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Queen was helped to fulfil her "secret wish" by one of her closest aides, despite warnings from her advisors that it could "bring the monarchy down". Royal dresser Angela Kelly revealed that she had long known about Her Majesty's "secret wish" to be photographed with her hands in her pockets.However, both her aides and the Queen Mother were against this idea and deemed it "not suitable for the public eye".Some even believed that such casualness might "bring the monarchy down".But after years of sitting upright for official portraits, she longed for the freedom to be photographed more informally.Kelly happily obliged and made the Monarch's wish come true when working on her first book, asking her if she would consider modelling with her hands in her pockets.She told the Daily Telegraph: "The Queen looked at me in amazement as I asked whether she knew the potential implications of the photographs.“She didn't take long to answer: yes, she would do it and, yes, she was sure.” On the big day the Monarch knew exactly what she wanted and even gave the photographer, Barry Jeffery, the directions of how things would go.The author quotes the Queen as saying: "No Barry, this is how we're going to do it.

Throughout her life, the late Queen posed for countless official photographs, as well as hundreds of family pictures - making her perhaps one of the most photographed women in the world. While she was usually required to pose in a formal way with dignitaries or visiting Heads of State, there was something that the monarch had always wanted to try but was never able to.

The Queen insists on pockets on her outfits after years of being told to keep her hands out of them, it has emerged. As a child, the monarch's family told her it was considered rude to use pockets and had them sewn up to stop her from being photographed with her hands inside, according to a new book However, decades later, she achieved her dream of being snapped in the informal pose - thanks to the help of her personal dresser.Throughout her childhood, the Queen's elders, in particular her grandmother, George V's wife Queen Mary, insisted she keep her hands out of her pockets and they were sewn up on all her clothes, Andrew Morton says in his new book on the monarch.