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The The The My castaway this week is the Royal photographer Arthur Edwards. He's the Sun Snapper who's become a Fleet Street legend.

For more than 30 years, his work has helped to document and define the extraordinary changes

within our monarchy, capturing some of the most memorable moments of the House of Windsor.

From a hesitant teenage Diana pictured in a sea-through summer skirt to the full throttle

splendour of the hands with Nelson Mandela and met the Pope. It's a life far removed from his

background in the east end of London where money was tight and the war loomed

large. Yet being a royal photographer wasn't something he'd hankred after.

When the editor Larry Lamb told him he'd got it, his first thought was,

what a rotten job. Really, you didn't want it, Arthur.

Didn't want it now. I was enjoying myself doing the cricket and football and

general news and where do you start when they say you know find the next

who's going to be the next queen of England Prince Charles said 30 was a good time

to get married and he was now 28 and I just

went to polo matches one polo match after another and and the steady stream of

girlfriends followed and eventually found Princess Diana, Lady Diana.

Was it at a polo match?

They were a polo match and someone said he's here with a lady called Lady Diana Spencer and I walked round this polo field until I saw this girl and she

were in a D necklace and I thought that's her so I said excuse me are you Lady

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