My Brush with Her Maj ; in This Delightfully Whimsical Account, Rolf Harris Reveals What Really Happened When He Accepted the Most Awesome Commission of His Life . . .

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WHAT nobody tells you about Buckingham Palace is the corridors. Not only are they very, very long but they are lined with portrait after huge, classical portrait of just about any King or Queen, Prince or Princess you care to mention.

As I walked slowly past them, their eyes following me, I felt completely overawed. What was I, an ordinary bloke from Perth, Western Australia, doing here, in the Palace?

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My Brush with Her Maj ; in This Delightfully Whimsical Account, Rolf Harris Reveals What Really Happened When He Accepted the Most Awesome Commission of His Life . . .

The answer (that I still find hard to believe) was that I was there to paint a portrait of Her Majesty the Queen.

I glanced down at my paint-smudged trousers, which I always wear when I'm working but which felt distinctly out of place amid all the gold and royal finery, and gulped.

It had all seemed such a good idea when Tina Fletcher, executive producer of my BBC series, Rolf On Art, had rung up with the suggestion that I paint a portrait of the Queen to mark her 80th birthday.

'If we could just get the Palace to agree to have the cameras in there w...

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