A rediscovered video shows the Queen having a tense encounter with world-famous picture photographer Annie Leibovitz.
The Queen is sitting for a photo in the video, which has been seen over 400,000 times since it was posted on TikTok by the account @brittoker on Sunday (April 3).

“I believe it will look better without the crown,” Leibovitz adds in the edited film.

“It will look better, less fancy,” Leibovitz remarks in another footage from the 2007 session, which shows the American photographer conversing with The Queen.

The Queen, who wears a magnificent fur cloak and wields a sceptre, chuckles and says: “Less formal! What do you make of this?”

Unfortunately, the video was altered to make it appear as if The Queen rushed out of the room with two maids, which did not occur.

The Queen had been “storming into” the room and was “nervous” about the photograph, as Leibovitz subsequently revealed.

The cold conversation startled TikTok viewers, and many thought The Queen should not have been ordered to remove her crown.

“Yeah… you don’t ask the queen to take off her crown,” one added.

“Who asks the queen to remove the crown?” another joked. Off the tower, I believe.”

“Where is your procedure when speaking to the queen?” a third enraged viewer said.

“That was either bold or ignorant,” someone else commented. I don’t know which!”

Another person defended the photographer, saying, “I mean, Annie Leibovitz is well renowned for her stripped-back approach, strange choice for a royal image.”

“I believe she was gutsy to inquire!”

Leibovitz supported The Queen at a talk at her photographic show at the National Portrait Gallery in 2008.

“We were all quite nervous,” she said.

“The Queen came down the hall and she looked a little perturbed. I knew something was up.

“All her dressers were about 20ft away. No one was near her.

“She was coming down the hall very purposefully. As she came in she said, ‘I don’t have much time.'”