Queen Mother’s Cecil Beaton Portraits, 1939
Queen Elizabeth posed for her iconic Portraits by the legendary photographer Cecil Beaton at Buckingham Palace on this day in 1939, 85 years ago, shortly before the outbreak of the…
Queen’s Cecil Beaton Portraits, 1968
The Queen posed for a series of iconic portraits taken by the famed photographer Cecil Beaton at Buckingham Palace on this day in 1968, 55 years ago, an unreleased shot…
Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits by Claudia Acott Williams; Queen Elizabeth II: A Photographic Portrait by Philip Ziegler – review | Art and design books
In 1957, complimenting Cecil Beaton on his volume of royal portraits, the Queen Mother admitted that her clan owed its survival in part to his obsequious camera. “As a family,”…