The Queen once scolded photographer Annie Leibovitz for asking her to remove her tiara
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Queen Elizabeth II once scolded Annie Leibovitz for suggesting she remove her tiara, as seen in the 2007 BBC One documentary "A Year with the Queen."
The Queen was having her photos taken by Leibovitz at Buckingham Palace when the famous photographer asked whether they could remove the tiara so the outfit would look "less dressy."
The Queen replied: "Less dressy? What do you think this is?"
The monarch also said that removing the tiara would mean she would have to go back and tidy her hair in the middle of the shoot.
Queen Elizabeth II once scolded the world-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz for asking her to remove her tiara.
The monarch said that taking off the accessory meant she would have to go back and tidy her hair during the photo shoot at Buckingham Palace.
The exchange, which happened when the Queen was having her photos taken by Leibovitz at Buckingham Palace, was filmed as part of the BBC One documentary, "A Year With the Queen."
"Could we try without the crown?" Leibovitz asked the Queen. "It would look better, less dressy. The garter robe is so ..."
"Less dressy?" the monarch interrupted. "What do you think this is?"
"If you take the tiara off, then we can't put it back on," the Queen's dresser explained.
Leibovitz then suggested the Queen wear the tiara for the first few shots and then remove it for the latter half of the shoot. To this, the Queen replied, "I would have to go back and tidy my hair."
When the clip was first shown to journalists ahead of the documentary's release in 2007, reports falsely suggested that the Queen had stormed out of the photo shoot.
The sequence of clips used in the trailer made it seem as though the Queen had walked away, when in fact the clip used was of her entering the shoot. The BBC later issued an official apology.
"In this trailer there is a sequence that implies that the Queen left a sitting prematurely," a BBC statement said.
"This was not the case and the actual sequence of events was misrepresented.
"The BBC would like to apologise to both the Queen and Annie Leibovitz for any upset this may have caused."
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