It was, we reported, “an occasion for fresh paint and crisp white shirts in the proudly grubby and chaotic world of journalism”. On February 28, 1985, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the Times office in Gray’s Inn Road as a highlight of the newspaper’s bicentenary celebrations. They met staff across the business, from editors, reporters and photographers to the printers and the proprietor, Rupert Murdoch. The day was documented by three photographers at The Times — Harry Kerr, John Manning and Bill Warhurst Jr — and their images capture a bygone era of print journalism. Charles Douglas-Home, right TIMES MEDIATIMES MEDIATo quote our report, it was “only the second time in the 200-year history of this journal that a reigning monarch had crossed the paper’s threshold”.

Source: The Times March 19, 2025 13:10 UTC