Overview
- Several outlets have revisited Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s little-known photography venture as he keeps out of sight during a police inquiry.
- Published in 1995, Photographs: Andrew, Prince Duke of York was framed as a personal visual diary by a self-described tyro rather than a formal royal work.
- The book featured informal family images, including talked-about shots of a young Prince Harry on the Royal Yacht Britannia with a bucket and spade and on a swing.
- Contemporary reviews were scathing, with the Los Angeles Times calling the book “sad and pathetic” and experts criticizing the Harry photos as technically very poor with awkward composition such as a rope crossing his face.
- Andrew defended the images as simple family moments and said the public had missed the point, adding, “I’m not that brilliant.”