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Charlie Duffield & Aaron Morris

The Queen's cheeky four-word response to photographer who asked her to smile for him

A photograph of Queen Elizabeth II smiling released on the night of her funeral reveals the great wit of the UK's longest-ever reigning monarch.

Speaking on Lorraine Kelly's programme on ITV, photographer Ranald Mackechnie opened up about the formerly unseen portrait taken at Windsor Castle in May - just before Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee celebrations the month after.

The Mirror reports that he recalled: "She arrived and walked in and we said hello, then she just looks at me and she goes, 'What do you want?'"

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