Prince Charles Photos: Royal Photographer Shares Favorite Moments With Future King

Royal photographer Arthur Edwards has taken many photos of Prince Charles throughout the past 42 years.

Edwards started taking photographs of the heir to the throne in 1976, and he has also covered more than 120 royal visits for Britain’s favorite newspapers. Last week, the prince threw a huge sun party at the Spencer House for 70 readers that turned the same age as him. While there, Prince Charles gave Edwards a shout out.

“Our overseas visits would never be the same without Arthur. I get more and more worried because he is more advanced than we are. I’m worried about the number of cameras and bits of equipment he carries in hot countries. He’s a very good photographer and a jolly good bloke – a very special person,” he said (via The Telegraph).

In turn, Edwards revealed his favorite snaps of Prince Charles starting off with the one he took in 1980 during the future King’s ski trip. The snap shows Prince Charles wearing a fake nose and mustache.

“Charles laughed out loud at this picture. We had spotted him skiing down a slope wearing a false nose, funny glasses, and a fake mustache, pretending he was someone’s, Uncle Harry. So all the photographers went out and bought masks and comic noses, and he posed for a picture with us,” he told The Sun.

In the same year, Edwards took a photo of Prince Charles meets some farmers in India. In the snap, Prince William and Prince Harry’s dad tried plowing. And during his trip to Switzerland in the same year, Prince Charles was photographed flying face-down on a sled.

Edwards also chose a photo of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall taken during their visit to a school.

“I took this lovely picture at a school where they signed the visitor’s book – but Camilla wouldn’t give Charles his pen back. When I photographed it, I just went straight off and wired it because it was such a good snap. The Duchess laughed when I told her that,” he said.