Candid photographs taken of the Royal Family by members of the public are to go on show at Kensington Palace, after nearly 1,000 people entered a competition to see their pictures exhibited alongside Cecil Beaton's.

       A final 50 photographs will be put on display in 'Life Through a Royal Lens', accompanying professional images from the likes of Norman Parkinson and Annie Leibovitz.

       Winning entries include a shot of Diana, Princess of Wales in September 1993 during a visit to a London Methodist Church where she heard about the problems of homelessness.

       Others show the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh on an open top car ride in Stourbridge, Worcestershire in 1957, the Queen Mother holding a posy of flowers during a walkabout at Sandringham in 1989, and the Duke of Cambridge laughing with Sir David Attenborough during a visit to Birkenhead in 2019.

       One amateur, named by Historic Royal Palaces only as "Jonathan from Hastings" said he had photographed the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the Buckingham Palace balcony on their 2011 wedding day.

       "Trying desperately to see them in the crowd, I took this photo which I felt captured the newness & joy of the occasion but also the many times throughout our history this has happened before," he said.

       Life Through a Royal Lens opens at Kensington Palace on March 4.