‘Andrew’s aghast eyes echo The Scream’: is this photo the ultimate royal portrait?

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/20/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-arrest-photo-royal-portrait-munch-goya

Posted by nimobo

16 Comments

  1. Ghostly_Wellington on

    I love the way they didn’t correct the red eye. Gives it a crazed look and accentuates the dilated pupil.

  2. The article describes the photo as “incredibly fortuitous” which seems extremely unfair. The guy is a photographer who spends his life trying to take photos like this, and used all of his skills to get this shot. Give him some credit!

  3. Baloney is what it is. A hundred paparazzi snappers sticking cameras in your face after an exhausting day, of course someone is going to get a photo of you looking haggard.

  4. Starting to beleive the guy genuinely did have an adrenaline overdose in the Falklands after seeing this face 😂

  5. Electricbell20 on

    Love how this photo has led the photographer to have a Wikipedia page. Although I do hope he is somewhat of a good guy because I suspect certain groups will already be digging.

  6. Efficient_Sky5173 on

    Oh please. People are reading far too much into a single photo. Prince Andrew probably just reclined his seat to avoid being photographed. Try doing the same yourself and take a selfie: your face won’t look normal either.

    This is just newspapers trying to squeeze cheap clicks and cash out of a picture.

  7. The guy really spent a few hours in a room with a toilet and came out traumatised. What a sheltered, pampered life he had. Zero sympathy from me.

  8. It’s the face of an overly privileged man child, at the age of 66, discovering actions have consequences and his Mummy isn’t around to clean up for him, anymore.

  9. RaymondBumcheese on

    It’s a shame it’s not just passing on state secrets because knowing what he’s *really* done is marring my enjoyment of his ritual humiliation somewhat. 

  10. Meanwhile-in-Paris on

    Reminds me of Weinstein with this sad tennis ball walker. Trying to get empathy by looking like a dishevelled old man.

  11. I think the one of him on all fours over a female while staring at the camera might be the ultimate portrait of a royal, even more so that this new photo is of a former royal.