When the first official royal portrait of the was unveiled to the public a decade ago, Catherine was typically polite, describing Paul Emsley’s efforts as ‘brilliant, absolutely amazing’.The critics were less kind, however, condemning it as ‘ghastly...rotten... an out-and-out disaster’ in one case. Another remarked, acidly: ‘It’s only saving grace is that it’s not by .’Now, I can disclose that the work has been consigned to a store room at the National Portrait Gallery, even though it’s the London institution’s only solo painting of our future queen. It can be viewed ‘by prior appointment in our archive’.
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