Rolf Harris treated Queen Elizabeth II “in the same way he would an eight year old child” while painting her famous royal portrait, according to a new documentary.
The unsettling moment features in Rolf Harris: Primetime Predator, which revisits the disgraced entertainer’s visit to Buckingham Palace after the BBC commissioned him to paint the late monarch to mark her 80th birthday.
Rolf Harris paints the Queen in a clip shown in a new documentary (Credit: Prime Video/ BBC)
Years later, Harris was jailed after being convicted of a string of sex offences.
The documentary has also prompted fresh questions over what happened to the famous portrait after his downfall.
Rolf Harris paints Queen portrait in new documentary
Rolf Harris travels to Buckingham Palace to meet Queen Elizabeth II in Rolf Harris: Primetime Predator, which dropped on Prime Video this week.
The footage comes from the 2006 BBC documentary The Queen by Rolf Harris.
“I can hardly believe it,” Rolf says as he sits in the back of a black cab. “Up there, in the palace, the Queen of England is expecting me.”
After arriving at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth, dressed in a turquoise frock, greets him with: “Oh, good afternoon.” Rolf bows before shaking her hand.
He then begins painting her portrait as the Queen sits for him.
Rolf tells her: “I was forever saying to my father, ‘Don’t move, don’t move, I’m going to catch you just like that’.”
He made her laugh with a story about his dad (Credit: Prime Video/ BBC)
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