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In November 2004, Queen Elizabeth II paid a visit to the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at Howe Barracks in Canterbury, Kent, to present medals to the unit for their recent tour of duty in Iraq. According to a picture that was shared online, as Her Majesty posed for a standard photograph with the honored soldiers, one of the men named Col. Simon West appeared to have not arranged his kilt quite carefully enough: The Daily Mail reported the news like this: The photograph that accompanied the Daily Mail article is seen below. It wasn't quite as revealing as the one shown above: It was initially unclear if the Daily Mail's version of the picture was edited by its staff for decency's sake, or if someone took the original photograph and digitally added some extra naughty bits. The Mirror‘s report on this photo, which showed the headline, My Privates Can't Control Themselves, suggested the latter, that Colonel West did indeed pose sans underpants, but the shadowing of the photo obscured anything more he might have revealed: At the time, The Mirror was unable to clear up the age-old mystery of just what one might expect to find under a kilt: While updating this story following the queen's death in September 2022, we noticed that Getty Images had published three different high resolution photographs from the moment with the colonel's raised kilt, including this one: The colonel's genitals did not, in fact, appear to be visible while seated next to the queen. At the same time, his kilt was raised, allowing a view underneath the clothing that perhaps wasn't part of his plan that day.
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