April 16, 2021 - 11:23 BST Ainhoa Barcelona Kate Middleton's son Prince Louis has been pictured in his first official portrait with the Queen and Prince Philip that has been released to the public While the Queen and her late husband Prince Philip no doubt have dozens of family photos in their personal albums, this week marked a milestone for one of their great-grandchildren in particular – Prince Louis. Buckingham Palace released a very heartwarming photo of the royal couple with seven of their great-grandkids during a summer holiday in Scotland, and it was the first time little Louis has appeared in an official portrait with the Queen and the late Duke. MORE: The Queen's photo with baby Princess Charlotte has fans saying the same thing The photo was taken by Louis' mum, the Duchess of Cambridge , who is a keen photographer and regularly shares her own personal photos with the public for special occasions such as her children's birthdays. Loading the player... WATCH: HELLO! Insider: what will happen at Prince Philip's funeral The royals were pictured posing at the Queen's Scottish holiday home, Balmoral Castle, on a sofa. Her Majesty sweetly carried baby Prince Louis, who will have been around four months old at the time, on her lap. She also matched in tartan with her great-grandson Prince George, who stood next to her. MORE: The sweet detail missing from the Queen's photo with her great-grandchildren MORE: Prince George and Princess Charlotte's photo with the Queen makes history - here's why This is the first time Prince Louis has starred in an official portrait with the Queen Prince William and Kate's daughter Princess Charlotte took centre stage, waving one hand in the air and also holding onto Louis' hand. Prince Philip meanwhile had his arms around Isla Phillips, who was carrying baby Lena Tindall, and Mia Tindall. Savannah Phillips stood behind … [Read more...] about Kate Middleton’s son Prince Louis stars in first official portrait with the Queen and Prince Philip
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Helen Marden’s Bitter, Lucky Light
Photo: Artwork © Helen Marden. Photo: Robert McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian. Helen Marden spent the pandemic year painting and with family, her life slowed down but not in every way a bad way. “I felt lucky,” she says, “but extremely sad.” Despite her privilege, it’s not as though she wasn’t in the viral crosshairs: She’s almost 80, and her husband of over 50 years, Brice Marden , has been stalked by cancer. A number of her friends died of COVID, including one of her closest, the architect Edward Tuttle , whom she remembers meeting on the Greek island of Hydra back in the 1970s as if it were yesterday. “He was like 27, and I knew I was going to love him” — Helen is confident in her first impressions, as she seems at first to be in most things. “He had an Enter the Dragon T-shirt on and, I think, pearls,” she says. We’re sitting together, masked up and vaxxed up, at Gagosian’s first-floor gallery on Madison (the floors polished black, her hair Warhol white), surrounded by the lacquered tropicality of her paintings, eddies of plume-y pink, yellow, blue, and gleaming white, many shining with seashells, for an exhibition she has called “ Bitter Light a Year. ” Helen Marden and Brice Marden. Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images There is a hard-candy determination in the work and, one suspects, in her. Helen is a fierce and imperious globe-trotting grande dame who has known several generations of pretty much all the accomplished and interesting people worth knowing. They flock to the Mardens’ many homes: the eclectic Greenwich Village townhouse, the place on Nevis in the Caribbean, the one in Marrakech, the mini family compound upstate in Tivoli, the place they’ve had for decades on Hydra. Actually, the two, since they gave the one at the top of the hill (at some point, it was just too many stairs) to their daughters: Melia , the chef, known for the Smile , and Mirabelle, who co-owned for a time the gallery Rivington Arms, where both … [Read more...] about Helen Marden’s Bitter, Lucky Light