Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet Shakerley is an English photographer.
He is the son of Sir Cyril Holland Shakerley, 5th Baronet and Elizabeth Averil Eardley-Wilmot.
Shakerley photographed the wedding of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie Rhys-Jones, where it was later admitted that Prince William's face was digitally enhanced by taking a happier smile from another photograph and placing it on some of the released shots to the press.[1][2] Shakerley also admitted in time-honoured tradition to have used telephone directories to adjust the height of some wedding guests in his shots.[3]
He married his first wife, the actress Virginia Maskell in 1962; the couple had two children, born in 1963 and 1966. After the birth of their second son, Maskell suffered and was treated for post natal depression, and on her doctors orders spent six weeks in Stoke Mandeville Hospital in late 1967. She was released for Christmas, but in January 1968 she took an overdose of antidepressants and barbiturates, and although revived died the following day.
On 27 July 1972, Shakerley married Lady Elizabeth Anson,[4] daughter of Thomas, Viscount Anson, and Princess Anne of Denmark,[5] and sister of society fashion photographer Patrick Lichfield in Westminster Abbey. The Princess Anne was one of the bridesmaids.[6] The couple have one daughter, Fiona Elizabeth Fenella Shakerley (b. 1973).