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Pod Save The King - Royal family news, interviews and fashion

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3.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When Prince Charles posed for portraits during September’s royal visit to France, no one imagined one would be used to announce he was being treated for cancer just a few months later - least of all the photographer. Pod Save the King host Ann Gripper is joined by Samir Hussein, who took that photo - and also took the famous ‘umbrella photo’ of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on their farewell visit as working royals. Samir shares the stories behind those photos, what it was like growing up as his photographer dad Anwar travelled the world with Princess Diana, how he ended up following in his footsteps, how the royal family is changing and what it is really like to work with them. The Princess Diana Exhibition: Accredited Access runs until September 2nd at Dockside Vaults, London. Tickets are available from princessdiana.london and cost from £17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	POD Save the King!
0:06.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the King.
0:09.0	I'm your host Ann Gripper and I'm delighted to be joined by a very special guest today.
0:13.0	He's the reigning royal photographer of the year, the Picture Editor Guild Awards,
0:17.0	I saw when I was looking up.
0:18.0	Sam Hussein, at Sam Hussein went on Instagram.
0:21.0	I'm sure many of our listeners will know.
0:23.0	Samir, it's great to have you with us today.
0:26.0	Thank you, delighted to be here.
0:28.0	And I've asked you to come on or you're available to come on because there's an exhibition running in London over the summer in
0:36.1	collaboration with your dad and your brother so some pretty, well it's the Royal
0:40.2	photographer family, never mind the Royal family, so the Princess Diana exhibition accredited access. Royal Well it was great growing up just to have my dad's experience to be able to be able to be able to call on of course, but yeah, sort of dominates conversation around the dinner table and I think our wives and my mom get a bit sick of it so we have to, you know,
1:09.0	get away from talking about photography and the roles and stuff quite a bit.
1:15.0	But no, it's good. I enjoy it.
1:18.0	You know, I travel a lot with my brother when we go on tour.
1:20.7	So that's really nice. And yeah yeah just having my dad as fast experience to
1:25.2	call on is is great. So when you know when you were little and your dad without
1:30.8	taking amazing pictures of him is very much much the Diana era in the 1980s
1:34.9	and took some of those incredible famous pictures
1:38.0	of her outside the Taj Mahal all alone
1:40.7	and, you know, cuddling children with illnesses or people with
1:46.1	AIDS and this kind of thing. At what stage did you realize that he was doing
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