“Perhaps he was disappointed that his friend, Baron, was not doing this job today whatever the reason he was definitely adopting a rather ragging attitude towards the proceedings.” “This is a pity because, although I’m not one for ‘Navy-type’ jokes, and obviously have nothing in common with him, I admire him enormously, and think he is absolutely first-rate at this job of making things comparatively lively and putting people at their ease. I believe he doesn’t like or approve of me,” Beaton wrote.
“The Duke of Edinburgh stood by making wry jokes, his lips pursed in a smile that put the fear of God into me. Meanwhile, their father Prince Philip was proving to be a difficult subject. He recalled Prince Charles and Princess Anne, aged four and two, “buzzing about in the wildest excitement and would not keep still for a moment”. Then, he was tasked with photographing the family. “I had only the foggiest notion of whether I was taking black and white, or colour, or giving the right exposures.” “I was banging away and getting pictures at a great rate,” he wrote. When he came to capture the Queen, he felt the lighting was wrong but didn’t have time to change anything.
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