Mccartney’s guest editor role

Mary Mccartney has said it was her childhood riding horses with her famous family that inspired her photoshoot for a forthcoming issue of National Geographic.

The photographer daughter of Paul Mccartney will serve as a guest editor of the UK magazine to celebrate its 130th anniversary.

She is one of a raft of famous faces to take on the task. Astronaut Tim Peake, naturalist Chris Packham and former model Katie Piper will also lead issues this year, following in the footsteps of previous guest editors Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Dame Ellen Macarthur, Sir Mo Farah and Brian Cox.

Mccartney, 48, said she wanted to include subjects that felt personal to her in the October issue she is guest editing and which will include a photo spread of wild ponies near Snowdonia.

She said: “It’s something that is very personal to me and it takes in the countryside and nature and different perspectives in that horses physically change your perspective when you sit on them.”