The Queen and the BBC.?

Question

Is it just me who thinks its shocking how that BBC man was forced to resign apparently due to lying about how the Queen reacted in a photo shoot. You just had to look at the video footage to see she was in a bad mood, and it even showed her walking off in a strop (you could tell from her body language). Who the heck does the Queen think she is to force a man at the top of his career to do this - to protect her reputation. I tell you, these Royals think they can get away with murder - talking about murder have you all been watching the case on Diana....

Answer 1

First off, The Queen knows who she is. She is The Queen.

Secondly, let's get factual - which is exactly why the man lost his job at the BBC.

The footage of The Queen walking down the corridor of the Palace was cut into the story to make it look like she walked out of the photo session. Both the photographer, Annie Lennox and the BBC said that wasn't the case. The BBC apologized to Her Majesty for the implication.

The Queen did not walk out of the photo session. She posed as she was asked and when it was over she was filmed walking down the corridor. The Queen is not an overly smiley person, and at the end of a long day when she has stood around smiling for cameras and public appearances she lets her face rest, so doesn't necessarily smile in her private moments. She wasn't talking to anyone, she was walking. And walking while wearing a very heavy robe. She's a grandmother, in her 80s, and it was the end of the day, she has a right not to be smiling.

So the man lost his job because he allowed an inaccurate - actually, a totally wrong story - to circulate about The Queen. It not only embarrassed Her Majesty, more importantly it brings into the question the accuracy of BBC journalistic standards. That's why he's unemployed today. If you can't manage to get a simple story about a photo shoot right, how can the public trust your reporting on politics or war or other important topics?

Answer 2

Bit petty if you ask me. Over a reaction? Royals seem like they're from another planet if you ask me.

Answer 3

Unfortunately for him, she thinks she is The Queen.

Answer 4

shes a stuck up cow bag...

Answer 5

Murder? Diana? Try drunk driver who got paid by paps to give them information, then got distracted in an over weight (armored) car, and crashed.

This c**p has one on long enough, and by the way I think the BBC guy got the sack because the beeb had also been charging kids for phone in votes then just ignoring the result, that's theft....

Answer 6

IF the BBC do not show any respect for the Head of State, they are surely not going to show the rest of us, any respect either.

The issue, is not that the Queen stormed out, but that the editing of the material made it seem as if she had. As you say, you were misled by this trick, and it was only when the matter was investigated that the falsity was shown.

WE ought to be able to believe what we see on TV, and not be misled by the broadcasters. Anyone so deceitful is not fit to be working in our national media organisation. WE certainly do not need "spindoctors" in the BBC.

One does wonder exactly "why" they tried this crude trick, oher than to bring our royalty into disrepute.

In answer to your final query, I guess that the Queen thinks that she is the Queen.

Answer 7

i remember a documentary i watched about her some years ago when she was explaining to some children that a corgi was named dash after what you say when you are cross, i thought what planet does she live on, has anyone ever heard anybody say dash when annoyed?