mercoledì 21 settembre 2022

Queen Elizabeth meets the stars

Actor Raquel Welch shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth in March 1966.

Queen Elizabeth meets the stars – in pictures

When stars align: the Queen has had celebrities, from Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe to Paul McCartney and Frank Sinatra, queuing up to meet her throughout her reign

Saturday 17 September 2022

The Queen receiving Carol Ann Duffy at Buckingham Palace shortly
after Duffy became the poet laureate in 2009.

Queen Elizabeth talks to actor Joan Collins during the Dramatic Arts reception at Buckingham Palace,
February 2014

Elizabeth meets Hollywood actor Marilyn Monroe Miller, standing next to Victor Mature,
during the Royal Film Performance, October 1956

Paul McCartney gives a thumbs up to music students after they played for the Queen during her tour of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, June 1996

Photograph: Collier Bob Collier

Singer Lady Gaga meets the Queen as the dance group Diversity watch, following the Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool, December 2009

Photograph: Leon Neal

US actor Meryl Streep meeting Queen Elizabeth after a Royal Film Performance of Kramer vs Kramer at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, March 1980

Photograph: Graham Turner

At Buckingham Palace during a banquet held in his honour, US President John F Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline pose with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, June 1961

Photograph: Bettmann

Queen Elizabeth meets Elizabeth Taylor and husband John Warner at a gala dinner in Washington DC, US, July 1976

Photograph: Anwar Hussein

US actor Angelina Jolie is presented with the Insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George by Queen Elizabeth in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace. Jolie was awarded an honorary damehood for services to UK foreign policy and the campaign to end war zone sexual violence, October 2014

Photograph: Anthony Devlin

American actor Jayne Mansfield chats with the Queen at the reception line during the Royal Command Film performance at the Odeon Theatre in London. Mansfield was in Europe to plug her film Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, April 1957

Photograph: Bettmann

The Queen meets Elton John, Sir Cliff Richard, Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Tom Jones and Gary Barlow backstage during the Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace, June 2012

Photograph: Anwar Hussein

Singer Madonna shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth at the world premiere of the new James Bond film Die Another Day, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, November 2002

Photograph: Dan Chung

Queen Elizabeth sits with Vogue editor Anna Wintour as they view Richard Quinn’s runway show before presenting him with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, at London Fashion Week’s BFC Show Space, February 2018

Photograph: Yui Mok

American actor Raquel Welch shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth at a Royal Film performance. Next in line is the writer and director, Woody Allen, March 1966

Photograph: George Freston

Queen Elizabeth talks to Dame Judi Dench and artist Anish Kapoor during a reception for the Praemium Imperiale Awards at Buckingham Palace, July 2011

Photograph: Yui Mok

Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) shakes hands with the Queen as the royal meets the Spice Girls pop group after the Royal Variety performance at London’s Victoria Palace Theatre, December 1997

Comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel meet the Queen at the ITV 50th Anniversary celebration at the Guild Hall in London while Coronation Street actor Johnny Briggs looks on, October 2005

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip with US president Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan at their mountaintop getaway, Rancho Del Cielo, just north of Santa Barbara, March 1983

Photograph: Tim Graham

Singers Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dionne Warwick and George Burns meet the Queen after entertaining her during a dinner given in her honour by the City of Los Angeles, during the Royal Tour of the US, 27 February, 1983

Photograph: David Levenson

Sir Laurence Olivier with the Queen as she arrives at the Leicester Square Theatre for the world premiere of Richard III, which he produced and directed, December 1955

Photograph: Bettmann

Queen Elizabeth greets singer and actor Barbra Streisand at the film premiere of Funny Lady, 1975

Photograph: Hulton Archive

The Queen accompanies actor Barbara Windsor on a tour of the TV soap EastEnders, November 2001

Photograph: Tim Rooke

American actor Kirk Douglas bows as he shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth, as actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr (right) looks on, at the Royal Command premiere of director Alexander Hall’s film Because You’re Mine, in London, November 1952

Photograph: Hulton Archive

Jacqueline Kennedy, with her children, John Jr and Caroline, and her brother-in-law Robert Kennedy, greet the Queen during a ceremony to unveil a monument to John F Kennedy at Runnymede, May 1965

The Queen shakes hands with fashion designer Vivienne Westwood during a reception for Awards for Export, Technological and Environmental Achievement at Buckingham Palace, March 1999

Photograph: Fiona Hanson

Queen Elizabeth meets Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty at Westminster Abbey, London, at the annual Commonwealth Day Observance, March 2007

Photograph: Anwar Hussein/

The Queen shakes hands with the French actor Brigitte Bardot as Joan Crawford and Anita Ekberg look on, during the Royal Film Performance of Michael Powell’s The Battle of the River Plate at the Empire theatre, October 1956

Queen Elizabeth meets actors (from left) William Roache, Barbara Knox, Sue Nicholls and Helen Worth, during a visit to the set of Coronation Street at the ITV Studios, in Manchester, July 2021

Photograph: Scott Heppel

Posing with President Bill Clinton, his wife, Hillary Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea, in 2000.

Meeting Jennifer Lopez in 2001.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh meet the cast of The Good Life, (from left) Paul Eddington, Penelope Keith, Felicity Kendal and Richard Briers at the BBC TV studios in Shepherd’s Bush after they attended a recording of the show in aid of the Joint UK Appeal for the Commonwealth Games, June 1978