The Crown in Vogue

A chronicle of the British royal family, told through the photographs that have appeared in British Vogue magazine from the early twentieth century to the present day, published to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch. 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 unrivaled archive and contributions from the most perceptive of commentators–from Evelyn Waugh to Zadie Smith–The Crown in Vogue is the definitive, authoritative portrait of royalty in the modern age.