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She greeted him with the words "Good evening, Mr Bond", then the pair apparently boarded a helicopter which flew across London to the stadium.

They parachuted down to the ground, but at the last moment - and in real-time - the Queen appeared in the arena to take her seat to cheers and applause.

The spokesman said the Queen was approached in 2011 asking if she would take part.

She was "very happy" to get involved and the sequences, directed by Danny Boyle, were filmed in March and April this year.

The director previously said the Queen had "made herself more accessible then ever before".

The scenes were filmed in the quadrangle, the Grand Entrance, the East Gallery, the Audience Room and the West Terrace, Buckingham Palace said.

They even starred her own dogs - including 13-year-old Monty, previously owned by the Queen Mother, nine-year-old Holly, and a third corgi, Willow.

The Queen wore a peach cocktail dress by Angela Kelly, and a peach headpiece with handmade porcelain flowers.

She has never acted on film before, though other members of the Royal Family have dabbled with the acting world - the Prince of Wales made a cameo appearance in an episode of ITV's Coronation Street in 2000, while the Duchess of Cornwall has appeared on The Archers on BBC Radio 4.

And while the Queen was said to have "immensely enjoyed" the experience, her role did not include parachuting out of the helicopter, nor climbing into it.

In the helicopter scene, she was played by Julia McKenzie, famed for portraying Miss Marple, while the two parachutists seen leaping from the helicopter were Gary Connery and Mark Sutton.

Mr Connery, who played the Queen, is a professional stuntman and base jumper, while Mr Sutton, who played Bond, started skydiving in 1992 while serving as an officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles.

Speaking on Saturday after the ceremony, Mr Connery said: "I think this one is probably unsurpassable. It will hang in my memory until I become senile and can't remember it any more.

"What an occasion, what a thing to be involved in, absolutely stunning."

He told Sky News he had been working on the project for several months, with an "amazing team on an amazing show".

"Over a period of several months I've been working with the helicopter team and with the ground crew and examining where it is we can land and examining wind conditions and how that would affect what heights we would go out of and which directions we would approach from.

"And over a period of time at various airfields we have been doing training jumps and then ultimately in the last two or three weeks we have been bringing it to the stadium to test jump there."

He said he "thoroughly enjoyed getting dressed up".

Mr Connery, who admitted he was nervous beforehand, said he and Mr Sutton - who also jumped with him on his record-breaking jump - had a "tight" landing on a bridge.

"We landed on one of the bridges so part of our training had been landing on the various bridges and so it was quite a tight landing but that's what we do, it's professional, so I hope that everybody thought that they got the right people in for the job."

The Queen is known for her sharp sense of humour and probably relished the chance to remain true to her office - regal and stately - yet send herself up.

It was a rare public glimpse of the private woman, who regularly uses a joke to put nervous guests at ease.

The Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said the Queen has been to two James Bond premieres - Die Another Day in 2002 and Casino Royale in 2006, while she visited the James Bond set at Pinewood Studios in 2007.

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London 2012: Queen delighted with James Bond role in opening ceremony

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She greeted him with the words "Good evening, Mr Bond", then the pair apparently boarded a helicopter which flew across London to the stadium. They parachuted down to the ground, but at the last moment - and in real-time - the Queen appeared in the arena to take her seat to cheers and applause.