It’s a lovely thought, imagining that the Duchess of Cambridge is just like us.
How often do you find yourself schlepping over to a photoshoot in your Range Rover, curlers in your hair and a personal hair stylist in the passenger seat?
At least three times a week, you say.
Today, the June issue of British Vogue hit UK and Irish newsstands (the states will have to wait until May 5th, when we can enjoy the issue with a margarita, like true Americans).
The cover girl’s ten-image story is all anyone can talk about. And though she did not grant a sit-down interview to accompany the spread, she was quoted several times throughout.
Photographer Josh Olins described Catherine as a “natural” on set, adhering to her request that the photos reflect her “private existence” in the Norfolk, England countryside.
When Catherine arrived at the shoot with her stylist, Amanda Cook Tucker, the young royal joked to the crew about “how she must have appeared to anyone who saw her driving in the car in her rollers,” Editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman recalled in the story.
Instead of dramatic ball gowns, tiaras and other priceless jewels, Catherine preferred to be styled in what she usually wears: “jeans, shirts, tshirts,” Shulman wrote.
Catherine allowed makeup artists to prep her for the shoot, a departure from the norm for a woman who did her own makeup on her wedding day.
And though it was a “cold winter’s day,” Shulman revealed that Catherine didn’t complain once, despite often posing in only a “thin, cotton shirt.”
Shulman will forever be remembered for landing the Duchess of Cambridge on her cover, the first editor to do so with Catherine’s participation.
“It’s a huge honour and incredibly exciting for us to have HRH The Duchess of Cambridge featuring on the cover of British Vogue and as part of our centenary issue,” Shulman said when the cover announcement was made.
“For me personally it has been a wonderful experience to have had the opportunity to work with her on this, and I am immensely proud of what we have produced.
“This special issue of the magazine is very close to my heart as it had to reflect on 100 years of British Vogue, and so I am hugely grateful that we have been able to continue with our tradition of outstanding royal portraiture with these pictures.”
Catherine herself is a photography enthusiast, having taken several of her own children’s official photos.
“From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel,” Her Royal Highness told Shulman.
The June 2016 issue of British Vogue hits US newsstands May 5th.
