Prince Harry, Kate Moss Partied at Glastonbury

The Glastonbury Festival is best known as the place where Kate Moss and other posh British celebrities slosh around in the mud and reacquaint themselves with their grunge roots. But this year's festival had an extra-exciting guest: Prince Harry "slipped in unnoticed," according to the Daily Mail, whose very reliable source (77-year-old festival organizer Michael Eavis, who resembles a friendly garden gnome) invited the young royal to the festival's "wild hardcore dance club," an establishment (i.e. dirty tent) called the Rabbit Hole.

Harry, whose previous nightclub antics include a swimming race against Ryan Lochte in a Vegas pool (ew) and a not-so-private game of strip billiards (amazing), stayed out until 4 a.m. but managed not to do anything unseemly, at least not that anyone noticed. Part of this may have had to do with the presence of his purported girlfriend, Cressida Bonas, who was seen wearing baggy overalls to procure fried food earlier that day.

A "witness" told British tabloid the Sun that Harry "was dancing in a grey trilby and a white T-shirt, with two security guards close by. They just let him get on with it." Also nearby: Kate Moss, who was in a separate area of the VIP "teepee." Meanwhile, Kate Middleton was sleeping peacefully at her parents' house, dreaming of herringbone brown cribs.

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See Artist Alison Jackson's Imagined Portraits of Prince William, Kate Middleton, and the Royal Baby

“I chase people down the street and go up to people in restaurants,” says the London artist Alison Jackson about her endless search for perfect celebrity look-alikes. “And every agency possible, and Facebook and Twitter, and Skype castings.” Since her series Doubletake aired on BBC Two in 2002 and then won a BAFTA, Jackson has become well known in the U.K. for these faux ­tableaux, involving familiar faces of every kind: sports, Hollywood, Angela Merkel. (New York readers may remember her paparazzi-style “first photos!” of Brad and Angelina’s baby in 2006.) She’s exhibited at SFMoMA and the Centre Pompidou, as well as at New York’s International Center of Photography.

Jackson’s work gets right at the nub of our imagined relationship with celebrities: We project surprisingly complex lives onto people we don’t actually know. (You may well come away from these photos considering whether Queen Elizabeth would carry an iPhone.) This series, of course, carries the added frisson of being about a clan that—unlike, say, the Kardashians—would never allow such images to exist. They feel forbidden, illicit, even though the scenes are basically affectionate toward William and Kate and their family. That’s a point Jackson hastens to make: “I’m not going to do anything horrible,” she says. “I don’t really like using ridicule as a form of humor.” The fun, and the effectiveness, comes in the just-at-the-edge-of-plausibility details: the queen with her Times crossword, the prince’s pocket square incongruous over a fresh diaper. Speaking of which: Jackson hedged her bet on the gender of Not Baby Windsor. “I couldn’t tell while I was shooting,” she jokes, adding that she cast an infant who could pass for either a boy or a girl.

*This article originally appeared in the July 8, 2013 issue of New York Magazine.           

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The Prince Harry Look Book

Prince Harry was always bound to be über attractive. As the son of Princess Diana, he was born with good looks and a royal tailor at his beck and call. Often seen in fitted suits, crisp button-downs, or other dapper formal attire, Harry dresses well for the cameras, but wears his prince-wear with a bit more swagger than his brother. Though he's gotten himself into some rather large scrapes, it's the royal's bad-boy attitude and roguish red hair that make him that much more appealing. Click through our look book to see Prince Harry in everything from a military uniform and polo gear to mirrored sunglasses and his first school uniform.

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