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‘The Enchanted Glass’Įach of these interplays points to the conundrum of the royals’ exceptional ordinariness. That is the point: up-to-date photographic fashion keeps the royals ‘relevant’, adapting venerable constancy to contemporary flux, while some less prestigious images spice up majesty with a dash of informality. The same could be said of Liebowitz or Rankin. Beaton took a lavish, accomplished portrait of the Queen for her coronation in 1953, and another, stripped-down and starkly monochrome, in the 1960s: they are recognisably Beatons of each era. In a recent sitting for Annie Liebowitz, it was Elizabeth who decided that she should be pictured surrounded by grandchildren and corgis.Įach of these photographic stars brings their signature style to the subject. Even when not behind the camera, they often instruct photographers and have firm ideas about how they should be seen. It is unsurprising that such people, for well over a century immersed in an intensifying image-obsessed media culture and now rarely sure that they are not within the range of some lens, develop a fascination for the camera and seek to control it. Prince Andrew was once a keen photographer, and in 1985 even published a very dull book of his snaps, though that is naturally omitted.
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And aside from Snowdon and Lichfield, we have Prince Alfred in the 1860s acting out roles in self-portraits, and more recently the Duchess of Cambridge, whose photographs have appeared in the press. The Queen has regularly been seen wielding a Leica or a Rollei compact (gold-plated, naturally). The exhibition’s title, ‘Life Through a Royal Lens’, at first sounds lazy – a lens that photographs royals is not itself royal – but the display shows us how often the royal family have taken up cameras, some of them with apparent seriousness. A picture by John Swannell shows Diana laughing with her sons and another by Mario Testino has Charles doing the same Rankin gets a laugh out of the Queen, and so on it goes.
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On the evidence of this exhibition, there is, for instance, a durable sub-genre of laughing royals: Lord Lichfield, the Queen’s cousin and another professional photographer, has the family gather before the camera and a television showing a Marx Brothers film so as to capture their laughter. This occurs with great regularity, but amazement is expressed each time: “They are just people, after all!” or rather: “They are also people, after all!”Įven the photographers seem to find this remarkable, and they presumably know better. We may perhaps see an institution that is running out of time, being overwhelmed by an image culture it has successfully exploited for over a century.įrom under the vast weight of robes, palaces, traditions, duties and expectations, their humanity is briefly revealed. We see the work of famed photographers who have heeded the royal summons we might notice some uncomfortable matters discreetly passed over. We see a continual shuttling between grand assertions of rank and dignity – palaces, gilded carriages, fine horses and robes, crowns, furs and diamonds – and more casual moments in which they reveal their apparently more human side. A display of photographs of the royal family now on show at their Kensington Palace in London gives a partial but telling view of the royals’ persistent visual allure. It would be better, perhaps, to acknowledge their existence and their artificiality at once, to say ‘Baron’ Cruddas, ‘Lord’ Offord of Garvel or ‘Dame’ Andrea Leadsom.įor the artifice extends back from noble twig and aristocratic branch through royal bole and root. What is a democrat to do with such titles? Tempting though it may be to wish them away (if I remember correctly, the Morning Star published a curt notice of the marriage of Charles Windsor and Diana Spencer), this is to deny them their undoubted power. That succinct formulation may find an echo in our present, knee-deep as we are in newly minted lords, baronesses and knights, elevated mostly for their services to the Conservative Party.
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“Honours dishonour,” Gustave Flaubert once wrote, confronted with the fabulously pompous, corrupt and incompetent regime of the 19th-century Second French Empire.