David Wall - a life in pictures

David Wall rehearsing with Margot Fonteyn in January 1968 Photograph: Victor Blackman/Getty Images

Wall with his wife, Alfreda Thorogood (Freda Wall), at their wedding in 1967 Photograph: Ron Stilling/Rex Features

Wall with his dancing partner, Doreen Wells, Marchioness of Londonderry, in 1972 Photograph: Anthony Wallace/Rex Features

Wall performs with wife Freda in Swan Lake, 1973 Photograph: Ronald Spencer/Rex Features

The dancer in Sleeping Beauty, 1974 Photograph: Peter Johns

Wall and Fonteyn rehearse for a gala evening in aid of Cypriot refugees in 1975 Photograph: PA Archive

Merle Park, Ninette de Valois and David Wall in Sleeping Beauty, 1977 Photograph: Reg Wilson/Rex Features

Wall with Lynn Seymour in Romeo and Juliet Photograph: Reg Wilson/Rex Features

Seymour, Wall and Kenneth MacMillan during rehearsals for the Royal Ballet's production of Mayerling, circa 1980
Photograph: Roy Round/Royal Ballet

Leslie Collier as Mary Vetsera and Wall in his most famous role as Crown Prince Rudolf in Mayerling Photograph: Leslie E Spatt/Royal Ballet

Wall with Princess Margaret at the Royal Opera House in London after the 1978 premiere of Mayerling Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

David Wall pictured in a rehearsal studio, 1984 Photograph: David O'Neill /Rex Features