Sentences with phrase «coronation portrait»

HRH Queen Elizabeth II stared balefully down on me from the faded coronation portrait that had graced the terminal wall since the building's dedication.

In the book (at least in the uncorrected proof), the painter of her coronation portrait is called Hayden; the TV version corrects this — it was Hayter — but their version of the portrait itself has Victoria's head turned way too much to the right, apparently trying to fit the novel, which describes her pose (p. 142) as «standing and looking back over her shoulder.»