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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Robert Dex

Standard's Beatles-inspired front page celebrates King's 75th birthday

The Evening Standard has marked the King’s landmark birthday with a specially commissioned front page featuring just some of the figures from his long life of public duty.

Inspired by the iconic cover designed by Sir Peter Blake and Jann Haworth for the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it features the Royal Family’s new "Fab Four” of Charles, Camilla, William and Kate.

There are other members of his family, as well as people he has met, worked with and built friendships with during his life.

Here are the famous faces who feature on the cover:

Top row: Singer Beyonce, the Chairman of Historic Royal Palaces Sir Nicholas Coleridge, singers The Three Degrees, actor Peter Sellers, Charles as a young man, magician Dynamo, singer Gary Barlow, DJ Naughty Boy, actor George Clooney and his lawyer and activist wife Amal, journalist Frank Gardner, a Spitting Image puppet of the then Prince of Wales, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Charles as a baby with this father The Duke of Edinburgh and former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell.

Second row: Fashion designer Victoria Beckham and her former footballer husband David, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the King’s former press secretary Colleen Harris, former Fortnum and Mason boss Ewan Venters, designer Paul Smith, actor and singer Harry Secombe, comedian Spike Milligan, singer Barbra Streisand, the Goons star Michael Bentine, singer Lionel Ritchie, TV presenters Ant and Dec, actor Idris Elba, singer Sir Rod Stewart, artist Sir Peter Blake, actor Rowan Atkinson and Albert II of Monaco.

(Evening Standard)

Third row: The King’s cousin David Linley, the King’s step-son Tom Parker Bowles, actor Tony Robinson as Baldrick from Blackadder, Prince Edward, singer Robbie Williams, actor Richard E Grant, the King, actress Joanna Lumley, the Princess of Wales, designer Stella McCartney, Vogue editor Edward Enninful, Director of Community Engagement at the palace Eva Omaghomi, writer Laurens van der Post, the King’s former girlfriend Sabrina Guinness, and Princess Diana.

Fourth row: Former South African President Nelson Mandela, singer Diana Ross, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, actor Stephen Fry, Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, the King’s great-uncle Lord Mountbatten, King Charles III, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Prince William, Princess Anne, Queen Camilla, broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh, singers Dame Shirley Bassey and Kylie Minogue.

Fifth row: Waxworks of the Beatles, a portrait of the King on the front of the Evening Standard, Charles playing polo, a King Charles spaniel, a young Charles during his days at Cheam School and actress Miriam Margolyes reading his children's book, The Old Man of Lochnagar.

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