"The Voice Of An Angel" was launched as Charlotte first hit the spotlight aged 11 in 1997, on Jonathan Ross' The Big Big Talent Show. Charlotte was on the programme to introduce her aunt, Caroline Cooper, but ended up singing a flawless, clear-voiced rendition of Pie Jesu - a performance that sealed her breakthrough into stardom.

Several months on, in 1998, Charlotte clinched a five-album record deal with Sony. Not bad for a 12-year-old.

Her first album, Voice of an Angel featured arias and traditional songs and was an immediate success, selling millions around the world.

By 1999, Charlotte was already well-honed in the red carpet routine, donning a tiara and party dress to attend the premiere of Star Wars 1 One - The Phantom Menace.

Her second self-titled album, released in Christmas 1999, delivered a mix of religious and operatic tracks including Just Wave Hello. By this time, Charlotte had found a stronghold of fans on both sides of the Atlantic. She was also the youngest artist ever to top the UK classical chart.

In 2001, Charlotte took two personal tutors on a world tour with her and sat one of her GCSEs at the White House, before performing at the inauguration celebration for former US president George W Bush (pictured here).

By 2001, Charlotte's third album, Dream A Dream, had become a smash hit and her management (by this time headed up by her mother, Maria) rolled out a fourth studio album Enchantment to resounding plaudits.

Charlotte is pictured here on her 16th birthday in 2002. And she certainly had a lot to celebrate; by this point, the singer was a regular fixture in The Sunday Times' rich list and was lauded by critics and fans alike.

Attending a Women Of Achievement reception at Buckingham Palace in March 2004. The past year had seen Charlotte score another chart hit with opera song Jurgen Vries and branch out into acting with 2003 comedy I'll Be There.

2005 was another landmark year for Charlotte - just as some questioned whether her ability to rule the charts was waning, she reinvented herself as a pop singer with single Crazy Chick and her first pop album Tissues And Issues. Both were massively successful and the songstress was once again a big deal in the music industry.

In December 2005, Charlotte threw herself into the festive spirit of things, appearing as Dorothy in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz pantomime on The Paul O'Grady Show.

2006, and Charlotte had found happiness in her private life with rugby star Gavin Henson, whom she started dating the year before (she went onto have two children, Ruby and Dexter, with him).

During this time, Charlotte was often found cheering pitch-side at one of Gavin's matches - including this Wales versus South Africa play-off in November 2007.

She had also established a career for herself as a media commentator and presenter. At the age of 20, she was given her own comedy talk show (Channel 4's The Charlotte Church Show) after guest-presenting Have I Got News For You because "someone thought I was good at it". She also maintained her public profile with regular appearances on programmes like Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (pictured here in June 2008).

Pictured at the V Festival in Chelmsford, August 2009. By now, Charlotte had sold over 11 million albums worldwide and was worth an estimated £20 million.

In 2010, Charlotte released her sixth studio album Back to Scratch. The album featured a cover of Joni Mitchell's River and Charlotte later revealed that it was inspired in part by issues in her personal life, after she split from long-term partner Gavin Henson. She's pictured here on the Chris Moyles Quiz Night show in October 2010.

Performing on the Paul O'Grady Live TV programme in London, April 2011. A few months later, Charlotte covered Zoë Ball on BBC Radio 2's Saturday breakfast show.

The same year, Charlotte appeared before the Leveson Inquiry to testify about media intrusion into her personal life. "There was nothing left; no skeletons," she told Stylist of her treatment at the hands of some media outlets. "They couldn’t get at me anymore and the injustice sickened me."

Here she is reading a statement outside London's High Court in February 2012, after receiving damages of £600,000 from News Group Newspapers in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.

Charlotte performing on This Morning in September 2013. This was just after the release of her EP Three.

Appearing as Stylist's cover in February 2014. In a wide-ranging and candid interview, Charlotte talks about feminism, her fight for press privacy, Miley Cyrus and why she's happy to be running her own record label. The singer releases her fourth EP, Four, on March 10.