A day after surprising a global audience with her cameo as a parachuting Bond-girl, it's been revealed the Queen "immensely enjoyed" her small acting role in the London Olympics opening ceremony.
A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said the Queen was first approached in Mulberry Bags Outlet 2011 and was "very happy" to get involved.
Director Danny Boyle has previously said the Queen had "made herself more accessible then ever before", and the sequences, co-starring Daniel Craig as James Bond, were filmed in March and April this year.
They were set in the quadrangle, the Grand Entrance, the East Gallery, the Audience Room and the West Terrace, Buckingham Palace said.
They even starred her own dogs.
The Queen wore a peach cocktail dress by Angela Kelly, and a peach headpiece with handmade porcelain flowers.
However, the 86-year-old monarch left it to actress Julia McKenzie - also dressed in peach - to climb into a helicopter before stuntman Gary Connery parachuted out of the helicopter in a similar outfit.
The Queen has never acted on film before, though other members of the Royal Family have dabbled with the acting world - the Prince of Wales made a cameo appearance in an episode of ITV's Coronation Street in 2000, while the Duchess of Cornwall has appeared on The Archers on BBC Radio 4.
The Buckingham Palace spokeswoman Mulberry Bags said Mulberry Bayswater Bags the Queen has been to two James Bond premieres - Die Another Day in 2002 and Casino Royale in 2006, while she visited the James Bond set at Pinewood Studios in 2007.
She and her husband Prince Philip continued their Olympic involvement on Saturday morning, taking in the bird's eye view of the Olympic complex from atop the 115 metre Orbit sculpture beside the stadium.
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