Her Majesty the Queen was one of the most photographed women in the world, but there was one body part she hated being photographed, a leading photographer revealed.

Rankin, a prestigious photographer, was one of 10 photographers invited to photograph the Queen for her Golden Jubilee in 2002 and later appeared on Hello! 's "Tea with Twiggy" podcast, revealed that meeting the late Her Majesty was unlike anything he had ever experienced before.

"Of course, the Queen came in and this wave of empowerment came in," he says in an interview recorded before her death on September 8. 'She was so funny from the moment she walked in. I said, 'I really want to take a picture of you holding the sword,' and she said, 'I don't like my hands. ' [I thought it was the best 'getaway' to hold the sword. I probably shouldn't have said that.

Rankin had only been with her for five minutes, but "what I liked about her was that she was so smart and she had this great twist to every response she was saying. It was really, really great."

He also revealed that before the shoot he saw the queen laughing and joking with the footman. He said, "I was in the throne room and the queen was walking down the corridor and I saw the queen and the footman walking by. They were laughing at each other and I thought, "This is it!" I thought. So that's what I had in my head the whole time."

Later, he said, "The curator told me that my picture of her was one of their favorites - one of the favorites of the palace.

We still miss that laugh.