Born in 1926, a year before “The Jazz Singer” inaugurated the talkies, at her death Elizabeth had her own Twitter account and had starred in skits with other symbols of an eternal England: James Bond, who, like royalty, also spends much of his time in formal attire, as well as Paddington Bear. It accumulated slowly through duty, diligence and the multiplication of modern media. That image, like her status, was multifaceted. She became a cultural icon in her own lifetime, a living work of historical art.
Instead, she achieved something harder and rarer.
Elizabeth brought no masterpieces into existence she was more interested in breeding racehorses than in collecting or commissioning. Louis built a palace at Versailles, and George, though he mislaid America, laid the foundations of what is now the Royal Collection, which, at over a million objects of fine and decorative art, counts as the world’s greatest private art collection.
All rights reserved 2022 / Bridgeman ImagesĮlizabeth II was not like Louis XIV of France or her ancestor George III. Beaton also cultivated a longstanding relationship with Queen Elizabeth II, still a princess when he first met the family, and would go on to photograph monumental events including her. Queen Elizabeth II posing for the artist Lucian Freud.
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