Behind the Scenes With Royal Reporters

In 2015, during a royal tour of New Zealand, Prince Harry dipped his hand in bright purple paint in order to leave his imprint on the wall of a South Auckland youth center, but instead ran up to The Sun’s veteran royal photographer Arthur Edwards, who was covering the event, and plopped his palm right on top of his head. It was a typical playful move of the prince back then and even shared by Kensington Palace’s official Twitter, with the caption “Prince Harry plonks a purple handprint on @arthurjedwards’s head.” While Prince Harry has understandably long been wary of the British press in the years following his mother Princess Diana’s death and no doubt the publication of the naked Vegas picture, he was known to often have a friendly rapport with reporters and photographers during tours and events, especially when it came to promoting his charities. That even included at times making cups of tea for them during tours and taking them to the pub at the end, sometimes picking up the tab, according to Edwards. Katie Nicholl, Vanity Fair’s royal editor, also recalled a time when she was at the Mail on Sunday newspaper and Harry appealed directly to her to

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