Queen Elizabeth: lost without Prince Philip (1963 version)

As noted earlier today, I've been looking through some back issues of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, which I read assiduously for decades after discovering it on a visit to Not-so-great Britain in 1963. This is the cover from one of the early issues (No. 41) which I brought home with me.

 

On the cover date, 12 July 1963, I was en route to France to be there for Bastille Day on the 14th. Apparently I missed a spot of local (?) trouble, viz. the visit to London Her Majesty Queen Frederika of Greece. Born Frederica of Hanover (Friederike Luise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa), she was Queen consort of Greece from 1947 until 1964 as the wife of King Paul. 

Her visit to the UK caused some little fuss because, according according to Wikipedia, Queen Frederika was thought to be "inherently undemocratic". [Imagine a queen being undemocratic! Ed.] She was "notorious for her numerous arbitrary and unconstitutional interventions in Greek politics and clashes with democratically elected governments.... 

"At home in Greece and abroad in the United Kingdom, she was targeted by the opposition. In 1963 while visiting London, rioting by Greek leftists demonstrating against the situation with the political prisoners of the Greek civil war, forced her to temporarily seek refuge in a stranger's house." I'm not sure if that's a reference to Buckingham Palace, but that's the story behind the Eye cover.