Mr Ibrahim said he has met the Queen three times and ‘loves her’ (Picture: SWNS)

No, this snap of a kebab shop in east London really hasn’t been Photoshopped.

The owner of The Queen simply loves the British monarch so much that he wanted to strip the design of his old restaurant and create a new, more regal, aesthetic.

Hussein Ibrahim, 42, owned a food outlet called Petra for four years before deciding that it just didn’t quite reflect his love of Her Majesty.

Mr Ibrahim told the Waltham Forest Guardian: ‘I love the Queen and what she’s done for every single person in this country. ‘This is her land and she deserves to have everybody to come here to salute her.


How the store on Chingford Mount Road used to look before its facelift (Picture: Google)

However, the restaurant’s future is in jeopardy after a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said images of the royal family ‘should not be used for commercial endorsement’.



Located on Chingford Mount Road in Waltham Forest, the kebab shop – which also offers shisha pipes – has apparently become a bit of a local attraction.

Mr Ibrahim defended his decision to use the images and said that he hasn’t done anything wrong.

‘I didn’t put up funny images of the Queen. I didn’t do something silly to the pictures. I did something amazing which has cost me huge money,’ he said.

‘The time will come when they take me to the court and force me to take it down.

‘It’s a nice thing for the community because it’s completely different. Kids, people around here, everybody is talking about it in a nice way. When people come to take pictures it makes me happy.

‘I’m not going to post Tony Blair’s picture or Margaret Thatcher’s picture. It’s the Queen who has worked so hard to make every person in the world love the United Kingdom.’

Mr Ibrahim said he will put up more images of the Queen in the store’s interior and will even send her an invite for a meal.