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The Queen And The Eye
The Queen And The Eye

Seventy Glorious Covers

By Private Eye

IT WAS QUEEN ELIZABETH II who spoke the first photo- bubble ever to appear on the front cover of Private Eye magazine, in the fifth edition in February 1962. Prince Charles, 13, had just been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy. Over the years there were to be many, many more covers featuring Her Majesty. Here are seventy of the finest...





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