[ Indistinct chatter ] [ Indistinct conversations ] [ Laughter ] -I just don't know these things.

We've got a little homage.

[ Camera shutters clicking ] Ma'am, this camera.

You're so kind, sir.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

I've been photographing the same family for 45 years.

[ Cheers and applause ] I followed their lives across four generations.

They've invited me into their homes.

And I've traveled to more than 120 countries with them.

One of them even made me an M.B.E.

I'd been there during the bad times.

And had been there for the happy times.

[ Cheers and applause ] Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself.

Let's go back to the start.

♪♪ ♪♪ It's a beautiful day here in Hyde Park and I'm just getting my equipment ready, checking it's everything's right because I'm going to be photographing the Prince of Wales and his lovely wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

First time I ever saw Prince Charles.

I was on my way to a day's outing with my youth club leader.

But stupidly, I arrived late and they'd gone without me.

And I was so unhappy.

I was so unhappy.

I was really looking forward to this.

So I walked down to Shadwell Gardens, which was in Stepney in East London, and I saw these people gathering and I thought, "What's going on here?"

-[ Over TV ] Britannia -- A brave and stirring sight moves up the Thames.

Now Londoners see again for the first time in nearly six months, the Queen whose charm captivated all who saw her in the most distant lands of her commonwealth.

-And that was the first time I saw him.

And, yet, I've worked with him now for the last 45 years.

♪♪ I was born in the war, August 1940.

And a month later the Blitz started.

Where we lived in, by the docks in East London, we got bombed out, and I was evacuated to Devon.

Then we moved into -- back into East London, where my father had a house that went with the job.

But, um, yeah, life was great.

And then when I was 16, just started work, Dad died.

You know, he had cancer, and we didn't really know how it really was.

He kept it all from us.

And then life for our family took a big dive south because dad was the money winner.

Mum never went to work, and now she had three children.

I was the oldest.

We had to leave the house.

We went to a very small flat about a mile away.

But she did a couple of good things, my mother then, I'll never forget.

She bought me a camera, a Rolleiflex camera, which at the time was the top camera.

It was £46.

And that was a fortune then.

And then I got a job which was at a local paper, and it was a very, very productive news area then.

They used to have a showbiz correspondent and the Krays, of course, had a club, the Kray Twins, and -- and you'd go over to their club and do pictures.

And I remember they'd give you a fiver.

And, of course, then I met my wife Ann.

She was a nurse at the local hospital.

We met at the church.

We're both Catholics.

[ Mid-tempo jazz music plays ] One day The Sun picture desk phoned me and asked me to do a job for them.

I'll never forget.

It was March the 1, 1974.

It was a show in London called "No Sex Please, We're British."

It was in the Aldwych Theatre and I went along.

The Wolves football team were in for a cup final the next day, and John Richards was their star striker.

And there was a very, very pretty showgirl there showing an awful lot of herself.

And I got this picture with John Richards, and I came back and it -- and it published.

It was just luck.

You know, you do your first shift and you're lucky if you get a job at night anyway, let alone to get a job like that and to make it work.

Beautifully exposed.

No wonder I got another shift afterwards.

[ Laughs ] "No Sex Please, We're British."

That was my lucky break because I never stopped working for The Sun from then onwards.

[ Camera shutter clicking ] [ Mid-tempo jazz music continues ] ♪♪ ♪♪ The first office I ever worked with in Fleet Street in Bouverie Street was grubby.

I mean, once described by one of the subeditors, where the -- where the mice used to be seen running away from the canteen.

They didn't want to go there.

It was that bad.

And I mean, people were just share typewriters.

The place was always littered with paper because that's what newspapers were like then.

And the whole building was throbbing with the -- with the printing presses turning out 4 million copies of the paper a night.

Imagine that, 4 million.

And it was just a great place.

After work, you'd go to a -- perhaps up to the Cheshire Cheese or to the Tipperary, or maybe to a male pub, the Harrow.

It wasn't all about the drinking, it was about great newspapers as well, great stories and great, just great adventures as well.

It's a fraternity.

The newspaper business is a business where it's almost like them against us or us against them.

You know, you're there to tell the story.

And obviously some of the stories people don't like, and you get a bad -- a bad feeling about that.

But it's when the stories you do that are great and you see the difference it makes to their lives, then it's worth it.

One day I met a reporter in the office, James Whittaker.

He said, "I'm going to the polo later.

Would you like to come with me down at Windsor?"

I said, "Okay."

And, um, at the end of the polo match, Prince Charles is feeding sugar to his ponies.

I took the picture, came back to the office.

Boom, in the paper the next day.

Oh, this is nice.

The next time he went, I went with him again.

And same thing.

You know, Prince Charles did something with his ponies at the end.

And pretty soon I was doing a bit more.

A bit more of that, but nothing official.

And I got very lucky one day when I was driving to a polo match and I found Prince Charles's ponie's wagon broken down, and the groom was in a bit of a state.

She was getting really upset.

I said, "Look, don't worry."

And I called the police.

The squad car came.

They sorted it out.

From then on, I knew everywhere the Prince was going to be playing polo.

[ Camera shutter clicking ] That was when he started to know who I was.

And then I did his bald spot picture.

I was coming away from a polo match, just as he was rushing off and as he turned round, I saw this huge bald spot in his head there, and I took a picture of it.

And then I did a picture of him in profile.

So the next day picture's a splash picture.

And the headline was -- Oops, Charles!

There's a Patch In Your Thatch.

I gulped, you know?

I thought, "Oh, my God," you know, 'cause I thought the Prince would be raging.

Anyway, three days later the policeman comes and sees me.

He says, "I think he's going to have a word with you about that picture."

So, of course, the Prince comes over on his horse.

He says, "Oh, hello!"

He said, "Are you the chap who took the picture of my bald spot?"

I said, "Yes, sir."

He said, um...

I said, "Oh, have you been getting much stick about it?"

He said, "Well, not really."

He said, "But I mean, who saw it?"

I think we were selling 3 million copies a day then.

I said, "Well, about 7 million people."

He went, "Oh, my God."

He said, "That's the reason why everywhere I go, people are photographing the back of my head."

[ Laughs ] -Queen's Flight Andover touches down at Dubrovnik, bringing to Yugoslavia His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on his first ever visit behind the Iron Curtain.

-But on that trip it was going quite badly.

There was very little published.

The Prince was going to this art gallery.

A couple of photographers were saying, "Oh, what a boring art gallery," you know?

And I was thinking the same, you know, boring art gallery, but I went.

And as he was walking around, he came across this nude painting and he looked at it, and I photographed him looking at this nude painting.

And he turned to me and he said, "Why don't you put her on page three of The Sun?"

I was -- I was shocked.

I didn't say anything and immediately went and filed that picture.

And it was the page-one picture.

On page three, where we used to have a nude -- nude picture every day of a model, it said "by royal appointment."

Prince Charles bought Highgrove, and then see there at the bottom of his land there's a public footpath.

I'm walking along this footpath and I got this big lens on my shoulder.

All of a sudden he comes galloping up on his horse, the Prince, and he's screaming, "What are you doing on my land?!"

And I said, "Well, you know, I'm just doing my job."

And he said, "Some job."

And I said, "Well, at least I've got a job."

Thinking I've, you know, I've been on the staff 18 months now and I want to keep this job.

At least I've got a job which he took as an insult.

And he galloped off back to the house.

The following week I'm at the polo match.

The policeman comes up and he said, "What the hell happened at Highgrove last week?"

I said, "Why?"

He said, "Well, we was all sitting in the kitchen."

He said, "And he comes screaming in.

The door slammed.

And said, 'You're supposed to be guarding me.

And Arthur Edwards is on my front lawn!'"

[ Laughs ] When I was given this job to find out who Prince Charles was going to marry, I was obsessed with getting this, who was going to marry.

I didn't stop working.

I was working weekends.

It was on a Saturday.

We never worked Saturday unless you worked a shift for the news of the world.

But it was on Saturday I found Diana.

I got a tip that he was playing at his polo match.

He turned up with a girl called Lady Diana Spencer.

So I walked round this polo pitch and I came across this very pretty looking girl.

And she had a necklace on with a "D" on it.

So I said, "Excuse me, are you Lady Diana Spencer?"

She said, "Yes."

I said, "Can I take your picture, please?"

And she said, "Yes."

And she posed like this.

I must have took about 3 or 4 frames, and then I didn't see any more of her after that.

But I went and phoned the office and I said, "Who is Lady Diana Spencer?"

And they came back and they told me she was the youngest daughter of Earl Spencer, who was a former equerry to the Queen.

"Well how young?"

And he said, "Well, she just had her 19th birthday 1st of July."

So I remember saying, "Oh, God, he's not running around with teenagers," you know.

I thought it was a mistake had been made.

Anyway, I sent the picture back to the office.

and I wrote a note.

I said, "Whatever you do, do not syndicate this picture.

I'm not sure."

Anyway, that was July.

So first Saturday in September I'm driving along Deeside at Balmoral on my way to the Braemar Games, and I see Charles fishing in the river.

And I put the brakes, go steaming over there.

And there's this -- I thought was the ghillie dressed in all the waterproofs and the hat and the leggings.

It was Diana.

And she saw me and she hid behind a tree, and suddenly she made a dash for the car through the trees.

And I've got all these pictures of her running for the car.

And he packed his fishing gear up and off they went.

That was the clue, really, that this one was someone special.

By this time we were streets ahead of the opposition now.

Then I went to the nurseries all around London where she worked.

I came here, knocked on that door, and the lady came and I said, "Does Lady Diana Spencer work here?"

She said, "She does."

I said, "Will she come out and pose for a picture for me?"

She said, "I'll ask her."

She did.

She came out.

We went into the park with two of the children from the nursery.

I photographed her and halfway through the photographic session the sun came out and she had -- And you saw these beautiful legs in this see-through skirt.

Many people have sort of disparaged me over that.

Because they've said, "I don't like it.

You shouldn't have done that picture."

But, I mean, I didn't put her there to do that picture.

Literally halfway through taking the picture the sun came out.

It's a picture that's become iconic, really, I suppose.

And whenever I show that picture, people say, Oh, my God, did you take that?"

And I say, "Yes, I did, and I did it just by that tree over there."

♪♪ This is Coleherne Court, first floor flat there where Diana lived with three of her flatmates.

She moved out for the last time.

In fact, I did a photograph of her leaving the last time where she went to move in to Buckingham Palace after the engagement.

-So began a day of royal excitement.

For months, the couple had been trying to avoid the photographers.

The relationship between the two sides has sometimes shown a certain amount of strain.

But that had all vanished when the Prince and his lady stepped out into the garden of Buckingham Palace and faced the cameras.

♪♪ ♪♪ -That summer building up to the wedding was an amazing 1981.

And of course, all through that summer she was going to the polo matches with him and we're getting great stuff.

♪♪ ♪♪ I've got them sitting together in the grass and she's looking around at the camera cracking pictures.

She was then, you know, Lady Di with Lady Di mania.

The readers couldn't get enough of it.

We put out a "anyone Looks like Lady Diana come to the park this afternoon," and we got these, because she used to wear these frilly-neck blouses and the short haircut.

♪♪ And about six of these girls all came down to the park.

All Lady Diana look alikes, and we put them in this.

Charles walked by and he saw them all.

He looked at me.

[ Laughs ] This picture, This is what I say I've been -- been lucky.

On the Monday before the wedding.

The wedding was on Wednesday.

This is the Monday.

This is the rehearsal at Saint Paul's.

And I was just driving to the office and I saw Prince Charles's car.

I thought, "My God, he's there."

And I just literally left the car there, grabbed the camera, ran across the stairs there, just as they were walking down the stairs together.

And as she saw me, Diana, she held Charles's hand.

And this headline -- Darling Di, You're Lovely, But Promises You Won't Lose Anymore -- One More Pound."

And obviously, you know, we all thought because the Princess wanted to be a sort of slim bride, she was losing weight to fit in her wedding dress.

But of course she was suffering from this sort of bulimia, which we found out later.

It was a mania that had taken over the world, you know, this wedding.

[ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪ I picked the wrong position for the wedding because I should have gone to the palace.

But I wanted to do the dress.

I had a position up there, and I got this fabulous picture as they walked down the steps.

We saw this magnificent train.

Longest train of any royal bride ever, and it was 25 feet long and it made a wonderful picture.

The subeditor put this brilliant headline on -- The Train Now Standing At Saint Paul's.

So, you know, it worked out okay for me.

But it wasn't the page-one picture, which is when you're doing a wedding, you want to get page one, and the page one is always the kiss on the balcony.

And so we had a great paper the next day.

And then we were selling 4 million copies a day.

And I used to drink then, and the champagne was flowing.

and I was spotting little things like the coachman behind her carriage was a policeman.

I looked through the library quickly.

I had a picture of him with her, with the policeman at the polo.

The Cop Who Rode Shotgun For Di, because he would be armed.

It was just one of the great days of journalism, when only one story that matters.

And -- And you're doing your best every day to make it better than anybody else.

And pretty soon she announced that she was expecting William.

And in the early days, when it was aggressive, when -- when in the '80s when anything goes.

I mean, I went to the Bahamas.

And I did these are pictures of her in a bikini, five months pregnant on the beach with Charles.

I did them from a long lens, hiding in the bushes, and it caused uproar here.

I probably regret that.

Of all the things I did, I regret those pictures.

It wasn't good to be doing.

It was the only time, actually, I actually photographed him where he didn't know I was there.

So there was aggressive times.

There were times when I -- all I wanted to do was get the pictures.

I didn't care who it upset, what happened.

But you see, slowly you see these people not just as objects to photograph, but as...as people.

And I've watched Prince Charles make these speeches all over the world trying to make a difference to the climate, trying to make a difference to people's lives.

And so you don't want to do pictures of him pulling a face.

You don't want to do pictures of his bald spot anymore.

Those days were then.

And you move on.

And pretty soon the baby was announced.

The baby's been born.

They were so happy, so incredibly happy.

People say that they didn't love each other.

But I don't believe that because that first tour, they couldn't keep their hands off each other.

-[ Crowd chanting ] We want Di!

We want Di!

-And Di they got.

The Princess has always been a crowd pleaser.

-When Diana and Charles went to Australia in '83, William went with them and apparently it'd never happened before.

But Diana wasn't having any of that.

"William goes or I don't go," she says.

As they walk down the plain, The Prince and the Princess, And then the nanny brought the baby down, and Charles held the baby, and Diana held the baby, and it was really lovely.

And that was a wonderful tour, because every now and again we'd get a glimpse of William.

♪♪ Every day they were making pictures.

You know, we couldn't get enough in the paper.

I remember the crowds were so huge.

You know, you couldn't get another person in there, 10, 20 deep places.

No one cared about the Prince.

They only cared about her.

I remember the press secretary in Sydney on a walkabout begged.

He said, "Will someone please go and photograph the Prince?"

I mean, Diana would be walking along that side of the road with 12 photographers and Prince walking down there with nobody.

We said, "I can't send a picture without her in it.

I can't send it.

They won't even print it."

Please, will someone go and do the Prince -- No one did.

You just could not take your eyes off her.

She was amazing.

Like, she would engage with the crowd.

They'd give her flowers, amazing stuff.

♪♪ You could not miss any job she did, even if you just stood on the pavement doing arriving and leaving.

You knew you had to be there.

And, you know, always looking great.

Always had fabulous hair, always looked stunning.

♪♪ I mean, I remember going to Berlin doing a job in Berlin with the Queen and then coming back to Heathrow, and Ann would there with another suitcase and get a flight to -- to Australia.

I mean, you know, it was that sort of, that hectic, and, you know, the editor then he just wanted more and more and more because it was selling the paper.

This job as a -- as a news photographer is tough on families, you know?

as I say, if you've got an understanding, supportive wife, you can be a success at this.

If you want to work hard enough and you've got the talent and you've got the dedication, you can make a great success.

But if you haven't got the support from the house and the home... it's impossible.

-Yeah, it got very, very lonely, especially when he was away.

He used to go to cloisters with the royals when they used to go skiing.

♪♪ On Sandringham, of course, on Christmas Day, when the children weren't allowed their Christmas presents till he got back.

And that was quite a thing, but we got used to it.

-You know, when I ever think about my, my life and my career at The Sun, I know I owe a lot of it to her because she was just the most amazing wife.

I mean, someone who continually sort of supports you like that, knowing, you know, it's your career and you want to succeed and does it without ever complaining, and, you know, it's just made it all worthwhile for me.

There are times when you don't take a picture.

Our editor, Kelvin Mackenzie, was a tough guy who demanded more and more and more.

When they used to go skiing and then William and Harry had gone round the town, they were just boys, and the paparazzi were chasing them all over the place, and I didn't do it.

She stopped and spoke to me and she said, "I just want to say thank you very much for not chasing us around town yesterday.

I really appreciate it."

All of a sudden Kelvin's on the phone.

He was starting to rant.

[ Imitates Kelvin ranting ] Well, I said, "Well, I said, funnily enough Kelvin, I said she's just stopped just now to talk to me and thanked me very much for not chasing her around the town yesterday and made it very pointed that she appreciated it very much."

And you know, that was what she was like.

She realized what you did and she -- she repaid you.

I can tell you the times when I've got pictures because of her remembering those days were just -- were just enormous.

So sometimes it's the picture you didn't take that can be important.

But you don't tell your editor that you didn't take the picture.

Then, of course, we went to India and the big tour in '92, which when -- that was the Taj Mahal.

Well, I can tell you now, an hour before that, I went to the Red Fort with Diana.

Diana said to me, "Where do you want me, Arthur?"

And I said, "I want you just there, ma'am."

And I got the Taj Mahal in the background, her there, folding her arms, looking straight down the camera.

Only photographer there got a great picture.

I loved the picture.

I then get a cab to the Taj Mahal and then the different Diana turned up.

She sits down on the chair and she's this and she's like...

Prince Charles was pilloried for that, for not going there with Diana, but you know, we knew that.

It was in the programmer two weeks before.

Of course, the signs were there.

On Valentine's Day in Jaipur, the polo match.

Diana was going to present the prizes.

Well, every time that happened, they kissed on the lips.

As he got the prize.

They kissed on the lips.

It was always a page-one picture.

And of course, as she went to kiss him, she turned her head.

And that was the picture.

♪♪ ♪♪ One of the questions I always got asked then by news crews was, "Did Diana manipulate the press?"

And I say, "Yes, she did."

You know, she did.

But, you know, we were glad to be manipulated.

It was 17 years... and it almost went like a blur.

[ Camera shutter clicking ] ♪♪ ♪♪ It was about midnight and the phone goes, and it's my son John, who worked on the picture desk at The Sun then.

He said, "Look, dad."

He said, "Diane has had an accident in Paris."

We don't think it's serious, but can you get the first plane to Paris in the morning?

And the next minute there's a broadcast on the BBC saying that Dodi Fayed was dead.

So this time it was getting really serious.

And next minute the phone rings again and it's the picture desk and they're saying, "Go straight to Heathrow.

We've chartered a plane."

So I just grabbed the cameras, passport, and just drove to Heathrow.

We landed at Le Bourget about 4:30 in the morning, French time, and the phone rang and it was picture desk and they said... "Diana's dead.

She's died."

I thought, "Oh, my God."

And I told the rest of the people on the plane and everybody's head sunk.

-I think we can cross now to the -- the newsroom and Tim Willcox.

-Tim Willcox.

Yes, on the line.

-Yes, Nick, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson, has just announced that the Queen has been informed of Princess Diana's death.

The Queen and the Prince of Wales, she said, "...are deeply shocked and distressed by this terrible news."

That is the latest wire to drop on the Press Association.

-Tim, I may -- Tim.

Just to interrupt you.

I may add to that that I'm also reading here that the young princes, William and Harry, were informed of their mother's death by the Prince of Wales.

-That's right, Dermot.

They will have been -- they will have been told, um, at the same time.

That has just dropped on the -- on the wires.

♪♪ -And it was only when Diana's coffin came out of the back of the hospital and I was there, that that overwhelmed me.

And I started to cry because I was thinking of her.

And I think this was the end, you know, this was no longer Diana, no longer the beautiful princess.

She was dead, a woman I'd worked with for 17 years, from that moment when I first saw her at the polo match.

I was just so upset.

I was in tears as I left that hospital.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ That week, I mean, the whole country lost leave of its senses.

Everybody was going to different parts of the country laying flowers and signing the book of condolence.

I mean, there was like a carpet of flowers, almost like a half a mile long up at Kensington Palace.

It was huge.

♪♪ And of course, there were questions asked -- Where's the Queen?

Why is the Buckingham Palace flag not flying at half mast?

All these questions that of course, people thought it was important at the time, but why should we expect the Queen to come and grieve in public?

She was keeping that whole family together up there where there was absolutely floods of tears.

And so I thought it was very unfair, actually, to expect the Queen and the royals to grieve in public.

Halfway through the week, Prince Charles brought the boys down to London... to see the tributes to their mother outside Kensington Palace.

I've never forgotten it, I was there.

It was -- It was unbelievable getting these young men reading these tributes to their mother.

I mean, they were absolutely tearful.

I mean, Harry's face was contorted with, with, with, with pain and tears.

It was so, so, so moving and so sad.

[ Horse hooves clopping ] [ Mourners sobbing ] I can remember it to this day.

As the coffin came round, It was on a horse-drawn gun carriage and I could hear the clip clop of the horses.

It was very quiet.

[ Indistinct murmuring ] All I could hear around me was people sobbing, not crying, sobbing.

[ Mourners sobbing ] [ Woman sobbing ] [ Horse hooves clopping ] And there was a photographer who I'd worked with all my life next to me covered Diana with me.

He was sobbing.

And a woman called out, "God bless you, Harry."

I'll never forget -- "God bless you, Harry."

"God bless you, Harry" -- I mean, he must have had that on the whole of the walk that he did, people saying that.

And it must have had a lasting effect on him.

It was true grief, you know, a woman died far too young.

♪♪ A woman who changed the royals.

I mean, she -- she broke the mold.

When -- When Diana married the Prince of Wales, no one expected that she would absolutely break the mold.

She would hug the babies.

She would hold the hands of lepers.

She took the stigma out of HIV/AIDS.

♪♪ This is a woman who just did it so differently, and she made -- her sons do it same today.

Her two sons have got the same compassion.

♪♪ She always had a little quip.

I remember a photograph.

She went back to the the Young England nursery.

I was driving a Mercedes car then and as usual she looked great and she was very, very chatty.

And she said, "Oh, nice car, Arthur.

Did I buy you that?"

I said -- "No, I think you helped, ma'am," I said.

[ Laughs ] ♪♪ William and Harry will never, ever forget their mother.

She was a great mother.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ William was very, very shy.

He really disliked the attention.

And obviously his school years when he was at Eton, we never bothered him.

He had all those years free to just do his own thing.

And it wasn't just The Sun, every newspaper.

When he went to university, going up there too, when he started at Saint Andrews and he was coming out of this quiet period, he was now realizing who he was and what he wanted to do.

And that's where he met Kate.

When they became an item, we were in Switzerland covering skiing visit.

I think it was just the Prince of Wales and William.

But Kate was there, but we didn't see her the first day when the photo call.

But we saw her the second day on the ski lift with him, and I photographed her at the ski lift, and the palace press secretary went absolutely crazy -- Why are you doing this?

You know, you're supposed to lead an example.

You know, and you're doing it paparazzi.

And I said, "Look, she's a big story here.

You can't not do this.

This -- This woman could end up being his wife.

And that's a news story."

And I remember the editor at the time saying, if this is true, we're running this in the paper tonight, this picture, and we're going to say it's true.

This is -- This is the girlfriend.

And we ran it, and I got banned from the next two engagements.

And we ran a big thing in the paper, you know, the Queen bans Arthur or something.

When William got engaged to Katherine, I did the photo call and the pictures were not exactly spectacular because it was a mass of photographers.

I was in the front row, right in the middle, so I was okay, but a mass of photographers.

and they were trying to accommodate everybody and it was all flash pictures.

And then at the end of it they said, "Would Arthur Edwards come this way?"

And I walked into the room to photograph the ring.

She was so nervous.

Her hand was shaking like that.

I literally had to get William to hold her hands steady like that, so I could get the picture of the ring sharp.

I mean that, Will.

The important position for a photographer covering the royal wedding is the kiss picture on the balcony.

Because that is always the page-one picture.

But I never got that pass.

I got the pass for outside the Abbey.

That was only going to be another picture.

It wasn't going to be the picture that everybody wants to see, which is the page-one picture.

But the pass had gone to another paper.

So about five days before the wedding I rang Prince of Wales's press secretary and I said, "Look, I don't ask for much."

And I said, "And you know, I've worked long at this job and can you get me a pass for inside the palace forecourt?"

And he came back the next day and said, "Right, you're in the palace and you are doing the pictures for Prince William."

I couldn't believe it.

And of course they kissed.

They kissed twice.

I got a sequence of the kiss and their faces like that.

And it's kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss.

Fabulous, you know.

And it was the page-one picture.

♪♪ It was just packed with people all enjoying themselves.

And then -- then the police moved everybody back, and they came out of here.

Drove out of here in Prince Charles's Aston Martin.

It was covered with balloons and the plates said "Just Married."

And it was stuttering, stuttering, stuttering as it was coming out the gates of the palace there because he forgot to take the handbrake off, and it just drove around to Clarence House.

It was a bonus to the end of the day.

A really lovely picture as well.

[ Cheers and applause ] [ Crowd cheering ] [ Indistinct chatter ] Being born into the royal family is no -- is no fun.

You know you have a lot of privilege, but with that privilege comes a lot of duty.

And you know, you're in this electronic goldfish bowl and everybody, all the cameras are watching you all the time.

To this day, William makes sure that his own children do not suffer that.

Katherine has stepped in.

And she's capturing these moments that only mothers see.

She sees when they're really happy and she shares them with us all which makes the pressure off.

No one does that, paparazzi on them anymore.

And that's how it should be now, I think.

You know, for George to grow up as a normal boy, like, play rugby, play sports, just not be aware that he's going to one day have to wear this -- carry this burden of being the monarch.

[ Indistinct conversations ] [ Camera shutter clicking ] Even the last major engagement I did when she was welcoming all these very wealthy people from around the world, and the Queen came in and suddenly everybody stopped talking.

All these great powerful men, I mean, you know, Bill Gates, John Kerry.

Everybody watched their faces because they're nervous.

She was just magnificent.

And all the time you were waiting for that smile.

Sometimes the smile was huge.

Sometimes it was whimsical.

Because when she smiled, that lit up the room because you knew that was the -- that was the best, best, best possible picture you could get of her.

-The Queen and her family clearly enjoyed their day at the races.

-For years she was so animated cheering on her horses.

Certainly when she's got a horse in the last furlong and it's going for the -- going for the line, she can get very, very animated.

And those moments are rare and you've got to be, you know, there to get them.

When you do get them you feel like, you know, you feel like a bell goes in you and a clap of thunder.

You think I've got a great picture.

♪♪ But when I got my M.B.E., well, I was obviously nervous.

And the Queen saw me in the line.

And the equerry said, "It's Arthur next."

And of course, she started smiling and I did my power walk forward, and she pinned the medal on me and she said, "I can't believe I'm giving you this medal."

And I suppose, you know, she was referring back to the late '70s, early '80s when covering the royals was a lot more aggressive, but she was smiling when she said it.

And then I got invited to the equerry's room, which is very unusual, for drinks with my darling wife.

There's me, the Prince, the Duchess and his retinue.

He's introduced me to some amazing people.

Probably the highlight for me was when he introduced me to Pope Francis.

This picture of me at the Vatican shaking hands with Pope Francis was such a shock to me because I was outside waiting to the Pope's arrival and the Prince of Wales's arrival.

And then suddenly the press secretary came out and said, "Look, put your cameras down and follow me."

And the Prince of Wales introduced me to the Holy Father.

And he said... [ Laughter ] -And the Holy Father was quite impressed.

And he's smiling at me as he shakes my hand.

And being a Catholic was quite important to me.

His sole purpose in life is to make life better for others, and he certainly made it better for me.

Prince of Wales, when he was coming up to his 70th birthday, we put a competition in the paper inviting readers who had contributed to their community, people who had worked in food banks, people that cleaned for people, people that were working in the community at 70.

And we got 1,000, over a thousand replies.

And we picked 70, and we had this party.

As he walked into the party, all the -- all the readers and their partners, the 70-year-olds were all on the balcony, all singing "Happy Birthday" to him.

It was very, very moving.

And then he met every member, all of the readers in the room.

There was so much goodwill there.

-I really want to say an enormous thank you to Arthur Edwards.

Arthur, of course, was quite right.

He used to creep about in the undergrowth when I was younger.

[ Laughter ] And it's amazing how life changes.

♪♪ -Over the years, photographing Prince Philip's been difficult.

You know, in spite of his dislike of having his photograph taken, remember the picture with the Royal Air Force veterans when he... [ Laughs ] ...he just was very rude to the photographer.

[ Indistinct chatter ] [ Laughter ] [ Camera shutter clicking ] And even in a state occasion when he was posing with the president of China, you'd only get three, maybe four frames before he'd walk out the picture.

In spite of all that, he was a great person for the country and that, of course, reflected in the pages and pages and pages and pages that were devoted to his great service.

Because the Duke had organized his own funeral, it was assumed he'd organized everything, and therefore this position he'd created at the door never before the doors of the western gates of Saint George's Chapel.

One of the things you had to do, you had to be in there for three hours, and you had to crawl in through this space at the bottom.

It was brilliant.

I was looking through my keyhole, and it was -- it was one of the best, best jobs I've ever done.

And it was -- it was a sad day, but it was a beautiful day.

But then a wonderful life, you know.

A man who gave up his career to serve the Queen and did it brilliantly.

And he knew about duty.

And there was Harry there, walking next to his brother.

And you think to yourself, "Harry, perhaps you should, uh, maybe think a little bit more about the Duke."

The great thing about William and Harry was they -- they were always there for each other, for all their, all their young life have done things together.

[ Camera shutter clicking ] ♪♪ They were just so solid.

And at no time did you ever suspect that would ever change.

[ Indistinct chatter ] -Yeah.

-Oh!

[ Laughter ] -[ Laughs ] Yeah!

[ Clapping ] -You alright?

-[ Laughs ] -I loved working with Harry.

I can't tell you how much.

He was -- He was a joy to work with.

He was always fun.

He would sort of go out of his way to help you get a good picture.

And then he met Meghan, and everything changed.

I mean, he became reclusive.

He wouldn't talk to you.

He wouldn't even say good morning to you.

It wasn't me personally.

It was the media generally that he was angry with.

And it was because he felt that Meghan was getting unfairly treated.

Not just pictures but copy, the copy and the stories in the papers.

Some of which I have to admit were awful and unfair.

And I do feel sorry for her having to put up with that.

But Harry just turned against everybody in the media.

And I think it was Meghan's plan all along.

I think she'd -- She tried it for a year.

She went to the Remembrance Day service, and she was not on the same balcony as the Queen, Camilla and Catherine.

So she knew that she was very well down the pecking order as far as the Royals are concerned.

-They didn't want him to be a prince or princess, not knowing what the gender would be, which would be different from protocol, and that he wasn't going to receive security.

-What?

-It was really hard.

-And if I have to say, if I was absolutely honest, I thought that Oprah Winfrey interview was a little bit unfair.

Yeah, a bit unfair and -- and a bit misleading in places.

I mean, Meghan, I thought, for that first year was like absolutely brilliant.

I mean, she was -- She did every job and went all over the country, all over Ireland, Edinburgh, Wales, Morocco.

They were sensational.

They were just magical.

I thought, "You've got this, love."

You know?

And then suddenly, bang.

They want to go.

Harry was a very important person.

Working for the royal family in this country, he was special.

He was loved and admired because he had this great spirit of getting things done and achieving things.

I mean, even the last job I did with him before he emigrated to America, a school up in Luton, and the kids absolutely were adoring him, all hugging him, and it was just lovely to see.

Unfortunately, he's decided against that now.

One of the fears he has of the British press and the paparazzi.

And yet California is the paparazzi capital of the world, where there are more celebrities than anywhere else in the world.

And he's just another celebrity in a town full of celebrities.

Here he was somebody special.

He was Prince Harry.

What is he doing with his life now, except making films, attacking his family, writing books, attacking his family.

But always I think the door will be open for him.

I always think you never lose the love of your children.

The last picture I took, the memorable picture.

It was a page-one picture actually at The Sun.

It was the Jubilee.

The crowds were huge for her and the adoration.

And she was there for quite a long while, and at the time we didn't really know how seriously ill she was.

And she was fabulous and she was smiling.

And I remember briefly she went just like this one, and it was the page one picture, and the headline was The One Show.

-And it was.

-Tremendous.

Accompanied by a little Prince Louis.

Who actually was a big star himself that day.

But the Queen was a mega star even then, you know, in her 90s.

And I thought, well, I was so pleased to be there.

When the Queen's body was flown back from Scotland to London, I was at Northolt Airport.

And realizing that that was the Queen and she was making her last trip to London, I just wanted to be there when he came to London as the King.

And he was doing his duty like he always does, you know, always doing, getting duty done first, personal feelings later.

It was just... a sad occasion.

[ Footsteps marching slowly, drum beating slowly ] ♪♪ I don't think there are pictures that I would want to sort of look back on because of -- of the sadness.

I saw the king walking behind his mother's coffin.

And his face, I'll never forget the king's face as he would follow his mother.

It was a sad day, but it was the passing of a great woman.

-For most of my career now, you know witness history.

I was there when The Queen Mother died.

I was there for Diana's wedding, Charles's second wedding to Camilla, William's wedding.

I've been over 100 countries, and it's been a great, great career.

♪♪ I think about what I've done and who I've met and what I've seen.

I can't believe it.

♪♪ Like most companies, we have an annual review.

When it comes to the thing, "What is your future plans?"

And for the last ten years I've put, "cover the King's coronation."

Never thinking I was going to do it, but that was my ambition.

And of course I will be witnessing a man I've been covering since 28, when he came out of the Navy.

[ Camera shutter clicking ] And got some great memories because of his kindness to me and his forgiveness of me.

Because, I mean, in the early days, I can't tell you, you know, it wasn't all great.

I mean, there were some moments there when I got the finger poking in the chest.

It's Charles III, and it will be William V, and then George VII.

You know, it's in pretty good shape.

If I laid all my work out, I would probably say, overall, you've done pretty well, you know.

You've got some really great pictures, great expressions.

I still get great enjoyment from seeing them years and years later, and also remembering how I got it, what I had to do to get it.

Someone asked me this morning, "When are you going to retire?"

I said, "Well, I'm only 82.

You know, I'm still quite young and doing the job."

[ Chuckles ] Of course, you know, it's a tough job and sometimes I know it, I feel it, but when I come to put that review thing down, I think, "to make sure the king succeeds in his reign, to help him as much as I possibly can," because he's a fine man.

And I've got so much respect for him and so much respect for his wife and his family.

There you are there, sir, look.

-I've never forgotten.

I remember it so well.

-Do you?

-Yes.

Yes, absolutely.

-Yeah, this was up in the Thames, yeah.

This is me seeing you for the first time in my life.

Yeah, I think you're here.

And this is Anne.

-I've never forgotten.

-It's been an absolute pleasure working with you, sir.

You know, you've been an absolute -- Well, you've been a fantastic man.

And thank you.

[ Camera shutter clicking ] Oh.

[ Camera shutter clicking ] Thank you, sir.

Thank you, ma'am.

I've just filed this stuff anyway.

It's a nice picture of Camilla eating ice cream, and there's a picture of him with some police horses.

Okay my love.

I'll be into the office soon.

I'll be back later.

Bye bye.

-Okay, see you soon.

-God bless.

Bye.

Yes, I think I'll get a picture in the paper tomorrow, which is what I'm here for.

My main role in life is to fill that paper every day.

And I don't want to stop taking pictures of him.

I don't ever want to stop taking pictures.

I'll have to one day when I probably can't walk anymore and not lift the camera anymore.

You know, he's got the job at long last and he's really cracking it.

And I want to record that.

I want to see those pictures in the paper.

♪♪ If you love what you do and you like the people you work with, don't stop.

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