News about Norman Parkinson

In 1935 the exquisitely pretty Paget sisters - identical twins who were also the Debutantes of the Year - took English society by storm. Society photographer Norman Parkinson used them as models and newspapers photographed them at every opportunity. Well-connected, they seemed destined for 'good' marriages and the relative obscurity of upper-class country life. Certainly no one could have predicted that, instead, two of the literary giants of the 20th century would become utterly infatuated with them. George Orwell was the first to be smitten, after meeting Celia at Paddington station. Some time later, in Paris, the French novelist Albert Camus fell madly in love with her sister Mamaine. As leading socialist intellectuals of their day, both authors were the antithesis of the chinless wonders the twins were expected to marry. On the surface at least, two more unlikely romantic pairings seem hard to imagine.

The manipulation of royal photos is nothing new. Official photos have been altered all the way back in the decades, to flatter the sitter, of course. Queen Victoria begged glamorous London photographer William Kilburn to photograph her and her five youngest children in January 1852. The children posed on either side of her mother's Day portrait, but unlike Kate, the resulting photograph showed Victoria sitting with her eyes closed. She had a fright and was unamused.

I was in The Colony Grill Room at The Beaumont hotel in February 2017, with my manager Jonathan Newhouse, the scion of the Conde Nast family that owns Conde Nast, the publishing behemoth behind Vogue, who dated February 2017. I had resigned from my position as editor-in-chief of British Vogue two months earlier. It had been a big decision, but after 25 years, including masterminding the magazine's centennial celebrations, it seemed that now was the time to try a different life.

Sandra Howard, 82, was shot in London, Paris, and New York, as well as on the front page of Vogue frequently. The former model claims she loved the wolf whistles, acknowledging that it isn't right, but it does say, 'I'm afraid life is simpler when you're pretty.' The ageing process is not a beautiful woman's friend but you have to accept it