A superb book of images of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family.
Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) was an internationally renowned photographer; a gifted designer for film and theatre and an avid diarist.
Throughout his long and varied career he remained a romantic royalist, and his glittering portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family became among the most widely published images of the twentieth century.
From the strenuous years of the Second World War to the optimism of the Swinging Sixties, Beaton’s portraits played a significant role in shaping the public image of the British monarchy.