A press photographer managed to take intimate photos of the royal family in the most unobtrusive way during Prince Philip’s funeral on Saturday.
Arthur Edwards, royal photographer for The Sun newspaper, sat for three hours in a fake pillar just outside St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, where the modest service for the Duke of Edinburgh took place.
And the nondescript site could have been commissioned by the late prince himself, Edwards told ITV’s “Lorraine” Monday.
“He organized all the funeral arrangements and there was never a place at the west door in a shelter and he was an avid bird watcher and built several hides in Sandringham, so I thought it must have been his idea,” he explained. .
Edwards, 80, said Buckingham Palace provided him with lunch and “a big, puffy, soft pillow with a crown to sit on.”
The three hours “went like lightning,” he added.