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NICE TRY, KID.
Queen Elizabeth was having a wander around St George’s Market in Belfast today when this teenager decided he was going to try to get a selfie with her in the background.
In what could well be her first selfie, the Queen looks like she’s going for a classic smiling-with-her-eyes pose (even if the rest of her face is a bit unimpressed). We like the annoyed looking man behind the kid though, who looks like he’s about to give the scolding of a lifetime.
In the next shot, the Queen looks marginally happier to be in the photo.
Now comes the wait for the selfie to pop up on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/somewhere. Don’t know if it’ll top the Pope Francis selfie from last year though.
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When I was young, a selfie was something you did with a porn mag and a box of Kleenex.
Kleenex. Ooooooh very posh.
Kitten soft was better more gentle …….
Sure, you’re still at it Roland – everyone knows that m8. /o\
Ah now don’t dismiss the good old sock
Only when yer bird’s too busy Glen :Dx
hahaha burnt !!!
The cult of narcissism gains more followers everyday
The best thing about that cult is that they all think they invented themselves #narcissists
The thing about that cult is; poor spelling:-)
Is it just me that finds the whole selfie thing a bit sad?
No sadder than most things these days
He looks quite happy to me.
“One does not take photos of me without permission little boy. Go f**k your selfie”
She looks totally fine with it. The faces on the idiots beside her and behind her.
Fair play to him for doing it, she is only a old woman after all. All these idiots bowing and scraping to people in monarchy and show business etc… makes my stomach turn.
she looked neither fine nor bothered,i highly doubt she had a clue what a selfie was
I’m sure she knew what it is, as Roland said, except the maid had to do it for her.
I totally agree
More appropriately called the “oneselfie”?
The sour face on the baldy lad.
Hope he got a good one!
Hope he got away with the pic without secret service deleting it!
The main man himself https://twitter.com/davidmeadelive/status/481540056608280576
Elizabeth, smile for your first selfie
I know I’d do the very same. He’s not hurting anyone.
Yer man looks like a beefed up Steve Davis. That pic is far better than the selfie ever could – you can sense they’d love to smash the phone to pieces but can’t be seen to carry on like that anymore. The whole peace thing and all.
I’m pretty sure we’ve a few selfies CB that would eclipse anything on social media
One is not amused – and she looks it-
I hope it’s legal to take a picture of your royal highness.
Nonplussed means surprised. Not underwhelmed.
He will get a hiding in a few weeks by men in black suits !
He also tried the same with The Duke of Edinburg… but blocked by cheeses stand…
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