Lady D and Lady P

(If Lady Diana were still alive, it would not allow what it is happening to Pegah Emambakhsh).

Diana

Princess Diana was born Diana Frances Spencer on July 1, 1961. Her parents were Edward John and Frances Spencer Viscount and Viscountess Althorp, later Earl and Countess Spencer. When she was 6 her parents split up and her mother got married to Peter Shand-Kydd. Diana lived with her father her two older sisters and her younger brother Charles. It was only when her grandfather died that she inherited the title of Lady. Diana lived in an apartment with roommates and was a nanny and a school teacher when she got engaged to the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles. They got married in the summer of 1981 and on July 21 1982, Prince William Arther Phillip Louis was born. On September 15 1984, she had Prince Henry Charles Albert David. Her marriage started to fail then. In 1992 she and Prince Charles separated and in 1996 they divorced. She then lost the privilege of being called Her Royal Highness. In 1996 she fell in love with Dodi Fayed, the son of the owner of Harrods Department Store in London. On the night of August 31 1997, they were both tragically killed in a motor accident when the car they were in collided with a beam on the Pont D'Alma near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Her funeral was held on September 6 1997, just 9 days before Henry's 13th birthday. She is buried on an island at her ancestral home at Althorp.

Pegah

Pegah Emambakhsh is from Iran and has been refused asylum in the UK. She fled from torture, and her partner, a woman, was killed. Her father, taken in for questioning about her whereabouts, was also tortured. Torture and killing of gay and lesbian people happens regularly in Iran, and no person the authorities know is gay is going to be safe there. But Pegah has been refused. You never know though, lobbying might help. Her Home Office number is B1191057. Her MP is Richard Caborn and he is supporting her. Maybe your MP will add his/her voice if you ask them to. The point is not to have a go at Iran but to persuade the UK authorities to let her stay, because she would be at serious risk there.