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- PEOPLE, Page 61Mum? Is That Really You?
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- By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Allo, 'allo, what's going on 'ere then? QUEEN ELIZABETH THE
- QUEEN MOTHER has been done up for London's National Portrait
- Gallery, but somehow she doesn't look right. Now 89, Britain's
- most beloved granny posed for the likeness in five one-hour
- sessions, but it seems a bit dour, like a landlady who's not too
- friendly when the rent's got behind. Scottish artist ALISON
- WATT, 23, wanted to show the Queen Mum's strong personality, not
- create a chocolate-box version of her: there's no tiara, not
- even a hat. Maybe people will be surprised and won't like it,
- Watt says, but "I wasn't prepared to paint a Polaroid snap of
- her." The Queen Mum reportedly approves.
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