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This photo was taken by my dad Roy Penny when he served as a photographer in the Royal Navy in He was taking pictures of the Queen in her car, but as he got out he realised his camera was in the wrong hand so if he saluted her he would have hit his head with it. So he just stood to attention, and as the Queen got out she gave him a massive smile.

Janet Penny, Kent. I was an exchange student at the time, and it was announced the Queen would visit Russia while I was there.

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It was an opportunity not to be missed. I didn't have an invitation, but when I got to Red Square, a camera operator from a rival British broadcaster handed me his tripod and said, 'here, take this - you'll be taken for a media worker'. It worked a treat. This was before digital cameras and smartphones, so I limited my photo use to two. The repercussions of this were pretty huge.

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For example, six months later, when I enrolled on an Erasmus exchange at Strasbourg University in France, the head of the department chose the initial interview to say to me, 'Ah, I've heard all about your adventures in Russia! The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were both a little sad that local people were being kept away from the visitors, and they'd only met British expats.

When the Duke spoke to me, asking what I was doing there, a Russian interpreter asked me the question in Russian.