BBC apology to the Queen
Updated on 12 July 2007
The BBC has been forced to apologise to the Queen.
The BBC has been forced to apologise to the Queen after it wrongly implied that she had stormed off in a huff - after a row with the celebrity photographer Annie Liebowitz.
The story made headlines around the world after journalists were shown a trailer for a forthcoming BBC documentary, A Year With The Queen.
But the corporation has admitted the footage had been edited and 'the actual sequence of events was misrepresented'.
The BBC said the trailer had been edited incorrectly when it was shown to journalists at a launch for BBC1's autumn season.
The BBC statement said: "The BBC and RDF Television, the producers of the BBC1 series A Year With The Queen, would like to clarify that the clips shown in a promotional trailer on July 11 were not intended to provide a full picture of what actually happened or what will be shown in the final programme.
"This was an important photoshoot prior to the Queen's visit to the United States. 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.
"The BBC would like to apologise to both the Queen and Annie Leibowitz for any upset this may have caused."
In the footage, the Queen walks into a room in Buckingham Palace, cluttered with camera equipment, wearing her crown and her Order of the Garter robes.
Leibovitz tells her: "I think it will look better without the crown because the garter robe is so..."
But before the photographer can finish saying "extraordinary", the Queen gives her an icy stare and replies: "Less dressy? What do you think this is?", pointing to what she is wearing.
The trailer then cut to a the Queen apparently storming off with an official lifting the large train of her blue velvet cape off the floor.
