The Perfect, Imperfect Royal Family Photo
A scandal erupts in Kensington Palace over a doctored image. Nothing new, carry on.
On January 17, 1852, Queen Victoria gathered her children for a family photo. The Queen tapped famed photographer William Edward Kilburn to shoot the portrait, a Daguerreotype. But, to the Queen’s dismay, her eyes were closed in the photo. The Queen looked, as she wrote in her diary, “horrid.”1
So, Queen Victoria edited it…
