Kate Middletonis at work!
The Duchess of Cambridge, 40, recentlygot behind the camerato take the cover shot ofCamilla, Duchess of Cornwallfor the latest issue of British magazineCountry Life— and now a behind-the-scenes shot gives a look at the piece of art in progress.
Kate is often behind birthday portraits of her three children —Prince George, 8,Princess Charlotte, 7, andPrince Louis, 4 — and other family moments. The candid new photo offers the first-ever glimpse at the Duchess of Cambridge working behind the scenes.
According toThe Telegraph, when it came time to discuss the cover image, Country Life editor Mark Hedges asked Camilla if she had any thoughts.
“She immediately replied, ‘Oh,I’d quite like Catherine to do it,’ " Hedges said.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Kate Middleton.Shona Williams
“I spent the next three or four minutes desperately racking my brains trying to think of a professional photographer called Catherine. Then suddenly I grasped what she meant — one of the most amazing things that could happen,” he continued. “I found it one of the easier things to nod my head at.”
The final cover image shows Camilla seated on a bench with a basket filled with pelargoniums.
Camilla guest-edited the July issue to mark her 75th birthday and the magazine’s 125th anniversary.
Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles at the premiere of No Time to Die in September 2021.Chris Jackson - WPA Pool/Getty
Hedges said in a statement that the magazine is “thrilled” with the images.
He added: “The photographs are superb and we would be delighted to offer The Duchess of Cambridge another commission!”
Kate’s has evenimpressed professional photographerswith her work.
Arthur Edwards, who has photographed the royal family since the 1970s, previously shared that he’s a “great admirer” of Kate’s snapshots.
“The picture that I love most that she’s done is William and the three children on the swing,” he said about the photo shared in June 2020 to celebratePrince William’s 38th birthday. “I would have killed to have taken that picture.”
He continued, “Everybody’s laughing at their mum, and you know that only a mother or a father could get that picture, and it’s an absolute winner. Charlotte with her arm around daddy, you know, ‘daddy’s girl.’ It’s a lovely picture, I was so full of praise for her on that.”
Edwards also praised Kate for the 2020 project in which shephotographed Holocaust survivorswith their grandchildren.
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The royal also encouraged others to pick up their cameras with herHold Stillphotography project, which captured images of life in lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic. The 100 finalists werepublished in a book.
Claudia Acott Williams, the curator behind Kensington Palace’snew photography exhibitionLife Through a Royal Lens, recently revealed that it was a family member who first sparked Kate’s interest in photography — the royal’s paternal grandfather, Peter Middleton.
“Her grandfather was a very good photographer,” Williams said, according to theSunday Express.“When she was a child, he would show her his slides. It was him who taught her how to take photographs.”
source: people.com
