LONDON – on one side there is Queen Elizabeth, the queen’s most long-lived of the history. On the other, the Queen, the legendary rock band that took its name from the monarch. “Who would have ever imagined when we founded?”, says Brian May, guitarist of the group. They are the two sides of the commemorative coin minted today by the Royal Mint, the royal mint in the uk.

The sovereign does not comment, but evidently he has given his permission to the project: after all, she herself has raised to the baronet a good number of stars of the national music.