Glamour overload: Queen Elizabeth meets the stars – in pictures (2024)

Queen Elizabeth talks to actor Joan Collins during the Dramatic Arts reception at Buckingham Palace, February 2014

Elizabeth meets Hollywood actor Marilyn Monroe Miller, standing next to Victor Mature, during the Royal Film Performance, October 1956

Paul McCartney gives a thumbs up to music students after they played for the Queen during her tour of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, June 1996

Singer Lady Gaga meets the Queen as the dance group Diversity watch, following the Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool, December 2009

The Queen meets Elton John, Sir Cliff Richard, Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Tom Jones and Gary Barlow backstage during the Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace, June 2012

American actor Jayne Mansfield chats with the Queen at the reception line during the Royal Command Film performance at the Odeon Theatre in London. Mansfield was in Europe to plug her film Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, April 1957

US actor Angelina Jolie is presented with the Insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George by Queen Elizabeth in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace. Jolie was awarded an honorary damehood for services to UK foreign policy and the campaign to end war zone sexual violence, October 2014

Queen Elizabeth meets Elizabeth Taylor and husband John Warner at a gala dinner in Washington DC, US, July 1976

At Buckingham Palace during a banquet held in his honour, US President John F Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline pose with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, June 1961

US actor Meryl Streep meeting Queen Elizabeth after a Royal Film Performance of Kramer vs Kramer at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, March 1980

Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) shakes hands with the Queen as the royal meets the Spice Girls pop group after the Royal Variety performance at London’s Victoria Palace Theatre, December 1997

Queen Elizabeth talks to Dame Judi Dench and artist Anish Kapoor during a reception for the Praemium Imperiale Awards at Buckingham Palace, July 2011

American actor Raquel Welch shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth at a Royal Film performance. Next in line is the writer and director, Woody Allen, March 1966

Queen Elizabeth sits with Vogue editor Anna Wintour as they view Richard Quinn’s runway show before presenting him with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, at London Fashion Week’s BFC Show Space, February 2018

Singer Madonna shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth at the world premiere of the new James Bond film Die Another Day, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, November 2002

Comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel meet the Queen at the ITV 50th Anniversary celebration at the Guild Hall in London while Coronation Street actor Johnny Briggs looks on, October 2005

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip with US president Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan at their mountaintop getaway, Rancho Del Cielo, just north of Santa Barbara, March 1983

Singers Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dionne Warwick and George Burns meet the Queen after entertaining her during a dinner given in her honour by the City of Los Angeles, during the Royal Tour of the US, 27 February, 1983

Sir Laurence Olivier with the Queen as she arrives at the Leicester Square Theatre for the world premiere of Richard III, which he produced and directed, December 1955

Queen Elizabeth greets singer and actor Barbra Streisand at the film premiere of Funny Lady, 1975

The Queen shakes hands with the French actor Brigitte Bardot as Joan Crawford and Anita Ekberg look on, during the Royal Film Performance of Michael Powell’s The Battle of the River Plate at the Empire theatre, October 1956

Queen Elizabeth meets Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty at Westminster Abbey, London, at the annual Commonwealth Day Observance, March 2007

The Queen shakes hands with fashion designer Vivienne Westwood during a reception for Awards for Export, Technological and Environmental Achievement at Buckingham Palace, March 1999

Jacqueline Kennedy, with her children, John Jr and Caroline, and her brother-in-law Robert Kennedy, greet the Queen during a ceremony to unveil a monument to John F Kennedy at Runnymede, May 1965

American actor Kirk Douglas bows as he shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth, as actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr (right) looks on, at the Royal Command premiere of director Alexander Hall’s film Because You’re Mine, in London, November 1952

The Queen accompanies actor Barbara Windsor on a tour of the TV soap EastEnders, November 2001

Queen Elizabeth meets actors (from left) William Roache, Barbara Knox, Sue Nicholls and Helen Worth, during a visit to the set of Coronation Street at the ITV Studios, in Manchester, July 2021

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh meet the cast of The Good Life, (from left) Paul Eddington, Penelope Keith, Felicity Kendal and Richard Briers at the BBC TV studios in Shepherd’s Bush after they attended a recording of the show in aid of the Joint UK Appeal for the Commonwealth Games, June 1978

The Queen stars in a James Bond sketch with actor Daniel Craig, made for the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, July 2012