Speculation was rife in the world's press that Prince Charles would announce his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer, 19, on the occasion of his 32nd birthday on Friday 14 November. He didn't and the world still waits for the announcement. A charming portrait of Lady Diana Spencer taken in September 1980

Broadcast Date: 9 January 1981

Agency: Syndication International

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

ITN Reference: SPEN/9

Agency: Press Association

Lady Diana Spencer photographed in Sussex, September 1980, the first picture of her before/as the romance began! Obit

Broadcast Date: 29 June 1981

Photographer: Edwards

A September 1980 library picture of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, whose name is romantically linked with that of the Prince of Wales. In this picture she is shown at the kindergarten where she works in Pimlico, London. She is the youngest daughter of millionaire landowner Earl Spencer, equerry to George VI and later to the Queen. Her grandmother is Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen Mother

Broadcast Date: 9 December 1980

Agency: Press Association

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 News Photo Library

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

Lady Diana Spencer celebrates her 20th birthday on 1 July. She weds Britain's Prince Charles on 29 July. Family album photos show her when she was three years old (left) and seven years old (right). Obit

Broadcast Date: 30 June 1981

Agency: UPI

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, during a summer holiday in 1970, at Itchenor, West Sussex

Broadcast Date: 30 June 1981

Agency: Press Association

A September 1980 library picture of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, whose name is romantically linked with that of the Prince of Wales. She is shown in the garden of the kindergarten where she works in Pimlico, London

Broadcast Date: 9 December 1980

Agency: PA News Photo Library

Lady Diana Spencer's look of astonishment as she stalls her car, a new mini metro, outside her Earl's Court, London flat this morning when leaving for her job as teacher at a kindergarten in Pimlico. Speculation continues that she may have a romantic involvement with Prince Charles who celebrated his 32nd birthday last Friday

Broadcast Date: 17 November 1980

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

Agency: Press Association News Photo Library

A close-up of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, who favours casual clothes. Her name is romantically linked with that of the Prince of Wales, whom she has known since childhood. She was educated at the West Heath School for Girls, Sevenoaks, Kent, and currently works in a Pimlico kindergarten

Agency: Press Association

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

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, a friend of Prince Charles, at Ludlow racecourse this afternoon when she watched him finish second on his ex-Irish gelding Allibar in the Club Amateur Riders' Handicap Steeplechase. With her are Lady Camilla Parker-Bowles and Mr Nick Gaslee, the horse's trainer

Broadcast Date: 10 February 2005

ITN Reference: ROYAL/DIANA/40

Agency: Press Association

Includes a list of books in print and forthcoming Edward Thomas publications available at The Selborne Bookshop

Full catalogue entries with images. Hard-copies include pencil annotations with the figures each lot sold for

Beaminster, Dorset. Designer and furniture maker Mr John Makepiece at Parnham House near Beaminster, Dorset where tomorrow Viscount Linley, 18 year old son of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon, begins a course in carpentry. Mr Makepiece, who directs the School for Craftsmen in Wood, also runs the adjoining John Makepiece Furniture Workshops renowned for unique pieces of furniture designed for private houses. In addition to working with wood, Viscount Linley will also learn marketing and economic planning there

Agency: Press Association

Card with song marked "Hardwick"

Includes letter accompanying deposit from "Muriel" to "Sue", 29 September 1974

Includes a calligraphy alphabet by Bill Sykes