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

Prince William of Wales sucking on one of the Princess of Wales's fingers at Buckingham Palace today as his mother comforts him after the christening ceremony. The 44-day old infant is second in line for the throne, behind his father, Prince Charles. It was a double celebration for the Royal Family as today is also the Queen Mother's 82nd birthday

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/24

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

The Princess of Wales holds flowers presented to her on arrival at a reception in the Porter Tun Room at Whitbreads Brewery, City of London tonight, which she attended with the Prince. The Royal couple then attended a special concert given to them as a wedding gift by world-famous cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, at the nearby Barbican Centre

Agency: Press Association

The Princess of Wales reaches out to talk to a resident of the Royal School for the Blind in Leatherhead today. Patron of the school, the Princess opened a new extension

Agency: Press Association

The Princess of Wales carries her eight-month old son Prince William to an Andover of the Queen's Flight at Aberdeen airport today, prior to their and the Prince of Wales return to London after spending three days at Craigowan Lodge on the Balmoral Estate

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/26

Agency: Press Association

Agency: UPI

Photographer: Roy Letkey

Prince William with the aid of his mother Princess Diana shows how he can stand and walk at Government House, Auckland

Broadcast Date: 23 April 1983

Agency: UPI

Photographer: Roy Letkey

Princess Diana talks to Genesis member Phil Collins before tonight's concert at National Exhibition Centre

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

Princess Diana, during a visit to the Lisson Grove Health Centre, talks with members of a crowd outside as a child waves a Union Jack

Agency: UPI

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

The Princess of Wales is given a traditional Sikh "Satsriakal" greeting by teacher Mr Paul Bedi during her walkabout after visiting the Family Centre of Sense, the National Deaf-Blind and Rubella Association in Ealing, London today. The Princess is patron of the National Rubella Council

Agency: Press Association