By then, Parkinson, at the top of his game for 25 years, had been living with his wife and muse Wenda in the tranquillity of tropical Tobago in a house of their own design, built in 1963. Palm trees were inescapable and would feature, despite remonstrations from on high, in pictures taken on the island, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Tahiti, and the Seychelles, not least because he would use souvenir tourist postcards as prompts for locations. Many of them, alongside his striking royal portraits and Vogue covers, are published this month in a new collection. “He was a remarkable man, really, relentless in his pursuit of fresh, strong images,” recalled fashion editor Grace Coddington, his accomplice on many of these trips.
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