The Queen by Rolf 

*"Nah"* - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

"I'm trying to capture the real you!" is probably something she's heard from every painter in her entire life.

This is the closest thing you will get to an unscripted interview with the queen.

I love how fast she left after he was done

QUEEN: "well, when he said he needed to do a quick touch up, I assumed he meant the painting!"

Coming back to this two years later, when Her Majesty has died, and Rolf Harris is, apparently, desperately ill at 92, I'm left with a feeling of total sadness: it was a good portrait - far better than so many others; he was so pleased and so honoured to have the chance to paint her; and since then - total disgrace for him. I suppose he deserved it; I can't judge the sins of others, having enough of my own; but to dismiss him, to forget him, to cast him into nothingness - just isn't right. He WAS a talented artist - he was also a fallible man, and even at times a wicked one, if judged by standards he just didn't seem to understand. But there was far more to him than his crime, or crimes - he doesn't deserve to be air-brushed from history.

Grande Regina Elisabetta, ci mancherà come donna sobria, per il suo stile. Era la nostra nonna o bisnonna per antonomasia.

Listening to the Queen talk in a casual way is amazing.

I wonder what basement that paintings in now.

Cant believe the Queen said "Nah" 😀

We won't have another Queen for generations now. I like having a Queen more than King.

Watching her majesty on this show, it’s hard to believe she’s left us.

You can tell the queen has visited Scotland a fair amount of times when she says “nah” 😂

@42:30 .... Rolf: "Do you keep a lot of the portraits?" Queen: "No, none! They're all painted for other people." (Exquisite awkward moment) Rolf: "Would you like to keep any of them?" Queen: "No!" ...........All his efforts completely wasted - priceless!

She was so annoyed😂 she was like "Bruh shut up and just do it!" 😂

This comment is about the painting...I'm not going to comment on the man, because I know absolutely nothing about him. I ran across this video and wanted to see his portrait of the Queen. I truly love the painting. I think he caught her personality brilliantly. You can see her sense of humor captured beautifully in her eyes. She truly was a treasure and I always had so much respect for her. Please know that we Americans feel the loss as well. Best wishes to everyone from across the pond. :)

WTF did the queen just say "nah" lmao 11:06

I love the queens sense of humour

Oh so he was an artist..i got shouted in highschool by my art teacher in australia when i said rolf harris did paintings.. thankyou miss cassotti.

He wasn't really there to paint the Queen, he was swapping stories with Prince Andrew.

I love the Queen! nothing but class, love the way she handles people lol.

Queen looks so bored listening to him rattling on.

He painted Her Majesty. Now he's serving time at Her Majestys pleasure...lmao

He was a huge inspiration for me, the reason I got into painting 🎨. It was a huge shock hearing on the news when he was charged for sexual offences. I couldn’t believe it, under the soft gentle outside he was a very dark person. I still find it hard, I know what he did was disgusting his talent was short lived by his actions

oh yeah, i saw that painting at a car boot sale last week..50p

The Queen didn't look 80 here. Beautiful lady 🌹

I hope the reputation of the artist doesn’t permanently ruin our view of this painting. It’s really a departure for portraits of HM and we loved it when it was unveiled. I still do.

What a beautiful gesture from the queen to have her portrait taken from her room for Rolf to inspect.. these are the things people may overlook..she was a truly lovely woman.

I wouldn't imagine the BBC will ever repeat this again.

I loved this... and how the Queen's personality shine through in the programme. What an exceptionally lovely lady!

Rolf: Does that upset you? Queen: Nahhh (NO kidding) I have NEVER heard her say Naaahh

11:02 Queen: The trouble is you see yourself aging in front of it. Painter: Does that upset you? Queen: Neh.

The Queen had to most warm and friendly smile of anyone.

...beautiful picture! I liked to watch the process. The Queen is a very nice person. Imagine how may years of smalltalk she spend and she is still very friendly to exited people. I like the Queen!😊

Rolf may be persona non grata. But i loved his portrait of the Queen. Never con fuse the value of the art with the virtue of the artist

felt under-dressed so i paused the video, wore a 3 piece suit, made tea, baked biscuits and came back....now it feels right

I just wanted him to shut up and paint. He couldn’t stop yapping.

Her sense of humour was amazing this was for her 80th birthday as I recall …

I hope he realizes what a privilege it was to have such access to her like that, up close, personal, relaxed small talk. The way she delivered that line, "... after I succeeded and got into her safe..."

I like his painting and how he approaches the work. The same method I was taught in my final years at art school. This portrait has a wonderful freshness and immediacy. Like it very much.

This is uncomfortable on so many levels....

She's so modest and down to earth, just sweet and wonderful in every way.

Real shame, that was a really nice portrait, beautiful smile.

“Na” and the look on her face at the state of the camera 😂

My favorite part was hearing the Queen speak of the other painters and paintings

What a lovely presence she is. Her smile is disarming, her face beautifully animated. He really missed the corners of the smile, which are the best parts of it. Otherwise, she was the essence of grace. I wish she'd talked some more. She has a wicked sense of humor. She was ill, and still showed up! Glad I saw this. Through the years, she's been vilified and demeaned, yet she's weathered it all and come out of it as the classy lady she is.

I think his painting, of the queen, was superb. .

I'm saddened that he tainted his life with his perversion because he was so gifted by such a beautiful gift. It is interesting that they spoke about George Stubbs. I had to do a painting of a horse for Three Penny Opera that was based on a George Stubbs painting.

The Queen it's very friendly and has a beautiful smile.

god bless our queen, she genuinely cared and wanted to know about rolf and his life and had a normal conversation with him

Chatting like two old friends. She was just charming and elegant. Rest In Peace Your Majesty.

It's now locked away out of sight since his downfall. But it was a very good painting

As much as I loved the Queen she wasn’t the easiest to strike a conversation with. She can be quite difficult. She is abrasive at times, and makes others uncomfortable with her lack of replies and awkward silences. I imagine it must have been difficult for Diana to try to build a relationship with her. I also found her to be sarcastic at times when people asked her questions or tried to come forward to help her. We all just say ahhh isn’t she lovely, but if that was an ordinary person you would say don’t talk to me in that fashion. She got away with however she spoke because she was Queen, and we already had a great respect for her, but she came across as rude at times.

I am amazed by what a nice and lovely personable lady the Queen is...I think he did achieve a very good likeness...

I love watching Rolf Harris I used to watch him growing up when I was a child I used to love his cartoons and him drawing painting them I think he was the perfect choice to draw paint the Queen of England 🇬🇧🌹♥️🦁and he did a really very good job and drew her with a bit of sense of humour and friendly which I rather liked and of course class a very enjoyable video indeed for me to watch thank you for sharing this ☺️👍🏻💯🥰😊👍🏻💯

Wonderful, excellent professional, no wonder you stand next to the wonderful queen that exists on this planet!

I noticed how she touched her ring at some point. I heard it is a signal for her entourage that means she had enough of a certain situation, or conversation.

This was wonderful to watch at the time. I so wish to have that moment back

Man I saw this guy as a kind hearted person good painter and great singer a shame of what he did

I’d be really annoyed if he spent time painting the dress and stuff. I would only sit for him to paint my face.

What a classy, wonderful woman she is!

So fascinating and interesting! And to see the Queen's personality while they chatted.

I remembered seeing it back when I lived in London and before I heard all of these heartbreaking stories about him. I once watched Rolf on art. The most depressing and amusing aspect is to imagine a predator coming so close to the Queen and bringing such dishonor.

Jimmy Savile and Gary Glitter were totally different to Rolf Harris. For a start there was actual evidence against them. Rolf Harris (if you actually bother to look into the details of the trial and the unprofessional way the police "investigated" his case) was convicted mainly after trial by media before his case came to court and his whole trial was clouded by the first case dealt with by the court, that he was accused of having molested an 8 year old. The other charges against him at his first trial were tainted by the accusations made by the woman who claimed to be 8 years old at the time. However, when the details of her accusations were investigated thoroughly by investigators acting for Rolf Harris at his subsequent trials, it was shown that the whole thing had been made up and consequently he was found not guilty of that charge. However, as he had already been convicted, it was too late to prevent the jury from perceiving him as being a paedophile. The other accusations for which he was convicted were also provably false or at the very least based on accounts that when looked at or scrutinised, could not have happened the way it was claimed. He was found not guilty of all other charges brought at his second and third trial after "victims" had brought stories to operation yew tree after responding to requests for "victims" to come forward having been told "you will be believed" with newspapers of a certain type boasting of potential compensation for victims being in the tens of thousands if not more. None of the cases on their own would have been enough to convict anyone. However, the fact that Operation Yewtree presented their "evidence" as if there had been a pattern was enough for the jury to decide, against real evidence, that he was guilty. There is a book out now by this investigation team (Rolf Harris. The Defence Team's Special investigator Reveals The Truth Behind The Trials by William Merritt) which quite clearly illustrates the shocking stitch up Rolf Harris was subject to. Anyone who genuinely thinks Rolf Harris was treated fairly should read this account and it will shock you to the core that someone could be convicted on the flimsiest of evidence. I think there is a suggestion that Rolf Harris may have been a bit tactile at times with people (not those who made accusations as most of them provably did not come in to contact with him or others whose account would have been witnessed by people if they had been true) as was the behaviour of people in the 70s and 80s, which doesn't condone that sort of thing but it was almost certainly not as sexually aggressive as was portrayed in court and certainly not paedophilia. As the book points out, the Metropolitan Police investigating these crimes were, at the time, involved with their own questionable practice of stamping new female recruits as an initiation ceremony where young police woman had their bare bottoms stamped with the station stamp while everyone else looked on! I know there will be people who take issue with what I have said, but I suggest you do a bit of research first and not just rely on what you are told by the tabloid media. As I said, Jimmy Savile and Gary Glitter were totally different cases, but unfortunately Rolf Harris was tarred with the same brush, as was nearly Cliff Richard, Paul Gambaccini, Jim Davidson, Freddie Starr etc. all of whose cases were dismissed or fund not guilty through a lack of evidence and believability of the complainants.

Queen Elizabeth has always been beautiful during her young life + today. Don't think anyone else is capable of fitting in the shoes of such a wonderful person she is. She looks younger than her age.

Despite not knowing much about him and skipping through large chunks of this video... I think: She's very classy and seemed relaxed. He did a pretty nice job capturing her.

lol...."Have you painted anything with me today?".....classic!

This has aged well.

So much admiration, respect, and genuine thumbs up for HRH The Queen. I am so privileged to be alive through some of her rein.

I really like the painting. That Rolf was an old lech is neither here nor there in relation to the paintings merits

Yes indeed what a lovely person ! This queen is not my queen, in my country we have no queen and we do not need one but we all deeply love this one !

This will be controversial, but this is one of the best portraits of the Queen I have ever seen.

I so loved ,sitting through this painting , thank you .

Difficult to find the words. He seemed like such a nice guy. So much a part of the childhood of those of us who grew up in the 60s & 70s, and so talented. I still feel affection for him... but

It’s a real shame Rolf threw everything away for his own sexual gratification. He’s almost hypnotising in this, with his soothing voice, you just can’t help but be amazed by him. Rolf will always be plagued by what he has done and he’ll live with that regret until the end.

She's savage I like her.

I remember him slapping out full paintings in less than 5 minutes but he's taking ages here and he's made her look weird. It's the nearest thing to an interview with the Queen but what a shame it had to be with Rolph Harris!

I must confess I was worried first, but then, what an achievement ! That was a good job ! You do not betray her expression and we can find her in it ; thank you so much .

Rolf was clearly so privileged to paint the Queen's portrait. He was a brilliant artist and credit has to be given for at least some of the positive things he left us with. The portrait is stunning.

What a complicated and accomplished woman. So removed from the life most of us know.

I wonder if Rolf ever had a sit-down with Prince Andrew during the tea breaks to discuss mutual interests.

11:07 when the queen says "nah" caught me offguard sounds like a regular old cockney person in a pub saying it

She's so lovely I just can't. I'd cry if I were ever to meet her...

What joy it was to watch your creative process...those small details you shared were like hidden diamonds wonderfully shared..your sincerity and interaction allowed the public to get to know the queen ...how pleasant demeanor..thanks for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

I kind of enjoyed the chit-chat and the anticipation of the Queen who acted with graciousness in making it pleasant for the artist. Even though she is having so many conversations during the day every day. You never hear of the Queen taking afternoon naps. Is she? I wonder.

thankyou rolf u did a great job. well done. i like your drawrings

The queen looked scared of him. She looked very scared. I hope this evil man rots in prison

The BBC doing what it does best.

Absolutely lovely video...thank you.

I must say the portrait is an incredible piece of work much like the artist

This is very helpful to me as a painter. Thanks for posting. Enjoy watching his process.

You can see just how deeply impressed with himself he is, hanging on every single word, being ever so careful not to move too quickly for we might just miss a whole second of the ultimate harris charm and intellect. In the U.S. we have our version of this man, and his name is Cosby.

In the second sitting she seems to be quite dismissive and contemptuous of him. Did the Secret Service fill her in on the claims that had been made about Harris? "I haven't done anything with you today, but I should do shouldn't I?" - Rolf says...

Perfect painting. He speaks full and also dramatically

I'm hoping the Palace will commission me to do Princess Charlotte....I mean do her portrait when I'm released some time before 2020

she really is not amused by him is she

Fantastic! The most perfect ! The queem is perfect!!!! Congratulations!

Sadly both the Queen and Rolf have both sadly left us recently

It's such a shame about Rolf, he was more than "just a celebrity'' he literally was a national treasure, its very upsetting to see his career and indeed possibly, his life, end this way. I met Rolf briefly, about 20 years ago in Cardiff, He came across as such a warm, friendly gentleman, yet its clear now, He had a very dark sinister side. it's upsetting.

God bless The Queen of England for being a woman with great virtue.