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Photos: Remembering Princess Diana, 1961-1997

  • The Associated Press
  • Apr 1, 2021
  • Apr 1, 2021 Updated Jun 5, 2026
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Here's a look back at Princess Diana's life in photos.

LADY DIANA SPENCER

Diana Spencer is shown in an undated family album photo at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, when she was a toddler. (AP Photo/HO)

Anonymous
1962: LADY DIANA SPENCER

Family album picture of Lady Diana Spencer in her baby carriage at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk in 1962. (AP Photo/ho)

Anonymous
1968: DIANA

Family album picture of Lady Diana Spencer in Cadogan Place Gardens, London, during summer of 1968. (AP Photo)

Anonymous
1974: LADY DIANA SPENCER

Family album picture of Lady Diana Spencer with Souffle, a Shetland pony, at her mother's home in Scotland during the summer of 1974. (AP Photo/ho)

Anonymous
1980: London Lady Diana Spencer

Lady Diana Spencer, near her flat in the Earls Court district of London, around November 1980. (AP Photo)

Uncredited
1981: Lady Diana Spencer, Princess Diana

Lady Diana in an unknown location in 1981. (AP Photo)

AP
1981: Princess Diana

Prince Charles and his bride-to-be, Lady Diana Spencer, driving down the course in an open carriage before Royal Ascot in England meeting on June 19, 1981. (AP Photo/Press Association)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
1981: Princess Diana, Prince Charles

The casually clad Prince Charles of Wales and his fiancée Lady Diana Spencer, relaxing on a fence at Balmoral on May 6, 1981, during their Scottish holiday. (AP Photo/Press Association)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
1981: Princess Diana, Prince Charles

Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer leave St Paul’s Cathedral followed by Prince Andrew after a rehearsal of their wedding ceremony in London on July 27, 1981. (AP Photo)

Anonymous
1981: Princess Diana

Lady Diana Spencer in her wedding gown on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in London on her way to the wedding ceremony. Person at left is unidentified. (AP Photo/BIPNA, Pool)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
1981: PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCESS DIANA

Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer are shown on their wedding day at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981. (AP Photo)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
1981: Prince Charles, Princess Diana

With a 25-foot (7.6 meter) sweeping train, The Princess of Wales, former Lady Diana Spencer, leaves St. Paul's Cathedral arm in arm with Prince Charles at the end of their wedding ceremony in London, July 29, 1981. (AP Photo)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
1981: Prince Charles, Princess Diana

Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer are shown on their wedding day at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981. (AP Photo)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
1981: PRINCE CHARLES PRINCESS DIANA

Britain's Prince Charles kisses his bride, the former Diana Spencer, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London after their wedding on July 29, 1981 (AP Photo)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
1981: Prince Charles, Princess Diana

The carriage carrying the Prince and Princess of Wales passes along Trafalgar Square on its way from St. Paul's Cathedral to Buckingham Palace after the royal wedding in London on July 29, 1981. (AP Photo)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
1981: Prince Charles, Princess Diana

Prince Charles and his bride Diana, Princess of Wales, pose in the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace for this picture made after their wedding at St. Paul's Cathedral today. Back row, left to right: Edward van Cutsem, Lord Nicholas Windsor, Sarah Jane Gaselee, Prince Edward, Prince Charles, The Princess of Wales, Prince Andrew and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones. Front row, left to right: Catherine Cameron, seated, India Hicks, standing, and Clementine Hambro, seated. (AP Photo, BIPNA, Pool)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
1981: PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCESS DIANA

The carriage carrying the Prince and Princess of Wales passes along Trafalgar Square on its way from St. Paul's Cathedral to Buckingham Palace after the royal wedding in London on July 29, 1981. (AP Photo)

AP
1981: Prince Charles, Princess Diana

Prince Charles and his bride Diana, Princess of Wales, wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their marriage July 29, 1981, at St. Paul's Cathedral. (AP Photo)

AP
1981: Prince Charles and Princess Diana

Lady Diana Spencer waves to crowds of well-wishers from a horse-drawn carriage en route to St. Paul's Cathedral, London, where she will marry Britain's Prince Charles, heir to the throne, July 29, 1981. (AP Photo/Pool)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
1982: DIANA CHARLES BABY WILLIAM

Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, with his wife Princess Diana, holds his newborn son Prince William as they leave St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, June 22, 1982. (AP Photo/Staff/Redman)

JOHN REDMAN
1982: Prince William

Britain's Prince William, the 6-month old son of British Prince Charles and Princess Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales with his parents during a special picture call at Kensington Palace in London, England on Dec. 22, 1982. (AP Photo/David Caulkin)

David Caulkin
1984: PRINCESS DIANA

This is a 1984 photo of Princess Diana with sons Prince William, foreground, and Prince Harry. (AP Photo)

AP
1985: Australia Diana

Princess Diana stoops down to accept flowers from children seated on a log as the royal couple visited Macedon, Australia, Saturday, Nov. 2, 1985. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier)

JIM BOURDIER
1985: London Princess Diana

Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, arrives at a charity fashion show wearing a silver dress designed by Bruce Oldfield, in London, in 1985. The charity affair was expected to raise £70,000 ($82,600) for the Dr. Barnado Homes, that take care of orphan children. (AP Photo)

POOL
1986: Riyad Princess Diana

Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales sits cross-legged in a Bedouin tent in the desert about 60-miles from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Nov. 18, 1986, and talks with Prince Saod Faisel, son of King Faisal. (AP Photo/John Redman)

John Redman
1987: Princes Diana

The Princess of Wales is pictured during an evening reception given by the West German President Richard von Weizsacker in honour of the British Royal guests in the Godesberg Redoute in Bonn, Germany on Monday, Nov. 2, 1987. Prince Charles and Princes Diana are touring Germany presently in an official state visit. (AP Photo/Herman Knippertz)

Herman Knippertz
1991: Brazil Princess Diana

Britain's Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, hugs and plays with an HIV positive baby in Faban Hostel, San Paulo, on April 24, 1991, on the second day of her visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Caulkin)

Dave Caulkin
Queen Elizabeth

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, right, talks with Diana, Princess of Wales, at the Royal Ascot horse race meeting near London, England, in this undated photo. (AP Photo)

AP
Britain Princess Diana Timeline

FILE - In this July 30, 1992 file photo, Britain's Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, right, meets actor Tom Cruise and his co-star wife actress Nicole Kidman at the Charity Premiere of the film Far and Away in London's West End. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver, File)

Martin Cleaver
Princess Diana Legacy

FILE - Princess Diana smiles in the reception line as she greets guests at a fund raiser for breast cancer research at the National Building Museum Tuesday night, Sept. 24, 1996 in Washington. From left are Princess Diana, Washington Post owner Katherine Graham, Vogue Magazine Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, designer Ralph Lauren and Georgetown University President Rev. Leo J. O'Donovan. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

J. Scott Applewhite
Princess Diana, Lady Diana Spencer

Princess Diana watches the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular at MGM Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida on August 25, 1993. Diana, Prince Harry, and Prince William are spending a few days of private vacation at Walt Disney World. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)

Peter Cosgrove
TERESA

Mother Teresa, left, says goodbye to Princess Diana after receiving a visit from her Wednesday, June 18, 1997, in New York. Princess Diana met privately for 40 minutes with Mother Teresa at The Missionaries of Charity in the South Bronx section of New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

BEBETO MATTEWS
CLINTON DIANA

First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets with Princess Diana at the White House Wednesday, June 18, 1997. On Tuesday night the princess attended an American Red Cross fund-raiser in Washington to aid land-mine victims around the world. (AP Photo/White House)

Associated Press
LADY DIANA IN BOSNIA 10 ANNIVERSARY

File Photo: From Aug. 9, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, poses for photos with two boy land mine victims in Bosnia, in the village of Klokotnica, 60 kms northwest of Tuzla. Both boys had lost legs after stepping on landmines. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

AMEL EMRIC
LADY DIANA IN BOSNIA 10 ANNIVERSARY

File Photo: Princess Diana, center, with Mirzeta Gabelic, a 15-year-old landmine victim, in front of Mirzeta's home in Sarajevo, Sunday Aug. 10, 1997. Lady Diana arrived in three days private visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina to focus world attention on the continuing plague of land mines and to call for complete ban on the production, sale and use of land mines. (AP Photo/Hidajet Delic)

HIDAJET DELIC
Britain Diana Statue

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 1993 file photo, Princess Diana and sons Harry and William at Banana Bay Beach, St. Kitts. Harry and William said on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, that they plan to build a statue to mark the 20th anniversary of Diana's death in a Paris car crash in 1997. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Richard Drew
Britain Princess Diana Timeline

FILE - In this Monday, March 17, 1997 file photo, South African President Nelson Mandela, left, shows the way to Princess Diana, during a meeting in Cape Town. (AP Photo/Sasa Kralj, File)

Sasa Kralj
Britain Princess Diana Timeline

FILE - In this Thursday July 17, 1997 file photo, Britain's Princess Diana rides a personal watercraft with her son Prince Harry, steering, in Saint Tropez, on the French Riviera, where she is spending a few days holidaying. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

Lionel Cironneau
Princess Diana France Remembers

FILE - Britain's Diana, Princess of Wales walks on the quay of the residence of Mohamed Al Fayed, in Saint Tropez, French Riviera, Sunday July 20, 1997. It has been nearly 25 years since Princess Diana died in a high-speed car crash in Paris. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

Lionel Cironneau
Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed

FILE -- In this Aug. 22, 1997 file photo, Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion Dodi Fayed, walk on a pontoon in the French Riviera resort of St Tropez. (AP Photo/Patrick Bar-Nice Matin, file)

Patrick Bar

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