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"Richard Ingrams has said that the Queen should not have starred in the James Bond scene in Danny Boyle&amp;#039;s London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. The editor of The Oldie and former editor of Private Eye was unimpressed by the sequence, the Evening Standard reports.   &amp;quot;I think the Queen made a great mistake when she agreed to do that stunt with Daniel Craig,&amp;quot; Ingrams said. &amp;quot;What can she and her advisers have been thinking of? It was very undignified for an 86-year-old woman. &amp;quot;I noticed that when she appeared in the stadium she didn&amp;#039;t look amused. Quite right, too. She&amp;#039;d been taken for a ride.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;The whole thing was like a giant nativity play with everyone grabbing their bit of the limelight. There was that awful Mr Bean, who is symptomatic of what&amp;#039;s wrong with the country. &amp;quot;And those people in silly top hats and false beards. People around the world must have wondered what on earth was going on.&amp;quot;  London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony - photo gallery:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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