His pictures of Queen Elizabeth II have become in a few days the most famous in the world: photographer of the Press Association, Jane Barlow had the privilege, at the beginning of the week, to be chosen for immortalize the first meeting between Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister and the Sovereign. Without knowing that her photos would be the last: two days later, the nonagenarian died suddenly on Thursday, surrounded by her children and in particular the one who immediately succeeded her under the name of Charles III.
And these shots, Jane Barlow agreed to discuss them in an interview with the British media. Without saying too much about her meeting with the legendary Elizabeth, she evoked these two images. “I was sent to Balmoral to photograph the meeting between the Queen and the Prime Minister but for me, the best photo is the one where Elizabeth II poses alone“ she explained, referring to the photograph where we can see Elizabeth II in a plaid skirt, glasses on her nose, alone in one of the living rooms, surely before the third Prime Minister in British history arrived.