President Ronald Reagan greets Princess Diana and Prince Charles as they pose for photographers outside the White House

Agency: Reuter

Photographer: Joe Marquette

Prince Charles and Princess Diana greet Vice President George Bush and Barbra Bush during a dinner at reception at the British Embassy, hosted by Lady Wright

Agency: Reuter

West Palm Beach, Florida. Prince Charles of Wales follows the action in Tuesday's polo contest in West Palm Beach, part of the activities planned for the Royal couple on their Florida visit. Diana, Princess of Wales was also present to present a trophy to the winning team

Agency: Associated Press

Photographer: Kathy Willens

London. Charles: new portrait. A new portrait of Prince Charles went on display at the National Portrait Gallery, London today. Painted by Lancashire artist Andrew Ratcliffe, who studied at Burnley and Canterbury Schools of Art, the portrait is an informal study of the Prince looking out of a window at Kensington Palace. Proceeds from the sale of postcards and a collection box at the Gallery will go to the Prince's Trust

Agency: Press Association

Wembley, London. Britain's Prince Charles (left) looks on as Princess Diana cuts a cake to mark the tenth year of the Prince's Trust as a charity rock concert at Wembley on June 20 as pop stars American Tina Turner and British Rod Stewart (right) applaud. The trust helps disadvantaged young people help themselves

Agency: Reuter

Photographer: David Osborn

Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Royal holiday. Sitting on the Marivent Palace stairs in Palma (left to right) Felipe son of King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia, Prince Charles, his son Harry, Princess Diana, William her son, and King Don Juan Carlos, during a pose for photographers

Agency: Associated Press

Photographer: Michael Lipchitz

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

Agency: Press Association

Palma De Mallorca, Spain. Prince Charles and Princess Diana try to get their son Harry, 2, to smile for the cameras during this morning's photo session. The Prince and Princess of Wales with their children are currently vacationing in this resort island, guests of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia

Agency: Reuter

Photographer: Hugh Peralta

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

Prince Charles and Princess Diana photographed for Prince Charles' 40th birthday

ITN Reference: ROYAL/CHAR/146

Agency: Photographer's International

Photographer: Jane Fincher

ITN Reference: ROYA/CHAR/368

Photographer: Daily Mail freelance photographer

ITN Reference: ROYA/CHAR/369

Photographer: Daily Mail freelance photographer

Lady Diana Spencer, who weds the Prince of Wales on 29 July, celebrates her 20th birthday on 1 July. In this picture of summer, 1970, a barefoot Lady Diana grips a mallet during a game of croquet, at Itchenor, West Sussex

Broadcast Date: 30 June 1981

Agency: Press Association

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, in 1974, on the Isle of Uist, Western Isles, Scotland

Broadcast Date: 30 June 1971

Agency: Press Association

Princess of Wales with Michael Edwards, a worker at the London Lighthouse HIV Centre, where she met patients

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/42

Photographer: Gordon Rainsford

Broadcast Date: 31 August 1997

Photographer: Tim Graham

Agency: Unknown

Agency: Unknown

Widely reported to be the new girl in Prince Charles's life, Lady Diana Spencer prefers to keep her own counsel about her involvement with the Prince of Wales. At one time her sister Lady Sarah had her name romantically linked with that of Prince Charles

Broadcast Date: 10 November 1980

ITN Reference: SPEN/5

Agency: Camera Press

Photographer: Charles De La Court

Lady Diana Spencer leaving Coleherne Court

Broadcast Date: 29 July 1981

ITN Reference: SPEN/8

Agency: Photographers International

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

She is, if anything a shade taller than Prince Charles. She has a hint of Victorian elegance about her. Her grey blue eyes have an almost hypnotic quality. Of course it is Lady Diana Spencer, 19. And while matchmakers try to throw Earl Spencer's daughter and Charles together, she cycles unrecognised and unconcerned around London between her Kensington flat and the South London kindergarden where she teaches. While Diana may exude the aura of a future queen, life is not so regal at her flat. There, an hilarious anarchic, almost St Trinians atmosphere exists between Diana and the two girls with whom she shares, all three taking turns with the make-up and generally playing jokes on each other. She is I am glad to discover, human like the rest of us

Agency: Daily Express

It's all come as a rather unnerving shock to Lady Diana Spencer to be shot into the limelight and heralded as the nearest thing to a future Queen that we've seen for a long time. Her friendship with Prince Charles has automatically made her a star celebrity, whether she likes it or not, but the revealing shot of her in a see-through dress that made front pages everywhere, caused her acute embarrassment. She's really a quiet country girl who relaxes with her own kind and is genuinely taken aback by the hungry interest in who will finally marry the heir to the throne. At 19, she lives with girlfriends in a happy London flat and works in a kindergarten school. Her natural charm and simplicity of dress and manner are endearing qualities in any young lady. Whether or not they are the marks of a future Queen is another question altogether. She's not saying anything about Charles and he never says anything about his girlfriends. It's that firm tactful silence behind the pretty face that makes you wonder...

Agency: Syndication International

Broadcast Date: 10 February 2005

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/39

Agency: Press Association

Obit

Broadcast Date: 24 February 1981

Agency: L Express

A November 1980 library picture of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, leaving her London flat to go shopping in the Knightsbridge area. Lady Diana's name is romantically linked with that of the Prince of Wales. She is the youngest daughter of millionaire landowner Earl Spencer, equerry to George VI, and later to the Queen

Broadcast Date: 9 December 1980

Agency: Press Association

Lady Diana Spencer leaving her Earls Court, London flat today to go shopping in the Knightsbridge area. The name of the blonde, 19-year-old daughter of Northamptonshire landowner Earl Spencer is being linked romantically to that of Prince Charles

Agency: Press Association News Photo Library

Lady Diana Spencer, who has been linked romantically with Prince Charles, out near her London flat today. Nineteen, she is the daughter of Earl Spencer

Agency: Press Association

Lady Diana Spencer leaving her Earls Court, London flat this morning, with her bright new Mini Metro, en route to her job as teacher at a kindergarten in nearby Pimlico. She said nothing to reporters about her whereabouts over the weekend while Prince Charles was celebrating his 32nd birthday at Sandringham, amid continued speculation that the couple have a romantic involvement

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 new Mini Metro car outside her Earls Court, London flat when leaving for her job at a Pimlico kindergarten

Agency: Press Association

Broadcast Date: 29 June 1981

Photographer: Carol Barnes

Obit

Agency: Northampton Mercury Company Limited

Lady Diana Spencer in a revealing black taffeta off-the-shoulder dress tonight when she attended an entertainment at the Goldsmiths' Hall, City of London, with Prince Charles. The function, in aid of the Royal Opera House Development Appeal, was her first royal engagement

Broadcast Date: 10 March 1981

ITN Reference: SPEN/12

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

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

ITN Reference: SPEN/13

Agency: London Express

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

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

Lady Sarah McCorquodale, pictured when she arrived at Emanuel's in Brook Street with her sister Lady Diana Spencer

ITN Reference: McCORQ/4

Agency: Keystone

A sketch of the wedding bouquet presented to Lady Diana Spencer by the Worshipful Company of Gardeners, and made by Longmans Limited, London

Broadcast Date: 29 July 1981

Agency: Press Association

Agency: Unknown

The Princess of Wales keeps on laughing as she completes her last but one walkabout in heavy rain on the last day of the tour of Wales

Agency: Unknown

Agency: Press Association

Princess Diana of Wales helped plant some trees at a special ceremony in Hyde Park, also attended by the Prince of Wales on Thursday

Agency: Central Press Photos

The portrait of the Princess of Wales back on display at the National Portrait Gallery today after the repair of the damage inflicted on it by a man with a knife on 29 August. With Mr Bryan Organ (right), the artist who painted the portrait, are the men who restored it, Mr John Ball (left) and Mr Peter Norman. The painting, the first commissioned portrait of the Princess, as Lady Diana Spencer, was inaugurated at the gallery on 23 July

Agency: Press Association

The Princess of Wales, who expects her first child in July, out walking at Aintree race course today when she and Prince Charles went to watch the racing. The big race of the day, the Grand National, was won by Grittar ridden by amateur rider Mr Dick Saunders

Agency: Press Association

Sporting a bump camp (protective helmet) the Princess of Wales at Bridgend, Mid-Glamorgan, on her last solo public engagement today before the birth of her baby, where she officially opened Sony's new £10 million television tube plant on an industrial estate

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

On display at the main gates of Buckingham Palace tonight is the proclamation announcing that the Princess of Wales gave birth to a son at 9.03pm tonight. Prince Charles was with her at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, for the birth of their first child, which weighed 7lbs 1 1/2ozs and has blue eyes

Agency: Press Association

The Princess of Wales looking healthy and happy, seen outside St Mary's Hospital, London, Tuesday afternoon, with her new born son who is as yet unnamed

Agency: Associated Press

The Princess of Wales holds her baby son of less than 24 hours old as she leaves St Mary's Hospital in London today

Agency: UPI

Photographer: Rob Taggart