Royal Photographers and their iconic photographs: the best of the best

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Photography hobbyists and aficionados unite.

Welcome to the thread where you can display and discuss some of the most iconic photos captured by some of the most talented photographers.

These aren't your average Instagram photos. Oh no. These are the ones that live in your head rent free. The Marie Kondo of photos that spark joy. Where everything in the photo is perfection.

This thread is meant to be fun, light-hearted, and showcase the talents of those behind the lens.

Please do not derail, and do not use this thread to be snarky or have a dig about subjects you don't like, or to other posters. If you cannot keep in the spirit of the thread, then please don't participate or spoil it for others.

Dressing for a night at the theatre Queen Mary style

Wow I can really see the late Queen in that photo of Mary!

I thought that QM was on her phone at the opera for a minute. Before - y’know - realising that it was 1938 or whatever! 😀

She could have married him, IIRC, but she would have had to surrender her "princessnhood" (for want of a better word) and she wasn't prepared to do that.

She is lovely - but I don't like the bodice of the dress. It looks like two of those old fashioned bathing hats!

She had a generous bosom, and certainly didn't need the extra "inch-age".

That photo is really fascinating - mind you, the gold braid industry must have gone into recession when many of these nations became republics 😀

I never knew that Queen Alexandra was deaf.

Not a woman you would cross in a hurry . . .

Yes, and she also had a pronounced limp that was caused after an attack of rheumatic fever. But apparently she soon had women at court copying her gait and calling it the “Alexandra Glide”!

definitely not!

Although, with the weight of the jewels she wore you could probably run away from her quite easily!

Honestly, I imagine she thinks what most of us think when we see ecstatic-appearing photographs of couples or families when we know from experience that the reality is messier and more unhappy. Camilla, from what one gathers, is pretty much the archetypal woman of her background — town house, country house, ponies, Tory politics, half-assed education, debutante, polo, Annabel’s, the kind of minimal jobs taken by debutantes to fit around social life, a no-nonsense realist, experienced in relationships before and after her first marriage, and accustomed to the kind of bedhopping quite usual for that class. I’d say she had a very good idea how doomed that marriage was from the outset.

I suspect she could have brought you down with a well-aimed tiara!

Mrs Alice Keppel, long term mistress of Edward VII. She was well-liked (even by Alexandra), because she was said to be good at managing the King's moods, was aways discreet and didn't flaunt her position.

When the King was in his last illness, Alexandra said that anyone who wished to see the King, and whom he wished to see, should be admitted, so Mrs Keppel was able to say goodbye.

She is of course Camilla's great-grandmother.

Lovely!

I didn't either and I knew about the limp and fashion to copy that - so just read she had hereditary otosclerosis and also how much she put with with from her husband and MIL.

It must have been weird at court to go from Queen Alexandra and her very limited hearing to Queen Mary, who is said to have been able to follow all the conversations going on at a busy table all at once!

Indeed. Alexandra’s children were all born prematurely but healthy and some historians think she deliberately misled Queen Victoria about her due dates as she didn’t want her interfering when the time came!

She was never going to remain DOC. She was going to be Princess Consort. It was all ridiculous. As the wife of the King, she would have been Queen Consort, and had the status of Queen Consort, whatever title she used.

Exactly. Just as she had the title, status and precedence of the Princess of Wales until she became Queen even though she didn’t use that title.

She couldn’t have remained DoC anyway as the DoC is now Catherine.

Couldn’t blame Alexandra for that!

I think this is the most beautiful Royal wedding dress and bridesmaids' dresses.

Prince Philip

Sounds like she would have enjoyed posting on MN, had the Internet existed

I agree. That one is the most iconic of Kate I'd say. And it doesn't look as if it was planned and posed for.

Deaf but not daft was one of me grannie's great sayings.

I'll bet Queen Victoria would have been appearing on MN time and again as an Evil MIL.

And Alexandra would certainly have been told to LTB!