The Princess of Wales looks on as Prince Charles congratulates the bride, Carolyn Pride and groom, William Bartholemew, after their wedding at Chelsea Old Church in London today. Carolyn shared a flat with the Princess before her engagement to Prince Charles

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Melbourne, Australia. Princess Diana, wearing an emerald headband, dances with Prince Charles at a charity ball. The headband was formerly a necklace given top her by the queen

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Prince Charles and Princess Diana sat on the steps of the Greek Theatre of Syracuse

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Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Prince Charles and his bride to be, Lady Diana Spencer holding a single flower during their visit to Tetbury today. Thousands turned out to greet their future 'neighbours' on the visit to the Cotswold town. See PA Story "Diana" timed 1221

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Adelaide, Australia. Prince Charles and his wife Diana enjoy a joke with some swimmers in the pool at Parks Centre

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Windsor. Spectacular kiss. Princess Diana presenting the prizes to the teams taking part in today's Cartier International Polo Spectacular, ensures her husband The Prince of Wales gets that little something extra.. a kiss.. at the Guards Polo Club, Windsor Great Park, where the prince played for the England II team versus Chile. See PA substitute story Royal Polo timed 2025

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Windsor. Princess Diana gives a kiss to Prince Charles after giving him his runners up prize after a polo match which he played at the Royal Oman Polo Ground. The Prince's team lost the match 4 to 3

Agency: Reuter

Photographer: Nick Didlick

London. Prince Charles kisses his bride on balcony of Buckingham Palace after their 29 July wedding at St Pauls

Agency: BIPNA

London. Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles walking hand in hand from St Paul's Cathedral after the final rehearsal for their wedding on 29 July

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Photographer: P Skingley

Perhaps the most romantic picture yet of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, photographed at Windsor during a polo break, just days away from their wedding

ITN Reference: ROYAL/CHAR/132

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Charles De La Court

Hampshire. Prince Charles extends a helping hand to his fiancée as Lady Diana Spencer signs the visitors' book at HMS Mercury, Leydene near Petersfield, Hampshire, today. Lady Diana nearly missed the chair as she sat down to sign

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Photographer: Ron Bell [Court Photographer]

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Photographer: J Geddes Wood

Sydney, Australia. The steps and forecourts of the Sydney Opera House are packed with people as Princess Diana and Prince Charles drive in an open car during their first day of the Sydney visit

Agency: UPI

Photographer: John Eggitt [?]

London. Prince Charles turns to talk briefly to his bride-to-be during their wedding service in St Paul's Cathedral today

Agency: Press Association

Canberra, Australia. The Royal couple, Prince Charles and Princess Diana seen watching some children dancing during their visit to Karguru school, near Tennant Creek today

Agency: Associated Press

Photographer: Terry Phelan

Tokyo, Japan. Britain's Prince Charles is flanked by Japan's emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako during an audience at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo today. Prince Charles flew into the Japanese capital earlier in the day for a five day unofficial visit including a tour to Expo'70 site near Osaka

Agency: Associated Press

Prince Charles, baby son of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh enjoys a 2nd birthday outing in St James' Park with Mabel Anderson, the Nanny

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Prince Charles on his third birthday went for his usual morning ride in the park with his nurse Miss Lightbody. Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle, July 1969. Series of pictures from stock

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Prince Charles at work with a tree saw with his room mate Stuart McGregor at Timbertop. Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle, July 1969. Series of pictures from stock

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Perth, Western Australia. Britain's Prince Charles receives a kiss and a cuddle from bikini-clad Jane Priest, during an early morning swim at Perth's Cottesloe Beach Saturday. It was the second day in a row that the Prince, heir to the British Throne, started his day with a dip in the ocean

Agency: Associated Press

London. Prince Charles, now bearded, is seen side by side with his great grandfather, King George V, photographed in 1912, wearing the beard and moustache typical of the period

Agency: Press Association

Prince Charles Celebrates His 30th Birthday. Balmoral Castle, Grampian. Prince Charles, who today celebrates his 30th birthday, is joined by Harvey, a golden labrador, during his recent visit to Balmoral Castle. The Prince's kilt is the Hunting Stewart, which belonged to his Grandfather King George VI, as did the sporran which he is wearing. Strict embargo: For first publication in daily papers of Tuesday 14 November 1978

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Photographer: Ron Bell

Romsey, Hampshire. Prince Charles and his bride to be, Lady Diana Spencer with eye only for one another at Broadlands, the home of the late Lord Mountbatten today. The Prince and Lady Diana were opening a new Mountbatten exhibition

ITN Reference: ROYAL/CHAR/131

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London. Lady Diana in another attractive low plunging neckline outfit with the Prince of Wales at the banquet given at Claridge's Hotel in London by King Khalid of Saudi Arabia tonight in honour of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh

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London. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at the Goldsmiths' Hall in the City of London tonight, when they were guests at an entertainment in aid of the Royal Opera House Development Appeal. It was Lady Diana's first official Royal Engagement

ITN Reference: ROYAL/CHAR/129

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell [PA Court Photographer]

London. Prince Charles and his fiancée, Lady Diana Spencer at King's Cross station in London this morning when they arrived by train from Aberdeen after their holiday at Balmoral. The couple were reunited at the weekend

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A touching display of affection, as Prince Charles gently lays his hand on Lady Diana's shoulder, during a polo break at Windsor, just a few days before their wedding

ITN Reference: ROYAL/CHAR/133

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Charles De La Court

The Prince of Wales, and his fiancée, Lady Diana Spencer, leaving the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, after their first night out together in public, since announcing their engagement a week ago. They sat in the Royal box to watch Mayerbeer's opera, L'Africaine, sung by an international cast headed by great American black soprano, Grace Bumbury. See PA story "Royal Covent" timed 2246 onward

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Prince Charles and his bride to be, Lady Diana Spencer, hand-in-hand today as they leave St Paul's Cathedral, London, after a rehearsal for their wedding at the Wren masterpiece on Wednesday

Agency: Press Association

Port Said, Egypt. Prince Charles and his new bride Lady Diana walk the deck of the Royal Yacht 'Britannia' during their arrival here after a week long honeymoon cruise in the Mediterranean Sea. The couple will dine with President Anwar Sadat before continuing their trip down the Suez Canal

Agency: UPI

This photograph issued by Post Office Press office for free publication in newspapers and journals. The Royal Wedding, 29 July 1981, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. Not to be published before 10 June 1981

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Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer being driven from Goldsmith's Hall in the City of London tonight, after attending an entertainment there in aid of the Royal Opera House Development Appeal. It was Lady Diana's first Royal Engagement

ITN Reference: ROYAL/CHAR/130

Agency: Press Association

London. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, 19, in the grounds of Buckingham Palace this afternoon following the announcement that they are to marry. Lady Diana is wearing the sapphire and diamond engagement ring given to her by the Prince

ITN Reference: ROYAL/CHAR/128

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell [PA Court Photographer]

Agency: ScotPix

Photographer: J Geddes Wood

ITN Reference: ROYAL/CHAR/127

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell [PA Court Photographer]

Broadcast Date: 6 December 1981

Photographer: R P Lichfield

London. The special licence for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer is seen 17 June at The Sanctuary, Westminster. The Queen in Council declared her Consent to the marriage March 27, and on the same day issued her Royal Warrant to the Archbishop of Canterbury, directing him to grant his licence for the marriage. On April 16 the Archbishop signed his Fiat directing his faculty office to issue the licence

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Windsor, Berkshire. Lady Sarah Spencer, the 22 year old daughter of Earl Spencer, the latest lady in the land to enjoy the attentions of the Prince of Wales. The couple seen at Windsor Great Park where the Prince recently represented Young England in an international polo match. Lady Sarah, an estate agent, was the Queen's house guest at Windsor Castle during Royal Ascot week. Her father is a former equerry to The Queen. Lord Spencer has four children by his marriage to Frances Roche which dissolved in 1969. His second wife, now Lady Sarah's stepmother is the former Countess of Dartmouth, daughter of romantic novelist Barbara Cartland

Agency: Press Association

Windsor, Berkshire. Lady Sarah Spencer, the 22 year old daughter of Earl Spencer, the latest lady in the land to enjoy the attentions of the Prince of Wales. The couple seen at Windsor Great Park where the Prince recently represented Young England in an international polo match. Lady Sarah, an estate agent, was the Queen's house guest at Windsor Castle during Royal Ascot week. Her father is a former equerry to The Queen. Lord Spencer has four children by his marriage to Frances Roche which dissolved in 1969. His second wife, now Lady Sarah's stepmother is the former Countess of Dartmouth, daughter of romantic novelist Barbara Cartland

Agency: Press Association

Prince Charles girlfriends

Broadcast Date: 31 September 1997

Agency: Keystone

Prince Charles talking with Lady Sarah Spencer, the daughter of Earl Spencer, at Windsor today before he competed in the Smith's Lawn Cup polo final

Agency: Press Association

Prince Charles was out with yet another beautiful girl at Windsor Great Park. Lady Sarah Spencer, 22, spent their third date watching him play polo. Clearly rumours of a recent nature of the imminence of a royal wedding are not to be taken seriously

Agency: Syndication International

These days the British Prince Charles spends winter holidays in Klosters (Switzerland). He is accompanied by his favourite Lady Sarah Spencer

Agency: Keystone

San Diego. Britain's Prince Charles chats with Laura Jo Watkins at a reception last 16 March in San Diego while his Royal Navy ship was on a training cruise. Since then Charles has written to Miss Watkins and the 20 year old secretarial student is now the houseguest of US Ambassador Walter Annenberg in England after being invited to a party for Charles

Agency: Associated Press

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Prince Charles chats to local boys on the first day of his four day official visit

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Calcuta, India. Prince Charles with mother Teresa at "Si Shu Bhawan" children's home run by Mother Teresa. Children welcoming the Prince at the entrance by holding up flags of the two countries on Saturday

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Canterbury. Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie introduces the Prince of Wales, to Pope John Paul II, in the Library of the Deanery, at Canterbury, Kent this morning. The Prince was in the congregation at Canterbury Cathedral service shared by the Pontiff and Dr Runcie. See PA story 'Pope'

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell [PA Court Photographer]

New Delhi, India. Britain's Prince Charles shares a joke with India's President Sanjiva Reddy on Monday

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Photographer: R Pande

Britain's Prime Minister, Edward Heath, poses with Prince Charles on the steps of 10 Downing Street in London today, 3 March. The Prince called on the premier to see the working of the Prime Minister's office. He was to have lunch with Mr Heath

Agency: Associated Press