Queen Elizabeth II, the current representative of an institutional historical virus, recently gave an address about a different kind of deadly international disease. As a rare, non-Christmas television appearance, Liz 2's broadcast generated a lot of interest, especially from those who couldn’t help but look at the monarch wearing a simple green dress and imagine the possibilities inherent in her basically presenting a blank canvas for them to fuck around with.
The Queen’s green screen outfit has been a particular source of fascination for Peter Chiykowski, who’s been tweeting out a ton of variations on the dress. Chiykowski calls it “the perfect Photoshop bait” and has proven the truth of that statement by messing around with images from the address so it looks like Elizabeth II is wearing cool images of dogs in sunglasses, cosmic cats, and Iron Maiden tour merch.
Others have joined in, showing us a cooler version of the Queen who has the three-wolf moon t-shirt in her gilded closets along with Star Trek cosplay outfits and a few more bits of memorabilia from some of her favorite bands.