A rare picture of the late British Princess Diana has not been published since it was taken 34 years ago.
The black and white photo will be shown inside the former princess’s home in Kensington Palace from next Friday, according to a press release from Historic Royal Palaces.
The image will be shown as part of an exhibition entitled “Life Through a Royal Lens”, which explores the British royal family’s “enduring relationship with the camera,” according to the press release.
The photograph, by photographer David Bailey, taken in 1988, was originally part of a photo session commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, but was not selected for display among the other photographs at the time.
Diana can be seen in the photo looking away from the camera, and the royal watch, Amanda Mata, wrote on her Twitter account that “the late princess’s position in the picture reminds us of the era of “Day Shy”, a title given to her by the press during her formative years in the spotlight “.
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The exhibition “Life Through a Royal Lens” will present the relationship of the royal family with photographers through the decades, in addition to photographs taken by some of the royal family themselves.
The exhibition “Life Through a Royal Lens” will run from Friday, March 4th, until October 30th.
Princess Diana was killed in a traffic accident, accompanied by her Egyptian friend Dodi Al-Fayed, on August 31, 1997, in a tunnel in the French capital, Paris, and several press reports indicated that the accident may have been premeditated, after many news circulated about Princess Diana’s intention. Marrying her Egyptian boyfriend, following her divorce from her husband, the British heir, Prince Charles.
