Her Majesty Queen Does A Diana: Portrait Unveiled
HER Majesty the Queen is in Uganda.
There she has been offered a portrait of she and Prince Philip, as painted by one Joackim Onyangeo Nedalo. He has travelled from his native Kenya to present Her Majesty with his work, which took him three months to complete.
Mr Nedalo will be delighted to know that “his picture was drawn to her attention as she drove past in her bullet-proof Range Rover”.
No time to stop as Her Majesty heads for what the Times calls a “Diana moment”.
No, she’s not shopping, romancing a soldier or placing her hair in a bun. The Queen is shaking the hand of an ill man. As the Times notes: “Stephen Wakodo is HIV positive. Yesterday he shook hands with the Queen in Uganda. The occasion was a first for both of them.”
Mr Wakodo has not shaken hands with the Queen before, nor with Diana, who is pictured pressing the flesh of HIV patient Shane Snape back in 1987.
There are many firsts in this event – the Queen has never “knowingly” met an HIV sufferer before; never before met an HIV patient while wearing a lime green dress; never before met Mr Wakodo.
It is also the first time Her Majesty has been alikened to Diana, of whom portraits are in ready supply…
Posted: 23rd, November 2007 | In: Broadsheets, Royal Family, Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
