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28 January, 2013

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A rare photograph of a teenage Princess Diana lying in a man's lap has been sold at auction for £18,000.
The candid snap shows the princess-to-be smiling for the camera alongside an unidentified young man. The photo originally came from the library of Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper. Scrawled onto the photograph itself the are the words "Not to be published" On the back, the photo is dated February 26, 1981 -- two days after Buckingham Palace announced her engagement to Prince Charles. The mother of the second in line to the throne, Prince William, died in a Paris car crash in August 1997, a year after her divorce from Charles.

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