Cecil Beaton and the Queen s relationship started in 1942, her first sitting was as a teenage princess. And for the next three decades he recorded the major events in the Royal family s life. Wartime images, formal coronation photographs and charming images of the Queen with her children especially her newborn. Cecil Beaton s personal scrapbooks bring the images to life. I rather liked the notes about the two royal Gloucester Princes who for their Coronation photographs were pulling their mother s train, by the afternoon they must all have been exhausted having been up since 5am getting ready.
It really is worth a visit to the V and A before the exhibition closes on the 22 April 2012.
Saturday, 18 February 2012
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