The evolution of the Windsors: 40 years of covering the royal family

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'We would cover for each other to fetch coffees, sandwiches or cigarettes ... nervous that the 'news' would happen in our absence. It was even riskier for photographers who, pre-digital, would 'share a neg' so that someone didn’t lose their job if they ...

Fergie’s mystic healer? The Queen Mum in hospital or a royal mysteriously absent from Ascot?

Princer Harry’s first day at school reported by Tim Barlass in the Evening Standard dated September 11, 1989.In 1983 the Queen’s head gamekeeper William Fenwick was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in the New Year’s honours. He agreed to let the local paper view the game store where birds shot by the royals on the Windsor Estate we’re hung for a day, or several. It was stuffed to the rafters with woodcock, pheasants, pigeons and more. “No photos please” said Mr Fenwick.

Fergie, married to Andrew, Duke of York, in the headlines of late, always seemed to be in the news in the early ’90s. A letter requesting an interview with her father Major Ron Ferguson, polo pony trainer extraordinaire, was sadly declined by his wife in December 1987. Susan Ferguson wrote on Dummer House headed notepaper “My husband feels that we should not be giving interviews of this nature at the present time.

The same year the press pack is assembled outside Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where the Queen mother has had a one-hour operation to have a throat obstruction removed. Had they discovered a lump or was it food? After all the Queen Mum was 92 and there had been a well-publicised past incident when she choked on a fish bone.

 

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