Beaton book casts a spotlight on stars’ flaws

Mick Jagger "could be a eunuch", one half of Grace Kelly’s face was "like a bull calf" and Elizabeth Taylor was vulgar and unladylike.

These are among the not-so-flattering portraits of famous people photographed by the equally famous Cecil Beaton whose views on stars from Julie Andrews to Marilyn Monroe have been revealed in a new book.

Combining his private diaries with iconic photographs of the stars he photographed, the book offers Beaton’s brutally honest vignettes of his subjects.