The Crown in Vogue

Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages.... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history.

Its first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's sister and returned as Lord Snowdon. The Queen's cousin, Vogue's Lord Lichfield proved an insightful photographer of royal style along with many of Vogue's fashion photographers including Horst, Norman Parkinson and David Bailey. With visual treasures from Vogue's unrivalled archive and contributions through the decades from the most perceptive of royal commentators - from Evelyn Waugh to Zadie Smith -The Crown in Vogue is the definitive, authoritative portrait of royalty in the modern age.

About the Authors

Robin Muir is a photographic historian and writer on photography. He has curated major exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven. His most recent exhibitions are Vogue 100 A Century of Style and Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things (both National Portrait Gallery, 2016 and 2020). Formerly Picture Editor of Vogue, he is currently a Contributing Editor with the magazine.

Josephine Ross is a literary and royal historian, the acknowledged expert on Cecil Beaton's career with Vogue and an authority on the life and works of Jane Austen, the subject of her most recent book Jane Austen and her World (2017). Her previous books include The Monarchs of Britain (1982); Beaton in Vogue (1986); Royalty in Vogue (1989); and Society in Vogue: The International Set Between the Wars (1992).