When push comes to shove, the Queen is basically just a really old celebrity, and is prone to diva-like outbursts at times – like when the Queen lost her shit during a photoshoot because Annie Leibovitz wanted her to take her crown off.
According to reports, when famed photographer Annie Leibovitz started ordering the Queen around at a photoshoot recently, the Queen had a spazzy tantrum and stormed off, muttering "I've had enough of dressing like this." And best of all? The Queen's little outburst was filmed for a forthcoming BBC documentary. As well as the photoshoot spaz-attack, the documentary – entitled A Year With The Queen – also captures the Queen's historic visit to The White House earlier this year, along with more candid moments, like the Queen tripping up a poor person with a golden cane and then laughing for an hour, and the Queen refusing to pay her staff until they all crawl on the floor like little dogs.
The royal family is absurd, isn't it? A group of borderline-inbred aristocrats who get to rule the country because of who their parents are and get to judge others on the word they use for 'toilet'. Seriously, if the royal family aren't awkwardly playing basketball with Harlem gang members then they're grabbing girls on the boob and falling over in a stupid hat. But at the head of all this madness is the Queen, steering the royal ship with such old-school dignity that people win Oscars if they act like her.
That was the theory, at least, and we had no reason to doubt that. We saw the warmhearted way that the Queen posed for Rolf Harris and accepted birthday cards from fools. But there's a darker side to the Queen, a side that doesn't like it when people tell her that her clothes are quite flash. During filming for the Queen's new reality TV show, A Year With The Queen, cameras followed the Queen as she was photographed by Anne Leibovitz, the woman who took naked photos of John Lennon and thankfully less naked photos of Tom Cruise. Which is handy, because they were there to capture the Queen going apeshit and storming off in a strop. Sky reports:
A documentary being shot at the time captured the Queen walked into the room wearing her crown and her Order of the Garter robes. Ms Leibovitz… told her: "I think it will look better without the crown because the garter robe is so…" But she photographer could finish saying "extraordinary", the Queen fixed her with an icy stare and shot back: "Less dressy, what do you think this is?", pointing to what she was wearing. The cameras followed the Queen storming off with an official lifting the large train of her blue velvet cape off the floor as the Queen told her lady-in-waiting: "I'm not changing anything. I've had enough dressing like this thank you very much."
Naomi Campbell and Denise Richards and Russell Crowe, kneel down before the new master of acting like a bit of a monstrous arsehole – her majesty the Queen. While it's unknown whether the Queen and Annie Leibovitz ever made up, it's thought that the Queen was so upset by the incident that she couldn't even touch her dinnertime swan and fox casserole that night, and still hasn't removed Leibovitz from her 'people I would behead if I was still allowed to do that sort of thing' list.
Although this outburst may have ensured that the Queen will never get a Diana-style concert after she dies, her confusingly uppity behaviour might have secured her a full series of her reality show, although instead of being called A Year With The Queen, chances are it'll be renamed The Royal Family Do The Most Bizarrely Anachronistic Things.
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Phsyt says
Everything the queen owns belongs to the people anyway since she’s never actually worked a day.
If she’s told to wear a kappa tracksuit, a backwards cap and sunglasses she should do it and not complain about it.
She’s an old lady who’s arrogance and selfishness keeps getting the better of her
Wadey says
The servants in fact live on benefits as they are so badly paid but gays are still begging to work there. Anyway stop attacking the German Royal Family AND TAKE THAT CROWN OFF !
toolahroolahroolah says
Actually, I’m surprised that Annie L. stepped in it like that.
You would think a life of shooting some of the most self-absorbed self important people on the planet would have prevented that blow-up
HRH did have a point.
Caroline says
Since this entire story turned out to be a big, fat lie anyway, don’t you feel a bit stupid now, jumping on the bandwagon to have a go at a granny?
Wadey says
Let’s look on the bright side. It’s pushed the BBC even nearer to being sold off and that can only be good.
Phsyt says
“Since this entire story turned out to be a big, fat lie anyway, don’t you feel a bit stupid now, jumping on the bandwagon to have a go at a granny?”
its a lie that everyone believed only because its so close to the truth… what does that say…?