Official Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II taken in 2017 by Ian Leslie MacDonald. MacDonald was a 48th Highlander, and became the regiment’s official photographer. The portrait hung in the Officers Mess, Moss Park Armoury, 48th Highlanders. It is Signed by Her Majesty.
Colour portrait is in a gold coloured guilt frame 33″ x 32″. The image size is 20″ x 19″ with a green matte of 3 1/2 ” border around the image.
The portrait, taken in Buckingham Palace, shows Her Majesty sitting wearing a gold dress and on Her left shoulder a 48th Highlanders badge, (lozenge pattern from WWII) diamond encrusted, given to her on her appointment in 1947 as Colonel-in-Chief of the 48th Highlanders of Canada. On Her Majesty’s chair is draped a Davidson Tartan of the 48th Highlanders of Canada. The 48th Highlanders, and two other regiments, were the first appointments as Colonel-in-Chief accepted by Her Majesty on the same date in 1947.