Queen Elizabeth II is magazine cover star in Leibovitz photo

[Image via Vanity Fair]The exclusive cover was shot for Vanity Fair by Annie Leibovitz to commemorate the Queen’s 90th birthday.

Others released last month sees her walking the dogs, as well as posing with her grand-children and great-grandchildren.

Sitting on a rug in the grounds of Windsor Castle, the Queen was photographed with her corgis, Willow and Holly, and dorgis, Candy and Vulcan.

Leibovitz also photographed the monarch for a series of official portraits in 2007, when she famously asked the Queen to remove her tiara to look “less dressy”.

The photos have been featured in Vanity Fair, and show the 90-year-old monarch sat relaxed in intimate portraits.

This photograph will also appear in the magazine, that will be released on Friday.

The Queen has landed a starring role in the latest issue of Vanity Fair – by appearing as its cover girl for the second time.

She has overseen a royal corgi breeding program at the castle since 1949, though it was reportedly discontinued following her mother’s death in 2002.

The revelation came from Annie Leibovitz who handled Queen Elizabeth’s recent photoshoots to commemorate the royal queen’s 90th birthday.

Exactly nine years ago, she posed again.

“You get the sense of how at peace she was with herself, and very much enthralled with her family”, Annie Leibovitz, a celebrity photographer who took the pictures, was quoted by Vanity Fair as saying. Leibovitz explained that she sought to photograph the iconic woman in her element for the special spread.

She is pictured as most of her subjects might imagine her – surrounded by her beloved dogs, at home in her garden at Windsor Castle.