Portrait takes pride of place in Fiona's office

Tony's version 
 
When Maroochydore Rotary handed back it’s Charter, a number of items were recovered and dispersed.
One such item was the print of the portrait of Queen Elizabeth 11 which was presented at the time of Maroochydore’s charter, by the Rotary Club of Chinchilla.
 
Photos enclosed show Past President David Woodrow presenting the framed print to Queensland member of Parliament Fiona Simpson MP, member for Maroochydore.  (Fiona Simpson is an Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Alexandra Headland and was a Rotary Youth Exchange Student in 1983 to Japan)
 
Is this the back story?
 
But there is a back story to this....there is a mysterious brass plate on the back of the portrait when it was donated to Chinchilla Rotary Club, thought to contain a secret coded message to certain Australian beau.
So "allegedly" (an important word) this portrait was created by a Chinchilla artist from a photo taken of Princess Elizabeth (as she was then) on a secret Royal visit to the Australian outback before she married Prince Phillip (RIP).
So the story goes that Elizabeth wanted a final "hen party" fling before she tied the royal knot with Philip...but the royal court explained that would be impossible with so much media attention on the beautiful princess.
However, a certain old royal flame, who had previously stolen Elizabeth's heart on a previous visit to the colony with his knowledge of physics and maths and portable sound systems invited Lizzie to Chinchilla where he assured her that the royal "we" could could let down her royal hair at a B&S Ball and no-one would be any the wiser.
So it came to pass that this portrait from a photo taken just before Princess Elizabeth went to the 1951 Chinchilla Bachelor and Spinsters Ball came into existence as a present to that handsome stranger of Chinchilla Rotary club.
Strange but true?? ....who knows because the very young and dapper beau from Queensland ... drank too much celebratory vino collapso that night and our beau had very little memory of that last night of freedom of our Monarch.
In the morning his princess was gone.... leaving only a royal glass slipper......
Its rumoured that he still has the royal slipper and is using it as a door stop in his shed.