When Hugo Burnand took the photos for Kate and William’s wedding in 2011, he called it “the gig of the century”. Now the former Tatler photographer is tackling the coronation. Burnand, 59, follows in the footsteps of Cecil Beaton, who famously photographed the late Queen, then 27, when she was crowned in 1953.
Burnand is an obvious choice for King Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, who will be crowned at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May. The British photographer took the relaxed but regal portraits of them at their wedding in 2005, and the official 60th birthday photograph of Charles in 2008, inspired by James Tissot’s 1870 portrait of the soldier, traveller and balloonist Frederick Burnaby (but without a cigarette in hand).
