London: The Queen maintained a dignified silence on Monday after being depicted as a toothless Cabbage Patch doll in a controversial new portrait being shown at Tate Modern.
But at least the monarch was spared from New York artist George Condo's original idea - he wanted to paint her as a nude in the style of Spanish master Diego Velazquez.
Long gone are the deferential days in the 1950s when Pietro Annigoni painted the monarch as a stately young woman in flowing robes.