This romantic new portrait of the Princess of Wales, wearing her now famous ivory silk wedding dress, wedding veil and tiara against a pale green background, goes on show to the public tomorrow. The picture, painted in oils and behind glass, measures 60 x 48 inches, and was commissioned by the Prince of Wales. The artist is Susan Ryder of Suffolk

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/20

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

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

A coy smile from the Princess of Wales today when she and Prince Charles went to Leeds to open new buildings at the St Gemma's Hospice there

Agency: Press Association

The Princess of Wales, who expects her first child in June, shaking hands with actress Elizabeth Taylor backstage at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London tonight when she met the star of the show and the rest of the cast after attending a charity premiere of the Little Foxes

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe greeting the Princess of Wales at Number 11 Downing Street tonight, where she and Prince Charles were attending a British Film Institute Dinner. Prince Charles is patron of the BFI

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

A Commonwealth stamp using the previously unpublished portrait of the Princess of Wales by an undisclosed photographer for the exclusive use of the Crown Agents' in their issue to commemorate her 21st birthday

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/19

Agency: Press Association

Broadcast Date: 26 January 1982

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/18

Agency: Crown Agents

Agency: Crown Agents

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

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

Agency: Press Association

The Princess of Wales, who announced three days ago she is expecting a baby next June, on a balcony of the old Home Office building in Whitehall, London, this morning when she watched the Queen and other members of the Royal Family, including her husband, leading the nation's mourning for the dead of two World Wars in the Remembrance Sunday service

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

The Princess of Wales listening to the Prince's speech today at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, tonight when they jointly opened the exhibition "Splendours of the Gozaga, Renaissance Lords of Manuta". The Princess's off-shoulder, full-skirted dress is in contrast with the high neckline she wore at the National Film Theatre last night

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/17

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

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

With a tight screen of security men the Princess of Wales continues to meet the people as the couple arrive for a service at St David's Cathedral

Agency: Unknown

The Princess of Wales shows her empathy with children yet again as she stretches a hand to a wheelchair-bound little girl, Joanna Edwards at the Deeside Leisure Centre, Queensferry visited today, day one of her three-day tour of Wales with the Prince, her first official engagement since their marriage. Fashionable as ever, the Princess wore a wide-brimmed crimson hat, red jacket with green collar and belt over a green pleated skirt

Agency: Press Association

Agency: Unknown

Obit

Agency: Northampton Mercury Company Limited

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

Photographer: Mr J Hancock

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

Broadcast Date: 22 November 1984

Photographer: Mr J Hancock

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

A sketch of Lady Diana's wedding dress, the first glimpse. It is made of ivory pure silk taffeta and old lace, hand-embroidered with tiny mother-of-pearl sequins and pearls. The bodice is fitted and boned with a wide frill around the gently curved neckline and embroidered lace panels on front and back. Designed and made by Emanuel

Broadcast Date: 29 July 1981

Agency: UPI

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

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

The portrait of Diana Spencer, commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, that was revealed to the public for the first time today. It was painted by Bryan Organ, who has also painted Prince Charles and Princess Margaret, on a canvas 70 inches by 50 inches

ITN Reference: SPEN/15

Agency: Press Association

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

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 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

Lady Diana Spencer displaying an original style of headgear at the wedding of the Honourable Nicholas Soames, son of Lord Soames, to Catherine Weathersall in Westminster. Her fiancée Prince Charles was best man

Agency: Press Association

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

A smiling Lady Diana Spencer at the Royal Academy of Arts in Piccadilly last night when she and her fiancé, Prince Charles attended a "soiree"

ITN Reference: SPEN/11

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 clay portrait of Lady Diana Spencer, draped in a damp cloth to keep the clay wet is given a final look over by Madam Tussaud's sculptor Muriel Pearson, before it is made ready for the next stage moulding, in a plaster cast from which a wax cast will be taken. The portrait of Lady Diana, fiancée of Britain's Prince Charles will join the London collecting of Madam Tussaud's shortly before 29 July the day the couple are to be married in London's St Paul's Cathedral

Agency: Associated Press

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

ITN Reference: SPEN/13

Agency: London Express

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

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

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

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

Agency: Press Association

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

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

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 made a dramatic entrance to her first public engagement with Prince Charles last night. The crowd gasped as she stepped from the car wearing a low-cut full-length black dress with matching stole. Her diamond drop earrings and necklace completed the elegant evening look. She was accompanying Prince Charles at a recital in aid of the Royal Opera House Development Appeal at London's Goldsmiths' Hall

ITN Reference: SPEN/11

Agency: Central Press

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

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

Broadcast Date: 25 February 1981

Agency: Daily Star

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, 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, at the age of three, at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk

Broadcast Date: 30 June 1981

Agency: Press Association