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Prince Philip, seated on a blanket, having a picnic near Balmoral.<br />
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Two previously unknown poems by celebrated writer Daphne du Maurier have been discovered hidden inside a photograph frame.<br />
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They are believed to have been penned in the late 1920s, when she was in her early 20s and an unknown in the literary world.<br />
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The poems were written on a carefully folded sheet of A4 paper concealed within a 5ins high blue leather frame which contained a photo of du Maurier in a swimming costume. <br />
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They were uncovered by an eagle-eyed auctioneer who has been tasked with selling an archive of du Maurier's letters and photos, which includes snaps with the Royals.