PHOTOGRAPHY

Unseen royal photos include new mothers and a young Charles

Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography, a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, charts the evolution of royal photography from the 1920s to today

The four royal mothers, left to right, Princess Alexandra, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Kent, who gave birth within two months of each other in 1964
The four royal mothers, left to right, Princess Alexandra, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Kent, who gave birth within two months of each other in 1964
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Ellie McDonald
The Times

Buckingham Palace is to host an intimate photography exhibition to celebrate a hundred years of royal portraits.

Opening at the newly renamed King’s Gallery on Friday, Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography, will chart the evolution of royal portrait photography from the 1920s to the present.

More than 150 items of photographic prints and previously unreleased correspondence from the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives will be displayed.

Queen Elizabeth II,1985, by Andy Warhol
Queen Elizabeth II,1985, by Andy Warhol
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Alessandro Nasini, curator of Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography, said: “The Royal Collection holds some of the most enduring photographs ever taken of the royal family, captured by the most celebrated portrait photographers of the past hundred years — from Dorothy Wilding and Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz, David Bailey, and Rankin.

“Alongside these beautiful