BBC has apologized after a trailer of a forthcoming documentary series on the queen shown to media representatives gave the impression that the monarch had abruptly halted the photoshoot with American celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.

According to media reports, Annie Leibovitz, who took the photos ahead of the queen's visit to the US in May, suggested that she wanted the monarch to look "less dressy."

Leibovitz said before the photographic sessions that she wanted to take "a very simple portrait." "I like tradition," Leibovitz was quoted as saying. "Cecil Beaton's pictures - they're very important to me."

In the footage shown by BBC the queen appeared for the sitting in heavily-ordained Order of the Garter robes and a diamond tiara.

But in the trailer it is a sequence when Leibovitz, 56, suggested: "I think it will look better without the crown...less dressy." "Less dressy?" - the queen responded. "What do you think this is?"

That version of the story was picked up by all British newspapers Thursday, and said the queen walked out of the white drawing room at Buckingham Palace, fuming: "I'm not changing anything. I've had enough dressing like this, thank you very much."

Today, BBC explained that the footage was filmed her way to the sitting. "In this trailer there is a sequence that implies that the queen left a sitting prematurely. This was not the case and the actual sequence of events was misrepresented."

"The BBC would like to apologize to both the queen and Annie Leibovitz for any upset this may have caused", BBC said in a statement.  

BBC added that the clip had never been intended to be seen by the public or the press. Anne Leibovitz is well known for her photographs for Rolling Stone magazine of a naked John Lennon hugging a fully clothed Yoko Ono and a very-pregnant Demi Moore for the cover of Vanity Fair.