The Nationwide Portrait Gallery has mentioned it will not put up an image of Prince Harry and Meghan that it acquired earlier this 12 months.
The black and white picture by photographer Misan Harriman – a buddy of the Sussexes – was taken when the couple attended the opening of the One Younger World summit in Manchester two years in the past, after they dramatically give up royal life and moved to California.
However final evening a spokesman for the gallery, whose patron is the Princess of Wales, mentioned: ‘The portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was acquired for the Gallery’s images assortment in Could 2024.
Following cataloguing and its digitisation, the portrait was added to our web site firstly of this month. There are not any present plans to show the portrait within the gallery.’
The Nationwide Portrait Gallery has mentioned it will not put up an image of Harry and Meghan, simply months after buying it
A spokesperson for the gallery mentioned that the image was added to its web site however that there have been no plans to place it on show (file photograph)
Though the Princess of Wales is the gallery’s patron, she has no say over which portraits are added to the gallery’s assortment
It comes after The Mail on Sunday revealed that the Royal Assortment has no images of Meghan in its huge archives of greater than one million objects.
Mr Harriman is a globally celebrated superstar and social photographer who turned the primary black man to shoot a canopy of British Vogue within the journal’s 104-year historical past.
The Nationwide Portrait Gallery holds one of many world’s best assortment of portraits, however its patron Kate has no say over that are added to the gathering.
There have been rumours final 12 months that the Princess was secretly happy when a controversial portrait of her, painted by artist Paul Emsley, was faraway from public view.
