Royal photographer arrested
NZPA-Reuter London
The Royal photographer, Lord Snowdon, was arrested for alleged shoplifting during a recent visit to Moscow, he disclosed. He felt the long arm of the Russian law while browsing alone in a souvenir shop after breakfast. “A heavy uniformed arm dragged me away and I think I was being accused of nicking one of those famous Russian dolls,” he said.
The over-zealous policeman realised his mistake when he found, not a doll, but a pot of Mannite. “I travel with, a pot of Mannite," Lord Snowdon told his surprised audience at a Foyle’s literary luncheon in central London. The police apologised profusely when they realised their mistake and released him, he said. “I have to say that I then made them taste it, but they seemed to prefer caviar,*’ he said.
Lord Snowdon, who was attending the luncheon in honour of his new book of photographs called, “Stills 1984-1987,” admitted that he always seemed to be arrested when he travelled. He was arrested in America for photographing a policeman arresting someone else and in India for photographing a paddy field from the window of an aeroplane. The incident in Moscow occurred when he was there to take pictures of the Bolshoi Ballet
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