 195 1 was founded, the music festival has attracted a large number of musicians. Diana's grandfather, Maurice Femoy, was a Conservative MP representing Kingslin and a playmate of the late King George VI in shooting and tennis. The park manor where Diana lived as a child was given to Baron Maurice Femoy by George V to show her friendship with George VI, then Duke of York.

Born in such a family, Diana seems destined to be inextricably linked with the royal family. The communication between her family members and the royal family finally brought her into the royal marriage.

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Second, the sadness of being a girl.

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Diana was born on the night of July 196 1 day and weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces. Her birth was not warmly welcomed by her parents, because she was the third daughter of Viscount Alsop, and her parents, especially Viscount Alsop, hoped to have a boy to carry on the family line. Her father called her a "perfect child", but the joy of expecting a boy to be born immediately turned cold. The couple were so eager for a boy to inherit their name that they didn't even prepare a girl's name. A week later, the couple named her "Princess Diana". "Diana" is the name of an ancestor of the Spencer family, while "Francis" is her mother's name.

Viscount Alsop called Diana "a child with a perfect figure", which implied. Before Diana was born 18 months, the viscount gave birth to a severely deformed boy named John, and poor John only lived 10 hours. What is even more pitiful is that her heartbroken mother went to the hospital for various gynecological examinations under the pressure of her elders to see if there were any problems. At that time, it seemed that it was the woman's fault that one girl after another was born. The arrogant and stubborn viscount was sent to various hospitals in London for physical examination. For the 25-year-old viscount, this is a great injustice and an unbearable insult. At that time, the seeds of althorp viscount's long-term discord and final divorce were planted. Diana's brother, Count Charlie Spencer, commented on that period and thought it was a terrible one. His parents never got rid of the psychological trauma and shadow of that period.

1964, when Diana was 3 years old, the heir of the Spencer family and the son that the whole family hoped for were born. The heir Charles was baptized in Westminster Abbey, and his godmother is now Queen Elizabeth. Although there are differences between the east and the west, it is obvious that men are superior to women in the issue of heirs. The church where Diana was baptized was Sandringham Church, and her godmother was just an ordinary rich family.

According to psychologist Freud's theory, especially childhood memories will determine and continue to affect people's life. Although some people can get rid of psychological troubles through experience, psychological shadows are just lava under sleeping rocks. Although Diana is young, the child's young mind can still clearly feel the family's neglect of herself and respect for her younger brother. In her mind, she began to tell herself that she was a "disappointing child" and she felt very inferior and insignificant. This sense of inferiority runs through her girlhood and early life in the royal family. It was not until she devoted herself to public welfare activities and was warmly loved that she found a sense of value of being recognized and "being".

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Third, beautiful hometown.

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Park Manor and althorp's former residence are two completely different places in Diana's childhood memory. The former is warm and beautiful, while The House of althorp is a horrible and gloomy scene.

Diana and her family lived in Park Manor from 196 1 to 1975. This house has 10 bedrooms, spacious parking garage, outdoor swimming pool, tennis court and cricket court. In addition to Diana's family, there are six full-time staff, including chefs, housekeepers and private teachers, who serve Viscount Spencer's family.

In children's memory, the park manor is so beautiful and warm. They still remember the kitchen with bluestone floor on the first floor, where they searched for food. A dark green laundry room, where Diana's cat Mamred lives. In a classroom, Miss Gertrude Allen, a governess, teaches children some basic knowledge of reading and writing. In the room next to the classroom, there are advertisements, posters, photos and other souvenirs of singers in the 1960 s that arouse people's infinite reverie. The children call this room "Beetle", perhaps named after the famous "Beetle" in the 1960s. Other arrangements in the house are no different from those of the upper-class aristocratic families in Britain, with family photos and souvenirs.

The second floor is the children's bedroom. Diana's bedroom is a beautiful cream color, overlooking the window, which is a beautiful pastoral scenery. The fields are flat and wide, covered with green grass, dotted with silver-white birch forests and yew forests. From time to time, small animals such as rabbits and foxes can be seen running in the grass. The ocean is not far from here, and the sea breeze blows from time to time.

Children really regard this nature as their paradise. There are many interesting things there. At the lakeside of Sandringham Manor, they used to feed amused fish, slide down the handrail of stairs, wander around with their dogs, play hide-and-seek in the garden and look for birds' eggs in the wild. Summer is a good season for playing. They swim in the swimming pool, have a picnic on the nearby beach and play house in their tree house.

Spencer's children began to ride horses at the age of 3, and Diana was no exception, and began to raise their own small pets. Her favorite animals include guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters and kittens. When a small animal dies unfortunately, Little Diana will hold a funeral in earnest. Little goldfish were buried in the toilet, while other animals were put into cardboard shoe boxes, and their graves were under the lush snow on the lawn. Little Diana would dig a hole, bury them and pray for them. In children's world, there is no difference between animal and human life forms. I believe many children have sincerely buried their unfortunate pets. By keeping pets, children learn to care and protect others. Diana's love for small pets is just a preview of her widespread love as an adult.

The dark graveyard is a haunt of little Diana. Diana and her brother Charlie went to the church of Sandringham Cemetery to mourn the early death of their brother John. Time has passed, and the grass on the grave is already sad. Little Diana and little Charlie caused some initial thoughts about life. If the John brothers survived, would we exist? Little Diana thought that if she had John's brother, she wouldn't be born in this world. Little Charlie thinks that if John is alive, his parents will give birth to Diana and will not regenerate him. Children make all kinds of guesses, but since "if" will not come true, it is impossible to draw a conclusion. Little Diana just felt that the epitaph of "Love Memorial" on John's tombstone suggested that if I were a boy, my parents would not be so sad and disappointed.

As for the big house in althorp where my grandfather lives, the children find it a torment to go there. There are too many chilling dark corners in historic houses, and the deep corridors are full of portraits of long-dead ancestors. Their arrogant and reserved attitude and cold eyes always frightened Diana. Diana's brother Charlie recalled, "It was like an old watch shop, and the ticking sound repeated the past steps. For a sensitive child, this is frustrating. We are not willing to go there. "

Count althorp, who lives in a big house, is the real owner here. He knows the history of every painting and furniture here like the back of his hand. Known as the "Earl of Museum Curator", he often shows guests around big houses with dust in his hand. He took good care of the big house. Once, when he accompanied his distant relative Winston Churchill to visit the library of the big house, he snatched the cigar from his mouth. Behind his bad temper is his cultivation and appreciation of art, while his bohemian son is just the opposite. With the accumulation of several generations, only one generation's time will go up in smoke. The artworks of althorp House were sold one by one. If the old count knew what was going on underground, he would die unsatisfied.

Serious parents always keep their children away from them, just as Diana did with her grandfather. But it was different for grandmother Countess Spencer. Diana's thoughtfulness, love and kindness are more or less inherited from her grandmother. Diana recalled: "She was kind, kind and unusual, and she was a very good person." The countess is very popular in the local area. She often visits the old, the weak, the sick and those in need and gives them help, comfort and strength.

Diana's most important relatives-father and mother-are relatively far away from them. This can be seen from the way they eat. Three meals a day are eaten with the nanny, and the diet has not changed every day. The dishes are simple and unchanged. Porridge in the morning, meat dishes at noon, fish once a week.

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Fourth, parents' divorce and education methods

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Parents always keep their children at a distance. His parents' dining table is separate from theirs. Charlie didn't go downstairs to have dinner with his parents until he was 7 years old. This is a rigid, formal and introverted life of aristocratic families, and it is an educational method left by the previous generation. Diana's brother Charlie recalled that that way was very special and outdated, lacking maternal love.

The lack of maternal love is not only in this respect, but the divorce of parents has become an eternal wound in children's hearts. For this marriage that ended in divorce, the late Earl Spencer said: "/kloc-how much of the four-year marriage life is happy?" I think so, until we broke up. I was wrong, we didn't break up, but alienated from each other. " How happy is an estranged marriage? The harmonious atmosphere of the park manor disappeared. In public, the couple smiled, but in private, there was no laughter in their lives. Obviously, the cold silence, sharp language and fierce quarrel hurt the children's hearts. Diana clearly remembers hiding behind the living room door and spying on her parents' quarrel. The reason for the quarrel is the third party in their lives-Peter Suntech Kidd. The rich businessman sold his farm in Australia and returned to England. Spencer and his wife met the outgoing industrialist and his wife at a dinner party in London. Later, they went to a Swiss ski resort for a holiday with Peter. The trip was an unfortunate turning point in their lives. In Francis' eyes, Peter seems to have all the qualities that her husband lacks. Excited, Francis didn't seem to notice the depressed side of Peter's character.

After returning from vacation, 42-year-old Peter left home, his wife and children, lived alone in a place in south kensington, and began a tryst with Francis. It was the summer of 1967, and Diana's parents reached a separation agreement. That scene became the eternal shadow in little Diana's heart: at the age of six, she sat on the cold stone steps of Park Manor, clutching the iron-carved stair handrail helplessly, surrounded by chaos and noise. She heard her father put the suitcase in the trunk, heard her mother's high heels banging on the gravel road in the yard, heard the door slam, heard the roar of the engine and drifted away. Mother walked out of Park Manor and out of her life.

Mother lives in London. She had planned to live in London with Diana and Charlie, but her father was dead set against her. Father's victory didn't stop there. Mother's departure was accused of "eloping". When the newspaper reported the scandal, she was described as an extremely selfish bad woman who abandoned her husband and children and threw herself into the arms of another man. People expressed sympathy for the husband of this "bad woman" and angrily condemned Frances's ugly behavior.

Diana, 6, is too young to understand all this. But the loneliness of being abandoned and betrayed is unforgettable. She thinks everything is her fault, and she is not a boy, which leads to disagreement between her parents. The breakdown of marriage has indeed brought trauma to the parties, but the harm to the children is even greater and irreparable.

Every night, lying in a bed full of toys, Diana could hear her brother crying for her mother. Sometimes, she would get out of bed and go to her brother's room to put him to sleep. Sometimes, lonely and afraid, she can only stay in the room and listen to her brother crying: "I want my mother, I want my mother." At this time, she can only bury her head in the pillow and let the tears wet the pillow. "I can't stand the helplessness and fear. I don't have the courage to get out of bed to appease my brother. I still remember these things very clearly today. " She recalled.

Insecurity has become a torment that children must endure. As children, Diana and Charlie are both afraid of the dark. They demand that the stair lights should be turned on at night and the room lights should be turned on. Outside the window, the wind roared through the Woods, and the cries of owls and other animals were sad. For children, the park manor in the dark is terrible. One night, my father casually mentioned that a murderer had escaped from prison and fled nearby. The children were too scared to sleep, listening to every movement in the empty room. Diana even counted on her hippo toy to protect her. She painted the hippo's eyes with luminous paint, so that at night she felt as if the hippo was standing guard for her.

To outsiders, Diana is still a happy child. She is busy in her own little world, as neat as a brand-new doll. She put the animals to sleep and covered her doll with a quilt. She rode a blue bike on the forest vagina of the manor, put the doll in the stroller she had sat in, pushed it to play, and helped her little brother get dressed. Enthusiasm, kindness and consideration for others have always been her personality characteristics.

Behind happiness is loneliness. My mother left, my sisters Sarah and Jenny lived in boarding school, and my father was driven crazy and depressed. He was shut up in his room alone, and no one was seen except the housekeeper. His son Charlie recalled: "After the divorce, his mood was really bad, mainly extreme depression and autism. He often sits alone in his study and stays indoors. I remember playing cricket with me on the lawn. It was a very rare happy moment for him, but I was very happy. "

Children from divorced families often encounter two dilemmas, either being abandoned by their parents or being the object of their parents' struggle. Diana's brother and sister are lucky and unfortunate to belong to the latter. Mother Francis and father Johnny tried to win the children's love for them. They all bought many expensive gifts for their children, but they didn't give them the hugs and kisses they longed for.

On Diana's 7th birthday, Johnny gave a wonderful party. That afternoon, he borrowed a dromedary camel named Bert from Dudley Zoo to let the flattered children ride on the lawn, while he watched with interest.

It is even more extravagant during Christmas. Before the festival, Charlie and Diana both received the catalogue of Hamley, a large toy store in West End of London. Someone told them what they wanted to buy, so they put a tick in the catalogue. Sure enough, on Christmas day, all their wishes came true: the socks at their bedside were full of good things. Charlie said, "These things will make you believe in matter first." The child in this situation is embarrassed and painful, and a gift forces Diana to make the most painful decision in her young life. 1969 when she was 8 years old, she was invited to attend the wedding of her cousins Elizabeth Wick-Walker and Anthony Duckworth-Chad. The wedding was held on Piccadilly Circus near St James's Palace. Her father gave her a beautiful blue skirt, and her mother gave her an equally beautiful green skirt. "I don't remember which one I was wearing, but I remember that it bothered me because it forced me to choose one side."

At school, the shadow of divorce still exists. Diana and her brother are the only students in school whose parents are divorced, which is fundamentally different from other children. Teresa needham, Diana's former grade director, said, "She is the only student I know whose parents are divorced. This kind of thing was rare at the time. "

One afternoon, it was sunny and everyone was having a painting class. Somehow, Diana began to cry sadly. All her classmates were in unknown so, and only saw that she wrote "For Mom and Dad" in every photo.

As a result of the parents' divorce lawsuit, the mother lost the case and the custody of the child belonged to the father. But every holiday and weekend, Diana and her brother can go to London to see their mother accompanied by a nanny. Getting together is not a happy thing. Every time they meet, their mother's tears make them feel pain and guilt. When mother picks them up from the railway station, she often bursts into tears. The children asked their mother carefully what was wrong. And the mother's answer is always: "I don't want you to leave tomorrow."

The appearance of his stepfather, Peter Suntech Kidd, relaxed the heavy party. 1969, Peter Sunkidd officially entered the lives of Diana and Charlie. They first met at Liverpool Street Station. Peter is handsome and smiling in a suit and tie. The children fell in love with him at the first sight. Mom said that they got married that morning and the children were happier.

Peter is engaged in home wallpaper business, and he is a generous, emotional and easy-going stepfather.

He took the children sailing and allowed little Charlie to wear a general's hat when he served in the Royal Navy. From then on, Charlie was nicknamed "General". He gave Diana a nickname "Duchess", which Diana's friends used for a long time. This time spent with her mother's stepfather had a great influence on Diana's character.

Charlie said, "If you want to find out why Diana is not a spoiled and flashy woman, it is because we have two completely different lifestyles. We don't always live in luxurious mansions and boss the housekeeper around. My mother's residence is an ordinary house. Every holiday, we spend half our time with my mother, so we have a lot of time in a relatively ordinary environment. "

Three years later, in 1972, Suntech Kidd and his wife bought a farm with an area of 1000 acre on Searle Island in the south of Auban, Ackell County, where Diana's mother Frances had lived for a long time. Children come here for the summer vacation, enjoy the rural scenery, catch mackerel, lobster and sailboats, and have a barbecue on the beach on sunny days. Diana has her own Scottish pony, named Sufu. It was riding that hurt her arm, and she has been afraid of riding since then.

At that time, Diana was riding a pony in Sandringham Park. Suddenly, the horse tripped and she was thrown several meters away. Diana only felt pain, but her arm didn't seem to be hurt. Two days later, she went skiing in Switzerland. At this time, she felt numb in her arm and didn't listen to her, so she went to the local hospital to take an X-ray, and the doctor diagnosed it as a "lateral bending fracture". This is a common disease in children. Because bones are soft and easy to deform, but they are not easy to break. The doctor bandaged her arm. But when Diana rode again, she fell down again because of nervousness. When she became a princess with the help of handsome equestrian coach james hewitt, her fear of riding was overcome. But she has never been keen on riding.

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Five, the days at school

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Diana's first primary school in Hearfield was filled with a warm family atmosphere.

The class size is small and the teachers are generous. Students will be rewarded once they have made achievements in reading, writing or painting. There is a tennis court, a bunker, a lawn for playing tennis and baseball and a garden outside the classroom. Diana is quiet and shy, not used to the noisy school life. However, her friend Alexandra Lloyd was inseparable from her.

Maybe it's really 3 years old to see 8 years old, and 8 years old to see old. Little Diana showed her strengths and weaknesses. When Diana studied the multiplication table and Janet and John series hard, her brother Charlie did well in school. The sharp contrast made her jealous of her wonderful brother. "How I wish I could be as good as him at school." She said. Brothers and sisters, fighting is inevitable. Diana, who is older and stronger, is naturally the winner. Charlie could only complain, but he soon discovered that he could stab her with sharp words. Parents must stop him from calling his sister "Brian", which was the name of a snail who was slow and mentally retarded in the popular children's TV series "Magic Carousel" at that time.

At the age of 9, her father transferred her to another school-Reddes Hoth Boarding School. The school is only two hours' drive from Park Manor. Her initial reaction was anger and resistance. She is nine years old and can feel her father's pain. She is charitable and considerate by nature, and she loves her father even more when he tells her his life story. But in her mind, her father told her to leave home for school and sent her brother to another strange school, which was obviously an abandonment of them. She once threatened her father: "If you love me, you won't leave me here." Father patiently explained to her the advantages of going to this school: learning ballet, swimming, riding horses, and a place to store her beloved animal, guinea pigs. This animal won the first prize in Sandringham exhibition. "This may be because it is the only guinea pig in the exhibition," Diana said to herself. Later, this guinea pig won the Patmer Cup in the animal corner competition held by the school.

Father left her alone at school. She leaned against the suitcase marked "Dai" and held her favorite green hippo and "Pinat" in her hand. Later, my father said with a deep sense of loss, "It was a terrible and sad day. I seem to have lost her. "

An excellent photographer took a picture of Diana before she left home for school. In the photo, a lovely, shy and energetic girl is wearing a crimson top and a gray school uniform skirt. Little Diana also wrote him a note asking for "big chocolates, cakes, gingerbread and lollipops".

Diana soon fell in love with the school, because the school tried every means to make its 120 female students feel at home. Diana was quiet and reserved in the first semester; She likes slapstick and joking, but she doesn't like reading. Being shy, she avoided being the focus of attention. Diana never answers questions loudly in class and never stands up to read the text. The first time she participated in a school performance, she played a doll. She agreed to play this role because she had no lines.

Diana is a popular partner, enthusiastic about all kinds of school activities, and once participated in swimming and tennis competitions on behalf of the dormitory. But a voice in her heart told her to get away from the crowd. This intuition told her that this life, in her own words, "has to take a tortuous road." I always feel that I have a distance from everyone. I knew for a long time that I would go another way and be in another environment. "

1972 In the autumn, Diana's grandmother, Countess Spencer, died of a brain tumor. Diana was very sad. Since her parents divorced, her grandmother has been caring for her lovingly. This kind feeling makes both sides depend on each other. She attended her grandmother's funeral with the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret at the Royal Church in St James's Palace. Countess Spencer occupies an irreplaceable position in Diana's heart. She sincerely believes that her grandmother is still guarding her in the world of God.

Later, she took the public entrance examination, followed in the footsteps of her sisters and entered Sisyphus Boarding School in Kent. Established in 1865, this school not only pays attention to academic performance, but also pays attention to the cultivation of "personality and self-confidence".

Sister Sarah is very beautiful at school. She got excellent grades, participated in horse racing and swimming competitions as a member of the school team, and played the leading role in the school drama performance. Sarah wants to be the best in everything, and her competitive personality makes her the most lawless and unruly girl in school.

My sister Jenny has a high IQ and good exam results. She is also the captain of the school hockey team. She is reasonable, wise and independent. When Diana came in, she was the head of the sixth grade.

In the office, the teachers can't help talking about guessing which sister Diana, the new student, is more like, Sarah? Jenny?

In academic performance, she is definitely a unique Spencer child. She has taken five O-level exams in English literature, language, history, geography and art, and all of them have hung "red lights". Make-up exam, failed again. Diana herself admitted: "I can't do anything well. I am very disappointed in myself and feel that I am a person who walks behind others. "

Her hobby at that time was reading some novels, and she liked Pride and Prejudice and Away from Crazy People best. Judging from these books, this gentle and sweet girl has different strength in her heart.

Diana's advantage lies in other aspects. She is an all-around athlete and won the school swimming and diving championship for four years in a row. Her diving hardly left any splash, which made the audience applaud. This skill is called "Diana's stunt". She is also the captain of the women's basketball team and a strong tennis player. But Diana is still not as good as her two sports-loving sisters and mothers. Her mother is the "all-around champion" of the school and the captain of almost all teams. If it weren't for appendicitis, I might take part in junior Wimbledon. Diana's achievements in learning piano were also eclipsed by her grandmother and sister Sarah. Grandma once played piano music for the Queen at the Royal Albert Memorial. Her sister Sarah also majored in piano at Vienna Conservatory of Music after leaving Sisyphus Girls' School.

Diana loves ballet and once longed to be a ballerina, but her figure of 5 feet 10 inch is too high for a professional ballerina. She has seen Swan Lake at least four times.

Diana often gets up secretly in the middle of the night and sneaks into the new performance hall of the school to practice. Dancing can make her forget all her troubles for a while. She can dance for hours at a time with the music of the record player.

After hard training, Diana won the first prize in the school dance competition at the end of the spring semester of 1976. On the eve of the wedding, she invited Wendy Mitchell, a former dance teacher, and Lily Snip, a pianist, to Kensington Palace to teach themselves dance. For her, it can relieve the tension and pressure before the wedding.

1975 After the family moved to althorp, Diana had an ideal place to practice dancing. In summer, she practices ballet on the sand railing in the house; After the guests left, she danced in the oolong hall made of black and white marble under the portrait of her prominent ancestor. She refused to dance in public, so her brother and servant took turns peeking through the keyhole and watching her practice dancing in a black training suit. Charlie said, "We all think she dances very well."

At Sisyphus School, one of Diana's greatest achievements was meeting her lifelong friend-Caroline Puulaid, now Caroline Roseiro Muse. At school, her bed was next to Diana's, and later she and Diana shared an apartment in London. In her memory, Diana "has a strong personality, lively and cheerful, and likes to make noise."

Caroline and Diana became bosom friends as soon as they met, because their parents were divorced. "It doesn't make much difference to us. We didn't sit in the corner and cry. " Caroline said. But in the memory of other students, Diana was "introverted and depressed" and her feelings were never exposed.

After graduating from Sisyphus School, Diana entered Weidemann Alpine College, an expensive Swiss etiquette intensive school, to study housekeeping, clothing and cooking. In this school, the only thing she learned was skiing. According to the regulations, she should speak French all day and is not allowed to speak other languages. But she and her friend Sophie kimball always speak English. She wrote dozens of letters asking her parents to take her home. Later, she argued that they were wasting money and her parents finally gave in.

When she dropped out of school, Diana was only 16 years old, with no diploma and no skills. How will she maintain her future life? She can't say that she has accomplished nothing in school, but she has at least one skill, far exceeding her mother and other relatives. That's her compassionate heart.