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Taking last public photos of the Queen was 'an honour
and privilege'
By Caroline
Lowbridge & PA news agency
BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-62877095
Published
6 days ago
Jane Barlow
captured this portrait of the Queen as she waited for the new prime minister
Photographing
the Queen was "an honour and a privilege", according to the
photographer who took the last public photos of her.
PA Media
photographer Jane Barlow captured the Queen meeting new Prime Minister Liz
Truss on Tuesday, two days before she died.
Ms Barlow,
who is from Belper in Derbyshire, has photographed the Queen on several
occasions.
She said
the Queen was "very smiley" as they spoke before Ms Truss arrived.
The Queen
apparently talked about the weather and how dark it was, and was
"frail" but in "good spirits".
Ms Barlow
has worked for PA Media in Scotland for six years
"I was
there to photograph her meeting the new prime minister but for me the best
picture was the one of the Queen on her own. And it has obviously become more
significant now," said Ms Barlow, who previously worked for the Derby
Telegraph newspaper.
"I've
had so many lovely comments about the picture.
"It's
a real privilege to be able to take that picture, an honour and a privilege.
It's like that for a lot of our job."
"She
certainly did look more frail than when I photographed her in the summer,"
Ms Barlow said.
"When
she came up for Holyrood Week, at the time they were telling me she would do
one, perhaps two engagements, but she did quite a lot that week."
That week
saw Ms Barlow photograph the Queen as she had audiences with Nicola Sturgeon
and Holyrood Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone, and as she took part in a
number of official engagements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8xwqi_9GDs
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