Sir Cecil Beaton, CBE was a British fashion, portrait, and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was also the favored photographer of several generations of the British Royal Family
Just two weeks away from the release of the latest season of The Crown on Netflix we check out the Beaton Archives at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to check out the Royals as he saw them. You can see the whole archive when the Museum is open (!) as it was bequeathed to them by Beaton’s devoted secretary Eileen Hose
was a British fashion, portrait, and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was also the favored photographer of several generations of the British Royal Family 
