Bertram Park (1883–1972) enabled Marcus Adams to open his Children’s Studio in London. Park was an up-and-coming society photographer who had met Adams at The Camera Club in London during the First World War.

In 1916 Park opened his own photographic studio in London. He had seen a number of Adams’s portraits, and was impressed with his work. Park wrote to Adams in 1919: ‘If you ever make up your mind to come to London, I would be quite willing to consider a business arrangement with you … I have constantly refused to do portraits of children, and I am being continually asked to. It is a pity that the people I send away should drift along to Speaights and so on.’ Adams was delighted. A year later his Children’s Studio opened.

This was to be the start of a long and successful partnership, with Park concentrating on adult sittings and Adams running his Children’s Studio. Park’s reputation grew, and both British and European royalty were soon visiting his studio to be photographed. The six photographs shown here were taken by Bertram Park between 1922, when Queen Elizabeth was still Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, and 1936, just four days after the accession of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.