BBC apologises to Queen over photoshoot

The BBC has apologised to the Queen for wrongly implying that she stormed out of a sitting with world-famous photographer Annie Leibovitz.

It was earlier reported that the makers of a documentary about the Queen had claimed she walked out when she was asked to remove her crown when posing for Leibovitz at Buckingham Palace.

A trailer shown yesterday for the series A Year With The Queen gave the impression that the monarch had abruptly halted the session.

Scenes of the pair clashing over the request were followed by footage of the Queen walking down a corridor and telling her lady-in-waiting: "I'm not changing anything. I've had enough dressing like this, thank you very much."

But the footage was actually filmed as the Queen made her way to the sitting dressed in her crown and her Order of the Garter robes.

The BBC said: "In this trailer there is a sequence that implies that the Queen left a sitting prematurely. This was not the case and the actual sequence of events was mis-represented."

It added: "The BBC would like to apologise to both the Queen and Annie Leibovitz for any upset this may have caused."

Leibovitz is famous for her quirky shots of celebrities in magazines such as Rolling Stone and Vanity fair. She once had Kate Winslet repeatedly dunked in a tank of water, snapped Whoopi Goldberg in a bath of milk and photographed Clint Eastwood after he had been tied up with ropes.

Her other famous images include a nude John Lennon cuddling a clothed Yoko Ono, and Hollywood actress Demi Moore naked and heavily pregnant.

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