What it’s really like to travel with Kate Middleton and Prince William

During the Platinum Jubilee celebrating Queen Elizabeth and her 70-year reign earlier this month

photographer Tim Rooke faced a challenging dilemma. He had his camera trained at the Buckingham Palace balcony

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taking snapshots of Prince Louis as he made all of the faces on the emoji keyboard, becoming a viral star of the bank holiday weekend.

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But Rooke, the Royal Photographer for Rex by Shutterstock, couldn’t catch them all.

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“For us it’s far more interesting when the children are there,” Rooke explained in a recent interview.

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“I did miss a few. It was quite difficult. He made some great expressions, but the problem is that you’re obviously not just there to photograph him.

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So you’re also looking at the Prince of Wales, and so on, and when you look at somebody else, it’s inevitable you end up missing other pictures.

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That struggle works as a metaphor for the royal photographers’ jobs overall.

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Ever since 1991, Rooke has been a full-time royal photographer, giving him unique insight into the personalities of the royals and their day-to-day lives.

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He noted that the royals and the photographers who follow them have a “symbiotic” and good-natured relationship.

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