![]() ![]() ![]() 'She anchored them in her arms, put her head down to kiss Prince Charles's hair, and made a terrific picture,' he recalled. The pictures Beaton liked most were of the children with the Queen Mother. Meanwhile Prince Charles and Princess Anne, aged four and two, were 'buzzing about in the wildest excitement and would not keep still for a moment'. Afterwards he hurried home for an hour's sleep and 'a fistful of aspirins' before hot-footing it to the Palace to take the official pictures, placing a 1,000-watt lamp behind the Queen to make her face shine.Īccording to Beaton, the 'dimpled and chuckling' Queen Mother was encouraging throughout, but the Duke of Edinburgh was harder to win over – Beaton was convinced he'd wanted a friend of his to get the job. ![]() He had photographed her in 1939, and it was the start of a long Royal association.ĭespite having had too much wine at a dinner party the night before, Beaton made it to the service with sandwiches inside his top hat and a supply of barley sugars. It was the Queen Mother who made sure fashion photographer Cecil Beaton took the official Coronation pictures, including these rarely seen behind-the-scenes images. ![]()
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