Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits

This book can be summed up quite succinctly; several hundred beautiful photographs, in a mixture of color and black-and-white, many in full-page format, of the members of Britain's Royal Family over some fifty years from the 1930's to the 1970's. The photographer is, of course, the famous Cecil Beaton, one of the last century's most famous lensmen, who is otherwise best known for his fashion photography and his design work on the movie of "My Fair Lady". Those wanting to start a collection of photography books of royalty would do well to make this volume one of their first acquisitions.