Guitarist reveals passion for Queen Victoria’s snapper, George Washington Wilson, in biography
Armed with a book instead of a guitar, Brian May, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock group Queen, is heading into unknown territory at the Edinburgh book festival to launch a lavishly illustrated biography of the Victorian Scottish photographer George Washington Wilson.
Wilson, now almost forgotten, was a star of his day and after recording the construction of a new castle for Victoria and Albert at Balmoral - his startling images show the glaringly bright brand-new building - became the Queen’s official photographer in Scotland.
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