Complete the text with the past simple or the past continuous of the verbs in brackets.
Throughout her short life, Diana, Princess of Wales (1. do) does so much to publicize work on behalf of homeless and also disabled people, children and people with HIV/AIDS. During her marriage, the Princess (2. be) President or Patron of over 100 charities.
In the year before her death, aged 36, the Princess (3. play) an active role in the campaign for a ban on the manufacture and use of land mines. In January 1997, she (4. visit) Angola as part of her campaign. In June, the Princess (5. speak) at the landmines conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London. Later, in June 1997 while she (6. visit) America to promote the American Red Cross landmines campaign, she (7. meet) Mother Teresa in the Bronx, New York. The Princess’s last public engagements (8. include)
her speech in Bosnia, while she (9. spend) a few days from 7 to 10 August visiting the landmine projects in Travnic, Sarajevo and Zenezica .
It is estimated that 2.5 billion people (10. watch) her funeral on TV.
