The Queen Wore a Green Dress for her Speech and People Had Way too Much Fun With It

Mark Pygas - Author
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Updated March 11 2021, 3:37 p.m. ET

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Source: Buckingham palace / Peter Chiykowski

On Sunday, Queen Elizabeth II gave a rare royal address to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. "I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time," the Queen told viewers. "A time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all."

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Thanking workers of the National Health Service and other essential key workers, she went on to reassure people: "We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again."

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Source: Buckingham palace
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The speech was praised around the world as being unifying and optimistic in a time that could use a lot of both of those things. The Queen's only mistake? She decided to wear a green dress for the speech—a decision which Twitter user Peter Chiykowski took full advantage of with this photoshopped image.

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And it didn't stop there. Peter, along with others, managed to find plenty of other shirts that they could Photoshop onto one of the most influential people in the world.

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"'This is a difficult time for everyone and I, for one, am grateful for gifts such as these,'" Chiykowski jokingly captioned this image.

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"A few of you said my queenscreen photoshops are disrespectful, and you're right,"  Chiykowski joked in a further post. "The Queen is definitely a corgis > cats lady."

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"God save the Queen." 

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WHAT. A. LOOK.

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The Queen does her best to keep up with the latest television shows and video games.

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That's the wrong Queen.

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Beam her up, Scotty.

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This is too meta.

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The Queen is apparently a big fan of Doctor Who

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If her speech wasn't already enough, these Photoshops managed to bring a smile to a few people's faces.

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