Court on camera

I was at Buckingham Palace recently for a rather lovely art exhibition. I’ve been on tour plenty of times with Charles and Camilla, but I never really appreciated that the King employs an artist to ac

With so many medals to fit in the tiniest miniature she had ever worked on, limner Elizabeth Meek literally had to hold her breath when painting the portrait of Charles III, but the result is a resounding success

Anew exhibition at the Garden Museum, Cecil Beaton’s Garden Party, will make you smile and you will leave wanting to go a little more over the top. This infectiously enthusiastic celebration of an ind

That threatened thrones

She is often regarded as the royal family’s hardest-working member with a straightforward approach to her duties. And as Anne, Princess Royal approaches her landmark 75th birthday, which sees the rele

Peter Dench takes a peek behind the scenes of Cunard’s Photographic Archive