Reuters photojournalist Phil Noble staked out police station for hours, just catching ex-prince as he sped off
For more than 10 hours after the news broke that detectives had taken the unprecedented step to arrest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, there was total silence from police and the former prince himself.
Then at 7pm, news that he had been released from a police station in Norfolk emerged, accompanied by a paparazzi-style image of the former prince slumped in the back of a car. The image landed on front pages across the globe.
Phil Noble is a photojournalist for Reuters and took the picture that will undoubtedly be talked about and reproduced for years to come. “The photo gods were on my side,” he said on Friday, describing it as “a little bit surreal”.
“It was one of those kind of ‘pinch me’ moments where you look at the back of the camera, you’re tired, it’s been a long day, you know you’ve got him. And then I said to my colleague: ‘Can you just double check? Is this him?’ Because you want to make sure. You can’t believe that you’ve got him as well as I did.”
