Britain’s Queen Elizabeth lost her temper with photographer Annie Leibovitz and stormed out of their photo session.
The incident was caught on film and features in BBC1 documentary ‘A Year With The Queen’ following the queen as she prepared for her 80th birthday to be screened in the autumn.
Leibovitz tells the queen she thinks the portrait photograph will look better without her crown, to which the queen snaps: ‘Less dressy? What do you think this is? I’m not changing anything.’ Her Majesty then walks out.
The 81-year-old monarch does return to sit for the celebrity photographer, but is also shown telling her: ‘I’ve had enough of dressing like this, thank you very much.’ Leibovitz’s final portrait photograph feature the monarch sitting on a gilt chair in Buckingham Palace’s White Drawing Room, wearing a crown, ornate jewellery and a lavish white gown with a white fur stole.
Royal photographer Arthur Edwards for Britain’s The Sun newspaper believes Leibovitz pushed the queen too far.
He told BBC Radio Five Live: ‘I think Annie Leibovitz went over the mark.
‘Every photographer just asks for one more ‘can we do this, can we do that?’ but the queen wasn’t having it, and when she was asked to take off her tiara she threw a tantrum. ‘It was great to see the queen can get into a strop.
‘Prince Charles has given me a couple of rollickings over the time, and now I know where he gets it from.’ The BBC documentary shows the queen and other members of the royal family performing their royal duties. It includes the queen’s 80th birthday celebrations, the British State Opening of Parliament, and the queen and her husband Prince Phillip’s recent US tour. BBC1 controller Peter Fincham said the broadcasting corporation were given ‘remarkable access’ to the royal family for the show.
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