Queen Elizabeth II
photobombs Australian hockey player Jayde Taylor’s selfie at 2014
Commonwealth Games
Queen Elizabeth II left a pair of Australian athletes
stunned when she photobombed their selfie before their field hockey match on
the first day of the Commonwealth Games in Scotland.
“Ahhh The Queen photo-bombed our selfie!!” Jayde Taylor wrote on Twitter after
posting the royal image Thursday.
The regal selfie has since
gone viral. In less than five hours, the photo has been retweeted more than
4,700 times and “favourited” by almost 4,000 people. Even the official Twitter account for the British
Monarchy retweeted the
image.
Taylor later tweeted Ellen
DeGeneres to say, “I think our selfie tops yours!”
DeGeneres set the record for the most-retweeted post ever after she took an
impromptu selfie with a dozen Hollywood stars while she was hosting the Oscars
last march. DeGeneres’s tweet has been shared more than 3.4 million times.
Hockeyroo teammates Taylor and
Brooke Peris later said that they had always hoped to capture the Queen of
England in their selfie as she walked by, but were surprised that she decided
to stop and pose for the photo.
We “planned it so that when
she came out the door she would be behind us. And then she came out and smiled
at the camera,” Taylor toldnews.com.au . “We were in the right spot at the
right time.”
Another teammate, Anne
Flanagan, posted a photo of the Queen from a different angle.
The royal selfie may have
served as a good luck charm for the girls’ hockey team as they went on to beat
Malaysia 4-0 at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre. The Queen and her husband,
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, stuck around to watch the match. When it
was over, the 88-year-old monarch came down to meet the Australian team.
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