The BBC would like to apologise to both the Queen and Annie Leibovitz for any upset this may have caused.    - BBC statement The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has apologised to Queen Elizabeth II and photographer, Annie Leibovitz, after a trailer for a documentary suggested she had walked out of a portrait sitting when the photographer asked her to remove her crown. The trailer shows a clip of the photographer telling the Queen, "I think it will look better without the crown because the garter robe is so..."
Queen Elizabeth II is the head of the Commonwealth.