Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

45 YEARS PHOTOGRAPHING the ROYALS

Arthur Edwards is the veteran newspaper photographer who has spent his life capturing on- and off-duty portraits of the Windsors. In an exclusive interview he talks to The Weekly about his passion for the job, what the royals are really like and shares his favourite shots.

rthur Edwards is an original Eastender, raised in Stepney, East London, his dad a lorry driver – also called Arthur – his beloved mum Dorothy running the family home. He left school at 15 and when Arthur senior died a year later and Dorothy went to work as an office cleaner to put food on the table, she made an inspired purchase that would transform her son’s life. “She didn’t want me to end up

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