In 1939, the photographer Cecil Beaton received a telephone call that he at first thought was a prank. "Mr Cecil Beaton?" the caller asked. "We’d like you to come and photograph the Queen [Elizabeth, ...

The bon vivant royal photographer made portraits of the Windsors for more than 50 years, helping establish their legacy in the public eye. A new book from the Victoria and Albert Museum offers an ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. “An important part of royal image making is continuity,” says Claudia ...

A new book of portraits by famed photographer Cecil Beaton sheds light on how the royals were portrayed in the mid-20th century © Cecil Beaton / Victoria and Albert Museum, London Cecil Beaton’s ...

A detail from Cecil Beaton’s Worldly Colour (Charles James evening dresses), 1948 - The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive Curiously, there has never been a major exhibition dedicated to Cecil Beaton’s ...

From Vogue to Hawarden: An archive exhibition led by his great nephew Charlie pays tribute to photographer Cecil Beaton’s heritage, lavish life, and his family ties to the Gladstones’ estate. London ...

Cecil Beaton, in the 1960s, sitting in his indoor Winter Garden at Reddish House with his pet pug. © Cecil Beaton Archive, Condé Nast Like many people who came from ...

As a photographer and stage designer, Beaton's propensity for self-promotion had already brought him a fair measure of renown in his native England. But the serial publication over the years of his ...

“He’s a total self-creation,” Truman Capote says of Cecil Beaton in an archival clip featured in Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s Love, Cecil. This documentary portrait offers a glamorous, if not terribly ...