Actually I disagree totally with Sir Roy Strong. He is critical of Norman Parkinson’s triptych of the Queen, her mother, and her sister which I think combined both the power and human-scale of the monarchy appropriately.

Cecil Beaton’s classic photograph of the early monarch is also a more pleasing image. Rankin’s image says more about Rankin than the Queen.

Stephen BRAY

P.S. I have looked at your web-site. I suspect that the College of Arms hasn’t approved the ‘device’ you have posted there, and if this is the case they would be within their rights in asking that you remove it.

Bless you. You have made a good point in drawing attention that Annie Leibovitz and The Queen deplore the misrepresentation of this photoshoot.

Personally, I think Ms. Leibovitz images are far too theatrical and dramatic. They are not representative of either Elizabeth, or the Monarch, however, technically they are difficult to fault.

Stephen

Neil Burgess, the founder of NB Pictures, said he was already ‘pretty angry’ at the portrayal of Liebovitz as depicted in the trailer for the upcoming documentary.

However, he told Amateur Photographer magazine that his fury was further intensified by subsequent newspaper coverage of the furore.

Though Leibovitz has so far maintained a ‘dignified silence’ on the matter, Burgess, the UK representative of the American’s picture agency Contact Press Images, told us: ‘I was pretty angry about Annie being slagged off, but mostly about the state of our press where this so-called story made the front page of the Sun [yesterday] and the Daily Mail [today].’

The Mail focused on the BBC’s apology to The Queen.

Burgess also condemned makers of such TV programmes for appearing to treat the recording of history as ‘some sort of game show’.

The BBC and production company RDF are understood to have apologised to both The Queen and Annie Leibovitz for the editing blunder.

As we reported earlier, BBC One’s controller said he has no plans to resign over the matter.

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