Woman gets Queen's face tattooed on her leg as a mark of respect

A woman who claims she is ‘not a royalist’ has had an amazing remembrance portrait of Queen Elizabeth II tattooed on her leg in tribute. Falon Cooper, 37, had planned to get the 'incredible' body art done for the Queen's platinum jubilee earlier this year but never got round to it.

After her death, she had the life-like tribute - based on a portrait of her as a younger woman - inked on her right thigh over six painstaking hours. Falon, from Cheshire, said that it was important to keep the tattoo simple because the Queen was ‘incredible as she is’.

"I've got other tattoos and I wanted the Queen anyway and it is something that I have been thinking about for a while with her jubilee,” she said.

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“I was exploring the option of maybe having a tattooed version of her, but with recent events I just thought that that was a little inappropriate. So I just went ahead and got a simple portrait of her as she is, because she doesn't need to be tarnished up with tattoos - she is pretty much incredible as she is.

“It's not necessarily that I'm a fan of the royals, but it's the Queen. I'm not a royalist but I did take my family down to London over the weekend and went and laid some flowers.

“It's just respectful - she's basically Great Britain."

Award-winning tattoo artist Alessio Catanzani, of Redemption Tattoo Studio in Sheffield, said it was an 'immense honour' to capture the Queen's likeness.

"I think it was an immense honour to tattoo the queen in this very important period,” said Alessio. "I am so happy that people have liked it after all the effort that has been made in making this."

Falon continued: "I knew that it