A ROYAL SNUB OR A FREUDIAN SLIP? ARTIST HAS A FUNNY TURN AT PALACE PHOTOCALL.Byline: By ALLISON MARTIN ARE you sure that's your best side, Mr Freud? Artist Lucian appeared to give the Queen the brush-off brush·off also brush-off n. An abrupt dismissal or snub. Noun 1. brush-off - a curt or disdainful rejection rejection - the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection" yesterday in the line-up for a photograph. He and a host of dignitaries - who have all received the Order of Merit Order of Merit Noun Brit an order awarded for outstanding achievement in any field - were invited to lunch at Buckingham Palace. Afterwards, they joined the Queen, Prince Philip and Charles to pose for a group photograph. But at the crucial moment, Freud, 84, turned away from the camera. The Order of Merit is an honour given personally by the Queen without recommendations from politicians. Others looking more relaxed for the shot included Sir David Attenborough and former PM Baroness Thatcher. IN THE LINE-UP: Back, from left: Astronomer Lord Rees of Ludlow, Anglican Primate of Ireland Primate of Ireland is a title possessed by the Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland (Anglican) Archbishops of Dublin. It does not however indicate that the Archbishop is the most senior clergyman of his Chistian denomination in Ireland but rather he is the second-most senior and Archbishop of Armagh Lord Eames, naturalist Sir David Attenborough, philanthropist Lord Rothschild, mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose, pharmacologist Sir James Black, sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, playwright Sir Tom Stoppard Noun 1. Sir Tom Stoppard - British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937) Stoppard, Thomas Straussler, Tom Stoppard , Ecologist Lord May of Oxford, first female Speaker of Commons Baroness Boothroyd, Military historian Sir Michael Howard, inventor of world wide web Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, former private secretary to Queen Lord Fellowes. Front, from left: Industrial engineer Sir Denis Rooke, mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah, ex-PM Baroness Thatcher, theological historian Rev Owen Chadwick, Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen, Prince of Wales, physiologist Sir Andrew Huxley, soprano Dame Joan Sutherland, painter Lucian Freud, and architect Lord Foster of Thames Bank. ARTY FACT Lucian Freud's naked portrait of model Kate Moss when she was pregnant sold for pounds 3.9million. mirrornews@mgn.co.uk CAPTION(S): SHY: Freud turns away |
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