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Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, Sixth Baronet Shakerley is an English photographer

The son of Sir Cyril Holland Shakerley, 5th Baronet and Elizabeth Averil Eardley-Wilmot


He photographed the wedding on Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie Rhys-Jones, where it was later admitted that digitally Prince William's face was enhanced by taking a happier smile form another photograph and placing it on some of the released shots to the press[1][2]. Shakerley also admitted in time honoured tradition to have used telephone directories to adjust the height of some wedding guests in his shots[3]

[edit] Personal life

He married his first wife, the actress Virginia Maskell in 1962. They had two children, Nicholas (born 1963) and (born 1966). After the birth of their second son, Maskell suffered and was treated for post natal depression, and on her doctors orders spent six weeks in Stoke Mandeville Hospital in late 1967. She was realesed for Christmas, but on January 1968 she took and over dose of antidepressents and barbiturates, and although revived died the following day

On 27 July 1972 Shakerley married Lady Elizabeth Anson[4], sister of society fashion photgrapher Patrick Litchfield in Westminster Abbey. Princess Anne was one of the bridesmaids[5].

The marriage took place 22 May, 2004, in Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire, of Mr E. Brocas Burrows, sn of Mr & Mrs Richard Burrows, & Fiona Elizabeth Fenella Shakerley (b. 1973), only dau of Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet, and Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Anson, daughter of Thomas, Viscount Anson, and the late Princess Georg of Denmark, & sister of the 5th Earl of Lichfield[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/374584.stm
  2. ^ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990622/ai_n14220703
  3. ^ http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/06/22/lilith/index.html
  4. ^ http://worldroots.com/brigitte/famous/m02/maryenglanddesc1496-103.htm
  5. ^ http://www.party-planners.co.uk/wealthle.asp
  6. ^ http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/j12004.html