A week after Prince Philip’s memorial, it was revealed that those Queen Elizabeth and Prince Andrew photos were not supposed to be taken at the ceremony.
At the time, the Queen’s disgraced son was seen escorting his mother back to his seat before Philip’s memorial began. The Times’ photographer Richard Pohle was the only person allowed to take pictures of the monarch’s late husband’s memorial.
According to Pohle, Buckingham Palace officials didn’t allow him to take pictures of the Queen before she sat in her seat. However, in a newsworthy attempt, the photographer managed to capture the moment in quick haste by going outside of his official position. “How would she arrive?
There was some speculation that she might arrive using a buggy or even a wheelchair,” Pohle justified in a statement in The Times. “If I had no picture of that I would have the entire British media asking why not.” The photographs shocked the world since they came just weeks after a sexual assault settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre.
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