A fashionable, demure Diana fit perfectly into her role as the most public of princesses. While outwardly they endeavoured to present the picture-perfect couple to the world, by the mid-80s cracks were starting to appear in the chalk-and-cheese relationship of Charles and Diana
Thu 30 Aug 2007 10.06 BST First published on Thu 30 Aug 2007 10.06 BST
It might look like a paparazzi shot, snapped unawares in the long grass by the river. In fact, this sanctioned portrait catches the newlyweds in casual mode in Balmoral at the end of their August 1981 honeymoon. Charles looks at home in the Scottish setting. His wife, by contrast, appears to have one foot firmly planted in Sloane Square.
The princess meets and greets the crowds at the Open Expo in Canada. The only person apparently unimpressed is the Liliputian tyke with the oversized spectacles. Probably a budding republican.
Diana in sombre mode, shrouded by a black veiled hat during a trip to the Birthright Centre in Sheffield hospital, April 1986. With its heightened - almost theatrical - air of gloom, it is a classic image of 80s style.
Another sober side to the princess, this time accompanying Charles to Arlington military cemetery on a chill November day in 1985. It was during the course of this US tour that Ronald Reagan, his mind wandering, famously introduced her as "Princess David".
Diana congratulates a victorious Charles at the end of a polo match in 1988. At the time the image was seized on by the press as evidence of a happy, healthy relationship. In fact, the marriage was already starting to sour.
