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1:12 pm, January 4th, 2013
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A previously unpublished photograph of a teenage Princess Diana is going on the auction block and drawing intense speculation more than 30 years after it was taken.
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The picture, believed to be from 1979 or 1980, shows a pre-marriage Diana Spencer lounging with an unidentified man and a bottle of whiskey while on a ski vacation.
“NOT TO BE PUBLISHED” is scrawled across the 8×10-inch, black-and-white shot, snapped by an unknown photographer.
It remained hidden for decades in the archives of the Daily Mirror, which reportedly purchased the snapshot in February 1981, just after Diana’s engagement to Prince Charles was announced.
But the private Caren Archive is now putting the rare photo up for sale through RR Auction in New Hampshire, giving the public its first glimpse at a “new” picture of one of the world’s most photographed women.
Reports indicate that the “intimate” image was originally buried to avoid any appearance of scandal as Diana and Charles prepared to wed.
The threshold for what’s considered royal salaciousness has certainly changed in the intervening years.
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