Aussie hockey star re-lives the moment the Queen smiled as she PHOTO-BOMBED her snap with a teammate: ‘What an incredible woman’
- Hockeyroo Jayde Taylor has relived her infamous snap photo-bombed by the Queen
- The 37-year-old helped the Aussie side take out gold at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth games
- The cracking snap received 11,000 retweets in the space of 24 hours
Hockeyroo Jayde Taylor will forever remember the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games where Australia took gold – yet an infamous photo-bomb by the Queen in a snap with her teammate stole the headlines.
Next to teammate Brooke Peris, Taylor had to take a second look at her snap as she found the smirking smile of her majesty fixated in the background.
The Queen infamously photo-bombed Hockeyroos Jayde Taylor and Brooke Peris at the 2014 Glasgow games – which went viral in 24 hours
The photo became an instant hit on social media, where she posted it on her Twitter account – it received 11,000 retweets in the space of 24 hours.
The Hockeyroos triumphed in a thrilling shootout over England in the 2014 final, with Peris and Taylor two key reasons behind Australia’s success.
The duo then featured on Good Morning America, BBC and The Times, Britain’s leading newspaper.
Taylor flicks the hockey ball through Ellie Watton of England during day 10 of the 2014 Glasgow games where the Hockeyroos won gold
Taylor’s happy snap with a side of royalty was even featured in a official book made for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
‘I love it, I think it’s great, and I still get retweets now,’ Taylor told the West Australian.
‘It was so unexpected and unplanned, and it’s still such a blur. It turned into this huge thing, and we had to handle it carefully because it was at the start of the tournament, and there was so much excitement and hype around it when it happened.
It brought some beautiful emotions around the whole tournament and our team, so we had 24 hours to revel in it, and then we had to contain it to get back to the task at hand and win the gold medal. But it was pretty wild.
She just smiled and looked and nodded … what an incredible woman.’
Brooke Peris (far right) reacts to the Hockeyroos 1-0 loss to India in the quarterfinal match of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
The 37-year-old played 107 games for the Hockeyroos and helped the Australian woman secure their fourth games title in 2014, but joked her photobomb with the Queen blew up interest in her career.
Taylor also represented the Hockeyroos in the 2012 London Olympics, where the side failed to medal with a disappointing fifth place.
The West Australian has since reposted the coincidental snap to her Instagram story with the caption ‘QEII’.
Taylor originally posted the image in July 2014 with the caption ‘Aaaah the Queen photo-bombed our selfie @brookeperis3’.
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