Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. After the birth of their son Prince Charles in November 1948, there were to be more royal commissions for Marcus Adams. Prince Charles’s first sitting was on 26 October 1949, when he was taken to The Children’s Studio by Princess Elizabeth. Prince Charles and Princess Anne (born 15 August 1950) became regular visitors to Adams’s studio – their sittings were usually in July or October in order to produce birthday portraits.

At the start of his ‘royal’ career Adams was already over fifty, and by its end, when he was photographing Princess Anne in 1956, he was over eighty. It is unfortunate that he did not live to complete his portfolio of royal portraits by photographing The Queen’s two youngest children, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward. He was the recipient of two Royal Warrants, from Queen Elizabeth in 1938 and from The Queen in 1956, fitting endorsements of his fine work in child photography.