The Royal Portraits

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An enthralling collection of the finest portraits ever created of the 20th century's most famous family photographed by renowned photographer Cecil Beaton over a period of fifty years and selected from nearly ten thousand vintage prints preserved in his private archive. Extracts from Beaton's unpublished diaries offer witty and candid accounts of his royal sittings and Roy Strong, former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum where Beaton's private archive of royal photographs is now housed, and a close friend of the photographer, tells the story of the most successful union ever forged between crown and camera