1971
Charles showed up to a Windsor polo match in June behind the wheel of the Aston Martin convertible the queen gifted him for his 21st birthday.
1972
Gathered at Buckingham Palace, Charles was ready to get this family portrait session going.
1973
Putting the royal in Royal Navy, Sub-Lieutenant Wales prepared to ship out on the HMS Minerva.
1975
When in Canada's Northwest Territories...in April...
Charles' engagement to Lady Diana Spencer was announced Feb. 24, 1981.
Charles and Princess Diana married at St. Paul's Cathedral on July 29, 1981.
1982
Prince William was born June 21.
Introducing Prince Harry, born Sept. 15, outside St. Mary's Hospital.
1985
Charles and Diana met with Pope John Paul II in Vatican City amid their tour of Italy.
1986
Modeling a Viking helmet during a visit to the Shetland Isles was most amusing to one and all.
1988
The Prince and Princess of Wales had the floor all to themselves in Melbourne, Australia.
1989
The diamonds in Diana's Cambridge Lover's Knot tiara weren't the only things that could cut glass at this moment captured in Hong Kong.
1990
This time the polo got the better of Charles, who left Cirencester Hospital in Gloucester with a broken arm suffered in a mid-match fall.
1991
The family gathered for the Easter service at St. George's Chapel in Windsor with Charles' sister-in-law Sarah, Duchess of York, along with Princess Anne and her son Peter Phillips.