..... as corresponded by Janet Malcolm; a rather exceptional essayist on photography*.
In the bow wash of the mutterings about the new portrait of Kate Middelton, here is a tale of an earlier portrait of royalty. Albeit a portrait as a photograph as opposed to a painting copied (somewhat meticulously) from a photograph.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011 ... rentPage=1
* Diana & Nikon - Aperture: ISBN 0-89581-727-9
PS: Gotta love The New Yorker magazine.