Nylon was the first commercially successful synthetic thermoplastic polymer. Commercially, nylon polymer is made by reacting monomers which are either lactams, acid/amines or stoichiometric mixtures of diamines (-NH2) and diacids (-COOH). Mixtures of these can be polymerized together to make copolymers.
Princess Diana Wedding Cake. Official Cake Wedding cake and cooks for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. Getty Images / Terry Fincher. The official cake for the wedding dinner was made by the Naval Armed Forces, appropriate for the wedding of Prince Charles, a naval commander.
Her wedding to the Prince of Wales on 29 July 1981 was held at St Paul's Cathedral and reached a global television audience of over 750 million. While married, Diana bore the titles Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay and Countess of Chester. The marriage produced two sons, the princes William and Harry, who were then respectively second and third in the line of succession to the British throne.