Extracting images from iPhone emails

I am a Windows user. And an Android user. My husband has had an iPhone from time to time, and while he got quite conversant working cross-IOS, I found the Apple IOS drove me bat-shit crazy. I know it is probably just what I am used to, but is a bit like the story I tell about the Russian verb dostat (read more here): the degree of difficulty for completing even the simplest of tasks - like saving a photo - goes from possible to impossible for me.

So a friend - also an iPhone user - sent me some photos in an email. No problem, right? Simply save the attachments... right?

Except there are no attachments. The photos are embedded inline, within the email. I can't click on anything, or right-click on anything. There is no helpful pop-up menu to be found. There appears to be no attachments of any kind in the email.  

After a web search, I found a work-around. What I have to do is: 

• (a) save the email as an .html file to my PC. 
• Then (b) I open the .html file in Google Chrome. 
• Then (c) I can right-click on each image in turn, selecting "Open image in new tab", and 
• (d) right-click on each image in their separate tabs, and select "Save image as", wherever I want to save the image to, with the appropriate name. 

What a palaver. 

Why on earth isn't there a "covert email to Windows format" button? It really can't be that this is not a known problem after all these years!

Sam