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Queen Camilla's cheeky six-word response as she's presented with Barbie of herself

Queen Camilla cracked a joke as she was presented with the doll by Mattel, the manufacturer of Barbie, as she hosted a Women of the World event at Buckingham Palace

Giving a speech to mark International Women's Day on 8 March, Camilla said: "I would like to begin with a "show and tell," before holding up two stones which were thrown through the Palace windows during a Suffragette protest on 27th May 1914. Dame Helen Mirren was in attendance (Image: Getty)She added her own words of encouragement: "To which I would only add: let your lives be the stones that will shatter glass ceilings everywhere and inspire generations to come." The Queen was presented with the doll (Image: PA)She continued: "As a young girl in England I'm sure she never in a million years imagined that this would be where she would find herself and it looks to me as if she's doing it beautifully well."

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