Remove My Crown??!!

[Dagwood]

I don't think Annie Leibovitz will be invited back anytime soon. From the Daily Mail:

"This is the extraordinary moment the Queen lost her temper and stormed out of a photoshoot, after a celebrity photographer dared ask her to remove her crown.

"The astonishing footage is taken from a new BBC documentary entitled A Year With The Queen and captures the moment when Her Majesty lost her cool.

"During the programme photographer US celebrity snapper Annie Leibovitz sizes up the Queen in her full regalia and ventures: "I think it will look better without the crown, because the garter robe is so..."

"Before the photographer can finish saying "extraordinary", the Queen raises her eyebrows, fixes the snapper with an icy stare, and snaps: "Less dressy? What do you think this is?" pointing to what she is wearing.

"TV cameras follow the Queen storming off with an official lifting the large train of her blue velvet cape off the floor as the Queen tells her lady-in-waiting: "I'm not changing anything. I've had enough dressing like this thank you very much."

 

[Feng_Li]

The comment about the other portrait making the queen look like a vampire is astute...

 

[Edward]

I always suspected the queen has a foul temper! lol

 

[scotrace]

Applause

She should have been angry. Three cheers for Her Majesty!

 

[J.S.Udontknowme]

She should have been angry. Three cheers for Her Majesty!

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Baron Kurtz]

And it turns out . . .

. . . that the BBC had misrepresented the whole situation. They have issued an apology.

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[texasgirl]

Is this the picture? I saw it recently, thought it was beautiful...

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

. . . that the BBC had misrepresented the whole situation. They have issued an apology.

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Yup, apparently the scene in which the Queen appeared to storm out was just the Queen...walking in! [huh]

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I can see why she would be shocked by the "go on, yer Maj, take the craaaan orf" suggestion, and would refuse. But it was wrong of 'em to make out like she stomped out.

Though i can imagine such a pampered individual would be capable of some epic-scale strops.

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[Feng_Li]

Is this the picture? I saw it recently, thought it was beautiful...

I was thinking of this one:

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

But her crown IS off in that picture!

 

[Miss Neecerie]

But her crown IS off in that picture!

and sadly..the cape makes her seem very -napoleonesque- in my opinion....its a dramatic shot...to be sure, but I don't like it all that much.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Crown's off because she's outdoors.

Re: Napoleonic. Maybe she's claiming France as her own? I don't think they've ever stopped wanting to have all that land back.

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[nightandthecity]

apparently they edited the film so that HM 's grumpy arrival looked like her departure in a huff. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book, used for years in film of political demonstrations, strikes etc. e.g. police attack crowd, crowd fight back, film is edited to show the crowd fighting first. I never expected to see this crude device pulled on the Queen though!

Whatever, I don't blame her for being grumpy, good riddance to all "celebrity photographers".

 

[cookie]

Crown's off because she's outdoors.

Re: Napoleonic. Maybe she's claiming France as her own? I don't think they've ever stopped wanting to have all that land back.

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Isn't Leibovitz a NYorker...that may explain the lack of class...

 

[nightandthecity]

......they'd probably like the US back as well. Then they could teach those uppity colonials a bit of deference.

 

[cookie]

......they'd probably like the US back as well. Then they could teach those uppity colonials a bit of deference.

I thought they already had the US? Did I miss a century or 3?

 

[Tomasso]

The Queen was wearing her Order of the Garter robes.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Looks liek a Tiara to me, too, rather than a crown.


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[Feng_Li]

and sadly..the cape makes her seem very -napoleonesque- in my opinion....its a dramatic shot...to be sure, but I don't like it all that much.

Or George Washington, perhaps.