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BBC apologises over Queen clips

Thu Jul 12 11:20:43 UTC 2007

BBC apologises over Queen clips

Thu Jul 12 11:30:26 UTC 2007
The BBC has apologised to the Queen after clips implied Her Majesty walked out of a photography session with Annie Leibovitz during a documentary.The BBC has apologised to the Queen after clips implied she walked out of a photography session with Annie Leibovitz during a documentary.
"In this trailer there is a sequence that implies that the Queen left a sitting prematurely," the BBC said.The Queen had an altercation with Leibovitz over whether she should wear her tiara or not but the programme's trailer suggested she walked out.
"This was not the case and the actual sequence of events was mis-represented," the statement added.The BBC said in a statement: "This was not the case and the actual sequence of events was mis-represented."
"The BBC would like to apologise to both the Queen and Annie Leibovitz for any upset this may have caused".The documentary, A Year With The Queen, will be shown later this year.
"The BBC would like to apologise to both the Queen and Annie Leibovitz for any upset this may have caused", the corporation's statement continued.
Photographer Annie Leibovitz is seen in the trailer telling the Queen she will look better without her tiara because "the Garter robe is so..."
Before she can say "extraordinary", the Queen replies, pointing to what she is wearing: "Less dressy. What do you think this is?"
The clip then cut to the Queen walking through a Palace room immediately afterwards, implying she had stormed off from the portrait session.