Previously unseen photo marked 'not to be published' of teenage Lady Diana Spencer on a Swiss ski holiday, c. 1979 or 1980 (© Eric Caren/Whitehotpix/Zuma Press)

Sweet photo of a young Princess Di is out of archives, up for auction

1/4/2013

An incredible, never-before-seen photo of Princess Diana — at the tender age of 18 or 19 — is making the Internet rounds. The then-Lady Diana Spencer is seen in front of a window, reportedly at a ski resort in Switzerland; an unidentified man is reading a book that's resting on her shoulder. Scandalously, as far as the royals might have been concerned, a bottle of Johnnie Walker whiskey is seen behind her. The photo was sold to a British newspaper two days after Diana's engagement to Prince Charles but held from publication, presumably because it showed the prince’s future wife relaxing with another man. The photograph will go up for auction on Jan. 17. [Source]

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