'Salacious' Photo of Princess Diana Ordered 'Not to Be Published' Finally Sees the Light of Day [UPDATE]

An "intimate photo" of an 18 or 19-year-old Princess Di is being published for the first time after being put up for auction at a New Hampshire-based auction house.

The photo, owned for years by the Daily Mirror, was snapped in either 1979 or 1980 at a ski resort, and features "a young Diana lying in bed, with a young man seated behind her, and a bottle of Johnnie Walker sitting on the window sill."

Labeled a "salacious teenage image of the future princess," the photo also contains the words "not to be published" emblazoned on its front, possibly explaining how it never appeared in the Mirror, but not why.

The tabloid, which purchased the snapshot two days before Diana's engagement to Prince Charles in February 1981, eventually sold the 10 x 8" glossy news photo along with other archival photos to the Caren Archive, which in turn put it up for auction.

Because of its mysterious nature, the photo is expected to sell for well over $1,000 when bidding ends on January 24th.

UPDATE: Diana's "mystery man" has been identified as Adam Russell, "the great-grandson of former prime minister Stanley Baldwin, and now a deer farmer in Dorset."

The two were both injured during a skiing vacation and "kept each other company... but absolutely nothing happened."

[photo via RR Auction]