The photographer Nick Ut and his lifelong friend Kim Phuc met the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 and, he tells me, they had a very good, in-depth conversation for a full 10 minutes.
Why were they granted such privileged access by our late monarch? Because 50 years ago Ut took a photo of Phuc that has become perhaps the most famous picture of the 20th century.
There are surely very few people on the planet who have not seen the Vietnamese-American photographer’s timeless picture entitled The Terror of War or Napalm Girl.
