. >> it is difficult to believe we're talking about queen elizabeth ii and the duke of edinburgh. they have been the subject of thousands of portraits and here is one more. our will correspondent has been taking a look. -- royal correspondent has been taking a look. >> through the nearly 60 years of her reign, she has become the most visually depicted person in history. her image captured in photographs and paintings which have often caused a stir. >> this is the portrait of the queen. this is said to have been given pride of place over a similar portrait of her majesty. >> now many of the most memorable images of the queen have been brought together in an exhibition of the scottish national gallery in edinburgh. here are many of the celebrated images. beaton's coronation day photograph and a portrait in 1969. in complete contrast, the sex whichs' record cover caused widespread events. -- defen offense. the images begin within his photograph in 1952 when elizabeth returned to britain knowing that she was not clean. >> i found that this is a tender moment. in terms of conveying any

it is queen, queen elizabeth and the duke of edinburgh. they've been the subject of thousands of portraits. it's spanning the sixth decade of the queen's reign and nicholas has been taking a look. >> her ma jestity was received by the theater manager. >> it's been said that over the nearly 60 years of her reign she's been the most visually depicted person. her image captured in thousands of photographs and in paintings which have caused a stir. >> this one by petro and negony. >> now one of the most memorable images of the queen have been brought together in the scottish museum. >> their second portrait painted in 1969. in complete contrast, the six pistols record cover which caused widespread offense and in more recent development a three die mention nalhol gram from -- dimensional hol gram. >> i find this is such a tender moment and how incredibly immediate it is in terms of conveying the -- the intensity of her predict y. other memorable images include these from the pop artist andy war hol. and from the 1990's a news photograph of the

. -- the queen of edinburgh is 90 years old today. he has been speaking to us.ruxnof as he turned 90 -- >> ae turned 90, the duke is the longest service -- the longest serving concert. >> you have to recognize what the nitsch was -- a teenagniche. it was unprecedented. >> when he was first married, prince philip and princess elizabeth were able to leave a version of the ordinary life. he was a dashing military officer living with his young wife. after she came to the throne in 1962, his military career was over. but he has no time for regrets. is it something you would have liked to continue? >> that is hypothetical. >> it is, but i am asking the question. >> no answer. [laughter] >> you must have thought of that. let me put it another way. was it difficult to give up? >> i could have perfectly will go on with it as a career. it would have been of greater value to the queen when she became queen eventually to have somebody who was professionally qualified in something, not just traipsing around >> charitable work quickly became his work. >> would you describe yo

baltimore youths will take part in the duke of edinburgh's award young americans challenge. development program is designed to help build confidence and self worth in youths in the ages of 14 and 25. miss america 2011 will be joining chris edwards for the visit. -- prince edward for the visit. >> the chargers got back to the 90-degree mark today. it will -- temperatures got back to the 90-degree mark to a to day.o -- today. today was a little bit below the record. the pollen count is still a factor in the atmosphere around here. tree pollen is up. there were some range are just west of us and the thunderstorms, -- there were storms just west of us and thunderstorms, too. overall, a clear-to-partly cloudy sky with warm temperatures. it is 73 degrees at ease in. it is still 78 degrees at the coast at ocean city. 65 degrees are the coolest various north and west of town. the stage is set for scorcher tomorrow afternoon. that is why there is a heat advisory from harford county down through the shore and back to frederick county. technically, cecil county is between these areas.

reporter: today the royal family attended a thanksgiving service in windsor to honor the duke of edinburgh's 90th birthday. another brief sighting of the duchess of cambridge at that event quickly turned to headlines. her fashion closely scrutinized. >> there really is only one person that stole the show. that would have to be, of course, the duchess of cambridge, kate. for the simple fact she's the star in the crown jewel. everyone wants to know what she's wearing, what she's thinking, what she's looking like. >> reporter: in a weekend filled with royal milestones, princess catherine, to her admirers, was catherine the great. chapman bell, nbc news, london. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. brian williams will be here tomorrow. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, goodnight.

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he's currently studying at the university of edinburgh.last five years he was interested in doing this online experiment, trying to push the boundaries between truth and fiction. it just grew and grew and grew. now we have amina essentially fooling everyone who had followed her up to this point. >> i know you have dissected this guy sort of inside out. his execution was poor and his intentions were good. i listened to the interview. i also read part of the mea culpa on the blog. my intentions were good. i got carried away. i owe apologies to those i hurt and will do all in my power to make things right. i only wanted to set forth real information through the use of artfully crafted fiction. i was too successful and too caught up in what i was doing. i ignored the consequences of my action. here's my question to you. his intentions really were to imli illuminate the story of the syrians for a western audience. do you think at all he missed the point given the fact that syria, let's be honest, not always above the fold? >> i think that is an

writing the blog, which is a guy called tom mcmaster, who's an american graduate student studying in edinburghn to istanbul and sort of as an away notice he has her kidnapped in the blog. >> that has so many of us worried, i remember. a lot of us had been following her story. all of the sudden she gets kidnapped. i remember, we even reported, many of us did, she's missing and what's happened to her. >> that's because he was going on vacation, he wanted to put it on hold for a little while. >> from what i read he doesn't believe he harmed anyone. he thought he was helping the cause. >> a lot of people were impressed with what he wrote. he was writing -- he showed that he did have a knowledge of the gay and lesbian seen in the middle east, if you like. in fact, some of his postings were actually reposted on gay and lesbian blogs in the middle east. he says he did it as a challenge to write in that voice. and he said there was a lot of vanity involved as well. he said if he'd written these things as an american male, no one would have listened. he thought i'll put it in this character. it became