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by keith waldegrave
James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 returns from a European publicity tour for the film ‘Goldfinger’ in February 1965. I was a 20 year old trainee at the Kentish Express.
Elaine Gray in mid ocean argument with her official observer Peter Frayne. She gave up shortly after this picture was taken, December 1969.
Fellow journalist and multiple channel swimmer Keith Murphy sets off from Shakespeare Beach, Dover for his 36 hour two way swim. That’s me in the sea behind him with the underwater camera, 1975.
Prince Charles representing the Queen in Papua New Guinea. At the independence celebrations, 1975.
Queen in Vienna 1983
It wasn’t always business class and five star hotels, travelling the world for The Mail on Sunday.
Afghanistan 1989, the Russians are pulling out and we were walking in. A sea of mud for 300 miles.
Doing my best to blend in…
On a mission to find English midwife Sarah Dobson in a biblical landscape. These pictures and the whole of our three week odyssey was never published!
Princess Diana at the Literary Review lunch
Russian top gun! Flying over Moscow in a SU 27…
…in the era of Glasnost and Perestroika. A ride in a ‘Flanker’ @£88 per minute! The Office paid!
Writer Caroline Davis and me with are pilots, March 1993.
Royal family, Buckingham Palace. Looks like they’re having a joke at my expense! Not sure what I did to attract their attention.
