Lady Diana Spencer celebrates her 20th birthday on 1 July. She weds Britain's Prince Charles on 29 July. Family album photos show her when she was three years old (left) and seven years old (right). Obit

Broadcast Date: 30 June 1981

Agency: UPI

Lady Diana Spencer, who weds the Prince of Wales on 29 July, celebrates her 20th birthday on 1 July. This picture from the family album, shows Lady Diana, during a summer holiday in 1970, at Itchenor, West Sussex

Broadcast Date: 30 June 1981

Agency: Press Association

A September 1980 library picture of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, whose name is romantically linked with that of the Prince of Wales. She is shown in the garden of the kindergarten where she works in Pimlico, London

Broadcast Date: 9 December 1980

Agency: PA News Photo Library

Lady Diana Spencer's look of astonishment as she stalls her car, a new mini metro, outside her Earl's Court, London flat this morning when leaving for her job as teacher at a kindergarten in Pimlico. Speculation continues that she may have a romantic involvement with Prince Charles who celebrated his 32nd birthday last Friday

Broadcast Date: 17 November 1980

Agency: Press Association

A November, 1980 library picture of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, whose name is romantically linked with that of the Prince of Wales. Her astonished look occurred as she stalled her ne Mini Metro car outside her Earls Court, London flat when leaving for her job at a Pimlico kindergarten

Agency: Press Association News Photo Library

A close-up of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, who favours casual clothes. Her name is romantically linked with that of the Prince of Wales, whom she has known since childhood. She was educated at the West Heath School for Girls, Sevenoaks, Kent, and currently works in a Pimlico kindergarten

Agency: Press Association

Prince Charles's fiancée, Lady Diana Spencer being driven from Clarence House this morning. The 19-year old daughter of Earl Spencer will now live there until the wedding in July. The couple announced their engagement yesterday

Agency: Press Association

Lady Diana Spencer made her first public appearance as a 20-year-old today. Although rumour had it that she would be attending the rowing at Henley, Lady Di preferred to watch the exciting men's singles semi final matches at Wimbledon. She had royal company in King Constantine of Greece and perhaps could be forgiven for looking a little tired after her birthday celebrations last night

ITN Reference: SPEN/14

Agency: Central Press

This picture is issued in connection with Lady Diana Spencer's 20th birthday, of tomorrow, Wednesday 1 July 1981. Lady Diana and brother Charles, 1967. Lady Diana who weds the Prince of Wales on 29 July, celebrates her 20th birthday on 1 July. This picture shows Lady Diana at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk in the summer of 1967 with her brother, Charles Edward Maurice, Viscount Althorpe, a former Page of Honour to the Queen, who celebrated his 17th birthday on 21 May

Broadcast Date: 30 June 1981

Agency: Press Association

Her seventh birthday and Lady Di (left) was riding high, with her younger brother, Charles. Bert, a suitably aristocratic looking camel, was hired especially for celebrations at Park House. Obit

Broadcast Date: 29 June 1981

Agency: Lynn News

Rod and tackle for Lady Diana Spencer at Balmoral this morning when she and Prince Charles spent the second morning of their holiday on the Queen's estate fishing, three miles apart. With Lady Diana, who was reunited with the Prince on Sunday after his five week overseas tour, is long serving gillie Charles Wright

Agency: Press Association

Diana Spencer with two children from the London kindergarten she worked at

Agency: Camera Press

Prince Charles's fiancée, Diana Spencer, with her mother, Frances Shand-Kydd

ITN Reference: SPEN/13

Agency: London Express

Lady Diana Spencer, aged two months, with her mother at Park House in 1961. Obit

Broadcast Date: 22 November 1984

Photographer: Mr J Hancock

Eighteen year old schoolboy Nicholas Hardy kissing Lady Diana Spencer's hand after he had given Prince Charles's bride to be a single daffodil today during a visit by Prince Charles and his fiancée to the Cheltenham headquarters of the policemen who will guard their Royal home at Doughton after their wedding

Broadcast Date: 27 March 1981

Agency: Press Association

Prince Charles kisses his fiancée Lady Diana Spencer goodbye today on the tarmac at Heathrow airport, before leaving on a five week tour of New Zealand, Australia and Venezuela

Agency: Press Association

Princess Alexandra (left), and Prince Charles' fiancée Lady Diana Spencer display similar smiles but differing styles in headgear as they drive down the course at Ascot today on the second day of the race meeting. Prince Charles was absent, he is in New York for a gala performance by the Royal Ballet

Agency: Press Association

A library picture of Princess Grace of Monaco, who dies in hospital last night at the age of 52 after a road crash. With her in this picture taken in March last year are the Prince of Wales and his wife to be, Lady Diana Spencer. They were attending an entertainment at the Goldsmith's Hall in London in aid of the Royal Opera House Development Appeal

Broadcast Date: 15 September 1982

Agency: Press Association News Photo Library

Lady Diana Spencer, 19, with two of the pupils at the London kindergarten where she works. Lady Diana, youngest child of former royal equerry Lord Spencer, has known Prince Charles since childhood. At one time, her sister Lady Sarah had her name romantically linked with the Prince of Wales

Agency: Camera Press

Photographer: Charles De La Court

Lady Diana Spencer, who weds the Prince of Wales on 29 July, celebrates her 20th birthday on 1 July. This photo from the family album, shows Lady Diana being kissed by Souffle, a Shetland pony, at her mother's home in Scotland, during the summer of 1974

Broadcast Date: 30 June 1981

Agency: Press Association

Lady Diana Spencer as a baby with her sisters, Sarah age 6 and Jane age 4. Obit

Photographer: Mr J Hancock

This picture is issued in connection with Lady Diana Spencer's 20th birthday, of tomorrow, Wednesday 1 July 1981. Lady Diana Spencer, who weds the Prince of Wales on 29 July, celebrates her 20th birthday on 1 July. This picture from the family album, shows Lady Diana, as a chubby two-year old, at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk

Broadcast Date: 30 June 1981

Agency: Press Association

Lady Diana Spencer turns to chat to a young boy who crawled through the crowds to get a better view, as Prince Charles takes the salute at HMS Mercury, the naval communications and navigation training establishment near Petersfield, Hampshire, today. Dean Brown, 10, from Ashford, Middlesex, came along to see his cousin, who took part in the parade

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

Lady Diana Spencer looking thoughtful on the stands at Tidworth Polo Club, Hampshire, today. She left in distress shortly after arriving with Prince Charles to watch him play in a polo match

Agency: Press Association News Photo Library

Agency: Unknown

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/41

Broadcast Date: 10 January 1995

Agency: Express Newspapers

Broadcast Date: 10 February 2005

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/39

Agency: Press Association

Lady Diana Spencer, friend of Prince Charles, with a child from the London Kindergarten where she works

Broadcast Date: 10 November 1980

ITN Reference: SPEN/1

Agency: London Express Service

A picture of Lady Diana Spencer (3rd left) and members of the Young England Kindergarten Staff, taken on 4 February 1981. The principal of the kindergarten, Mrs Vicki Wilson, is fourth from left. Lady Diana worked at the kindergarten until her engagement to Prince Charles

Broadcast Date: 25 July 1981

ITN Reference: SPEN/16

Agency: Press Association

Lady Diana Spencer in the garden with two of the pupils from the kindergarten where she works

Broadcast Date: 10 November 1980

ITN Reference: SPEN/2

Agency: London Express Service

Lady Diana Spencer, 19, Prince Charles's latest girlfriend, pictured today at the kindergarten in St George's Square, Pimlico, London, where she works as a teacher. Diana, youngest of 56-year-old Lord Spencer's five children, would not talk about her friendship with Prince Charles, although it is known they have been on dates and she has stayed with the Royal Family at Balmoral

Broadcast Date: 5 November 1981

ITN Reference: SPEN/3

Agency: Press Association

Lady Diana Spencer in the garden with two of the pupils from the kindergarten where she works

Agency: Press Association

Lady Diana Spencer with two of her pupils at the London kindergarten where she works. Lady Diana, 19, had just returned from a holiday spent with Prince Charles, whom she has known since childhood, at Balmoral

Broadcast Date: 24 February 1981

Agency: Camera Press

Photographer: Charles De La Court

A library picture of Princess Grace of Monaco, who dies in hospital last night at the age of 52 after a road crash. With her in this picture taken in March last year are the Prince of Wales and his wife to be, Lady Diana Spencer. They were attending an entertainment at the Goldsmith's Hall in London in aid of the Royal Opera House Development Appeal

Broadcast Date: 15 September 1982

Agency: Press Association News Photo Library

Lady Diana Spencer, fiancée to the Prince of Wales, shares a joke with actor Roger Moore and his wife Luisa at the Gala Premiere of the new James Bond movie starring the actor in For Your Eyes Only tonight at a cinema in Leicester Square, London. Lady Diana accompanied Prince Charles to the premiere which was in aid of charity

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

Beauties in the Royal box at Wimbledon today, included (front row, left to right) The Duchess of Kent, Lady Diana Spencer who weds the Prince of Wales on 29 July 1981, and her sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

Di's wedding finery. Accessories worn and carried by Lady Diana Spencer when she weds Prince Charles here 29 July. Clive Shelton created the slippers. A tiny horseshoe studded with diamonds has been sewn into the Emanuel's dress for good luck. There is a pochette and, in case of inclement weather, a wedding umbrella matching the dress

Broadcast Date: 29 July 1981

Agency: Associated Press

Agency: Rex Features

Photographer: Johnathan Buckmaster

Broadcast Date: 31 August 1997

Photographer: Tim Graham

Agency: PA News Photo Library

Photographer: John Stillwell

Agency: PA News Photo Library

Photographer: John Stillwell

Includes "an afterthough" 12 April 1945. Details everyday life at College and during trips home including evacuation to Llandrindod Wells in 1939 and the impact of the Second World War. Corresponds to photographs in D604/1

Reprinted from The Anglo-Welsh Review

Bisley with Lypiatt School November 1962, Archway Modern School Stroud May 1963. With pencil annotations

Some loose leaves

Written in pencil

Written in pencil