‘Andrew’s aghast eyes echo The Scream’: is the arrest photo the ultimate royal portrait?

Captured in the back seat of a Range Rover, this image of Mountbatten-Windsor is full of shock, pain and horror, bringing to mind dark works by Munch, Goya and Courbet. Will this be how history remembers the royals?They say the camera adds 10 pounds. Does it also add a sudden, terrifying understanding of the abject horror of existence? Phil Noble’s apparently does. The Reuters photographer’s shot of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaving Aylsham police station in the back of his Range Rover is an image filled with shock, pain and horror. Noble’s harsh, blinding flash paints Andrew in pink, red and white – his skin is sickly, his eyes are hollow and red like a rat’s. His hands are steepled as if in prayer, like he’s pleading with a higher power for absolution.Much like the eerily similar 2019 picture of his father, Prince Philip, in a car, this photograph’s composition is one of pure luck. Noble took shots as Mountbatten-Windsor rushed past. Two were blank, two were of the police, one was o...


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