Prince Louis photographer who took memorable snap of younger royal nominated for prestigious award

Aug 19, 2023 at 11:39 AM
Prince Louis photographer who took memorable snap of younger royal nominated for prestigious award

A photographer who captured the second Prince Louis comically lined his ears on the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has been shortlisted for an award.

Images of the younger royal, 5, delighted the general public because the flypast to kick off the jubilee celebrations proved to be a bit too loud for him.

Aaron Chown, of the PA news company, captured the second, in June 2022, and others that confirmed Louis in a sailor go well with, masking his eyes, placing his fingers in his mouth and looking out up on the planes from the Buckingham Palace balcony.

Mr Chown is amongst three individuals nominated for Royal Photographer of the Year on the annual UK Picture Editors Guild Awards.

Prince Louis reacts on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, while viewing the Platinum Jubilee flypast, on day one of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Picture date: Thursday June 2, 2022.
The Duchess of Cambridge speaks to prince Louis as he pulls a face on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, to view the Platinum Jubilee flypast, on day one of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Picture date: Thursday June 2, 2022.
Prince Louis on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, to view the Platinum Jubilee flypast, on day one of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Picture date: Thursday June 2, 2022.

PA photographer Jane Barlow, who took one of many final public photos of the late Queen, has been shortlisted for Arts and Entertainment Photographer of the Year.

The {photograph} of the late monarch smiling beside a fire at Balmoral earlier than assembly then prime minister Liz Truss on 6 September, simply two days earlier than the Queen died, has change into recognisable to hundreds of thousands.

Queen Elizabeth II welcomes Liz Truss during an audience at Balmoral, Scotland, where she invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative party to become Prime Minister and form a new government. Picture date: Tuesday September 6, 2022.
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The late Queen and Liz Truss in September 2022

Similar poses greater than a 12 months on

Although greater than a 12 months has handed, nothing appears to have modified for Louis, who was noticed pulling an analogous facial features in July.

Attending the Royal International Air Tattoo together with his dad and mom, the Prince and Princess of Wales and his siblings, George, 10, and Charlotte, eight, Louis appeared stressed, earlier than masking his ears as an plane flew overhead.

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Prince Louis visits navy air present

Louis additionally stole the show at Trooping the Colour, which marked the King’s first official birthday as monarch.

A giant wave, holding his nostril and punching each fists into the air had been among the many cheeky gestures that the younger prince pulled throughout the royal event in June.

Trooping the colour
Trooping the Colour

Photographers from The Times, the Daily Telegraph, Getty Images, the Yorkshire Post, Reuters, AFP, and freelancers Jeff Moore, Ryan Jenkinson and Samir Hussein are additionally amongst these nominated at this 12 months’s UK Picture Editors Guild Awards.

The ceremony will probably be held in London on 16 October.