Tidworth, England. Prince Charles, ear defenders in place, prepares to fire a burst from a GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun) at Aliwal Barracks, Tidworth, Hampshire, today. Prince Charles, Colonel-in-Chief of the Cheshire regiment, paid a visit to the 1st battalion at the Barracks today, accompanied by Lady Diana Spencer

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London. This is the choir of St Paul's School who will sing at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in St Paul's Cathedral on 29 July. In centre and Mr Derek Sutton, headmaster of the school, and Mr Michael Moxon, right. Both are minor canons of St Paul's

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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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Windsor, England. Prince Charles (England number 4) in action, with Alvaro Pieres (Spain number 1), Howard Hipward (England number 3) during the international polo match England versus Spain on Smith's Lawn. England won 10 - 5

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Windsor, England. Lady Diana Spencer, flanked by the Prince of Wales, whom she weds on 29 July 1981, and her future brother in law Prince Andrew (left) during today's visit to the national polo meeting for the Silver Jubilee Cup, England versus Spain. See PA story "wedding" timed 1830

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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

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London. The bride's mother, Mrs Frances Shand Kydd in conversation with Prince Margaret's daughter, Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones as they arrive at St Paul's Cathedral in London tonight for a rehearsal of the Royal Wedding. Lady Sarah will be one of the bridesmaids when Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer on Wednesday

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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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London. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip ad Prince Charles arriving in Hyde Park for the firework display and lighting of the beacon that signaled the ignition of Royal Wedding beacons all over Britain. Lady Diana did not attend

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Chatham. The official Royal Wedding cake, standing 5 feet high and weighing 255 pounds, made by the Royal Navy's Cookery School, HMS Pembroke at Chatham. It is due for delivery to Buckingham Palace, London. All the work has been the responsibility of Lieutenant Fred Motley, Royal Navy (52, right), from Ingoldsby, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, the Cookery Training Officer in HMS Pembroke and with him in this picture, (l to r), Chief Petty Officer Cook Dave Avery (37) (cake designer) from Gillingham, Kent; Petty Officer Cook David Scott (37) (cake designer) also from Gillingham and Fleet Chief Petty Officer Cook Ken Fraser (49), from Cowplain, Hampshire, also a cake designer

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London. The newly-wed Prince and Princess of Wales wave out of the train window as the locomotive 'Broadlands', named by Prince Charles's late grandfather Lord Mountbatten, pulls out of Waterloo station en route for Romsey. They are to spend the first few days at Broadlands before joining the Britannia at Gibraltar for a Mediterranean cruise

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Broadcast Date: 6 December 1981

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

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London. Waving goodbye to the Royal couple from the steps of St Pauls today after their wedding. Left to right: Prince Philip, Princess Anne, Mrs Frances Shand Kydd, the bride's mother, Captain Mark Phillips, the Queen, Earl Spencer, the bride's father, Prince Andrew, and the Lord Mayor of London, Colonel Sir Ronald Gardner-Thorpe

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London. Prince Charles and the Princess of Wales (right) waving to the crowds outside Buckingham Palace from the balcony after their wedding in St Paul's today. Left to right: Prince Andrew, the Queen Mother, Earl Spencer, the bride's father, The Queen, The Princess of Wales and Prince Charles

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London. Prince Charles gives an admiring look at his brides dress on steps of St Pauls Cathedral, as they left their wedding

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

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Prince Charles (right) is pictured at the helm of the Flying Fifteen "Labrador", as he sails with Uffa Fox at Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, today

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Gibraltar. Goodbye Gibraltar: The new Princess of Wales waves farewell from the Royal Yacht Britannia at the start of the couple's honeymoon cruise Saturday. Prince Charles and his bride arrived by air and drove through a joyous crowd of Gibraltarians to the yacht

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Gibraltar. Enthusiastically cheering Gibraltarians shower the Prince and Princess of Wales with confetti as they drive through Main Street on their way to the Royal Yacht Britannia after arriving at the airport. The newly married couple received tumultuous reception from virtually the entire population of the Rock

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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

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Hurghada, Egypt. A laughing President Anwar Sadat shakes hands with Prince Charles at a military airfield near Hurghada before the Prince and Princess of Wales flew back home at the end of their honeymoon cruise

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Braemar, Scotland. A tartan outfit for the Princess of Wales yesterday, when she and Prince Charles (background) joined other members of the royal family, including the Queen, for their traditional visit to the Braemar Highland Games. It was their first public appearance since their wedding in July

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Paris. President Francois Mitterrand meeting at Élysée Palace with Prince Charles of England who is on a private visit to France. Following the meeting Prince Charles made no statement at all

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Prince Charles visits with Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak along with former British Prime Minister Jim Callaghan in Cairo after the funeral of slain President Anwar Sadat

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The Queen, who succeeded her father King George VI on 6 February 1952, shown in this March, 1981 Library picture with Britain's future monarch and queen, The Prince of Wales and then Lady Diana Spencer, after a meeting of the Privy council at Buckingham Palace, London

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June Mendoza's new portrait of The Prince of Wales. After it was unveiled today by Mr John Knott, Secretary of State for Defence, at the Fishmonger's Hall, London. It was commissioned by the Parachute Regiment. The Prince is their Colonel in Chief. Mrs Mendoza has painted several other members of the Royal Family including The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh

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Prince Charles at the helm, with veteran yachtsman Uffa Fox, off Cowes, Isle of Wight

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Royal archer is Prince Charles trying out a long bow tonight during a Mary Rose Trust reception at the Whitbread brewery in Chiswell Street, London. The bow was recovered from the Tudor war ship Mary Rose, which was Henry VIII's flagship and has been lying on the sea bed in the Solent since 1545. It is hoped that the vessel will be raised later this year. With the Prince is actor Robert Hardy, one of the Trust's advisers

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Nassau, Bahamas. Royal couple arrive in Nassau. The Prince and Princess of Wales made a brief stopover in Nassau this evening on their way to Windermere Island, Eleuthera in the Bahamas where they expect to spend a 10 day vacation. They are shown at Nassau's international airport

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London. Prince Charles gives the Princess of Wales a helping hand as the disembarked from their aircraft at Heathrow today after their Caribbean holiday. See PA story 'Princess' timed 1129 onwards

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Canada's Great Bitter Lake, one of the two paintings exhibited by Prince Charles in the Mall Galleries as part of the exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. His paintings are among 752 on display at the gallery, only a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace

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Watercolour by Prince Charles entitled "Nepalese House in Nauri Danda Village" which is one of two works by the Prince of Wales on exhibit beginning today at the prestigious Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. Charles has been painting for years, but it is his first exhibition in London

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Prince Charles, kitted up makes his final preparations before his last and deepest dive onto the sunken Tudor warship, the 'Mary Rose', lying in about 45 feet of water in the Solent, one mile off Portsmouth, Hampshire. See PA Story 'Prince' timed 1804

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Prince Charles surfaces from his last dive onto the sunken Tudor warship 'Mary Rose' onto the Sleipner stationed above the wreck in the Solent a mile off Portsmouth today. It was his ninth dive into the wreck lying in 45 feet of water in the seabed mud and which is due to be raised later this year. See PA Story 'Prince' timed 1804

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Above the 'Mary Rose' the Solent, Prince Charles back in his 'dry' suit leaving the Sleipner the boat stationed above the sunken Tudor warship "Mary Rose" on which the Prince has made his last dive today before she is raised later this year. It was the Prince's ninth dive onto the wreck, lying in 45 feet of water on the mud seabed of the Solent, one mile off Portsmouth, Hampshire. See PA story 'Prince' timed 1804

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Birmingham. Prince Charles attends his first rock concert here 14 May and meets the 'Status Quo' after the performance, it was 'Status Quo's 20th Anniversary concert in aid of charity with 11,000 fans taking part

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London. The Prince of Wales arrives at Westminster Abbey, London, today for the Chapel of St George service of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, of which he is the Great Master

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Broadcast Date: 31 October 1967

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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'

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London. The Prince of Wales bearing a red marked mouth, the result of being hit in the face by a polo stick yesterday, during todays visit to the Pirate Club, on London's Regent Canal, where he launched the £20,000 narrow boat Pirate Princess. See PA story 'Charles' timed 1239

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Isle of Wight. Prince Charles standing over the Needles Rocks, the westernmost point of the Isle of Wight today. He visited the island to unveil a bust to Lord Mountbatten, a former Lord Lieutenant of the island, who was killed by an IRA bomb in 1979. See PA Story 'Prince' timed 1424 onwards

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Aldershot. Prince Charles joins in the fete at Aldershot today when he visited the Royal Regiment of Wales as its Colonel in Chief. He tried chipping a golf ball into a basket, however, his shot was wide of the mark. See PA Story 'Charles' timed 1336 onwards

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London. Jubilant crowds of well wishers reach to shake the hand of Prince Charles tonight outside St Mary's hospital after it was announced that the Prince was father to a son. The Princess of Wales was delivered of a son at 21:03 London time and both mother and child are described as 'doing well'

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London. The proud father leaving St Mary's hospital in Paddington tonight with his baby son is the Prince of Wales, who was leaving with the Princess less than 24 hours after the birth of the infant

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Tender moment for proud Royal parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, as they look at their son as they leave St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, tonight less than 24 hours after the infant's birth

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London. London taxi driver Peter Ewens, 33, showing the Prince of Wales the bell that he recovered from the Mary Rose wreck off Portsmouth. Mr Ewens is a volunteer diver who has worked for 3 years as a diver on the project to raise Henry VIII's warship. Prince Charles is the president of the Mary Rose Trust

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Photographer: Ron Bell [PA Court Photographer]