Two collections of photographs, one newly updated, reveal how important society snappers such as Cecil Beaton were in establishing the royals as sacrosanct figures
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,” she wrote, “we must be deeply grateful to you for producing us, as really quite nice andpeople!” The reality was relative, which is why she used the term twice, had to italicise it the second time, and ended the sentence with an amazed exclamation at the fiction-making feat, but she was right to defer to him.
Beaton the producer sometimes despaired of the uncharismatic mannequins he had to flatter. He sniffed at Edward VII’s “common hands”, thought that George VI lacked “mystery or magic”, and considered Elizabeth II “very inanimate”.
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