Company accepts royal fiasco blame

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In an email to BBC director-general Mark Thompson, RDF's chief executive David Frank said the company was "guilty of a serious error of judgment".

He offered an unreserved apology to the Queen and to the BBC, which released a copy of the email exchange.

The trailer for BBC1 documentary A Year With The Queen implied that the monarch had walked out of the portrait sitting after Leibovitz asked her to remove her crown.

In an email to Mr Thompson, Mr Frank condemned the behaviour of RDF employees for "manipulating the chronology of any footage".

The ensuing royal row had been "an extremely painful lesson for those involved", he added.

The trailer showed US photographer Leibovitz telling the Queen, who was wearing her Order of the Garter robes: "I think it will look better without the crown because the garter robe is so ..."

But before Leibovitz could finish saying "extraordinary", the Queen gave her an icy stare and says: "Less dressy? What do you think this is?", pointing to what she is wearing.

The trailer then cut to the Queen walking through Buckingham Palace and saying to her lady-in-waiting: "I'm not changing anything. I've had enough dressing like this, thank you very much."

But a day after it was shown to journalists, the BBC was forced to make an embarrassing apology. Footage of the Queen "storming out" was actually footage of her on her way to the sitting.