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BBC apologises to Queen over photo shoot
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-13 09:50
The BBC has apologised to the Queen for wrongly implying that she had
stormed out of a photo shoot with American photographer Annie Leibovitz.
The broadcaster blamed a production company for sending it clips edited
out of sequence which implied the monarch had lost her temper when asked
to remove her crown. The footage should never have been shown, the BBC
said.
The story became headline news after a promotional trailer for a BBC
documentary A year with the Queen, due to be aired later this year, was
shown to journalists.
"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 misrepresented," the corporation said in a statement.
"The BBC would like to apologise to both the Queen and Annie Leibovitz
for any upset this may have caused."
The flap was a further embarrassment for Britain's venerable public
broadcaster days after it was ordered to pay an unprecedented
￡50,000-pound fine for faking a phone-in contest on the 50-year-old
children's show Blue Peter.
The BBC is funded by a tax on televisions and its reputation for quality
and fairness is highly sensitive.
The Queen, being filmed for the behind-the-scenes documentary, was
depicted as apparently having flounced out of a room at Buckingham Palace
with an aide carrying her robes.
The trailer showed Leibovitz asking the monarch, who had worn her crown
and formal robes for the sitting, to remove her crown. The Queen gave her
an icy stare and replied: "Less dressy, what do you think this is?",
pointing to her outfit.
The footage that followed showed the queen walking briskly down a
corridor, telling her staff: "I'm not changing anything. I've had enough
dressing like this thank you very much."
The footage which appeared to show her storming out was actually filmed
earlier as she made her way to the sitting.
A BBC spokeswoman later blamed the production company, RDF Media Group
for supplying the footage out of sequence.
"At the time of the press conference yesterday, the controller of BBC One
was not aware that those clips had been edited out of sequence. They were
supplied in that sequence to the BBC by the independent production
company making the film. So in good faith we actually thought that was
the sequence."
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