The cartoonists who best captured the Queen There will undoubtedly be bigger and more reverential events to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. But none, I suspect, will prove more entertaining than Her Maj at the delightful Cartoon Museum in Bloomsbury, which is offering 60 years of unofficial portraits of the Queen and the rest of the Royal family as they appeared in the British press. The cartoonists range from Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator E. H. Shepard, with his coy, cloying drawing of cute little fairies wishing the then Princess Elizabeth health, happiness and prosperity on her 21st birthday, to far harsher caricatures by the likes of Ralph Steadman and Spitting Image creators Fluck and Law. But even in the knockabout world of cartoons, the great majority of the exhibits seem to convey affection for the monarch who has reigned over us for so long - though the likes of Princess Margaret, Sarah Ferguson and Prince Edward escape less lightly. It's also fascinating to see the early deference of the cartoonists at the start of her reign giving way to far more pointed comedy. There is a particularly potent and poignant cartoon by the great Daily Telegraph political cartoonist Nicholas Garland which appeared in 1992 at the time of the lurid revelations about the troubled relationship of the Prince and Princess of Wales. It shows the Royal family hiding fearfully behind pampas grass like nervous wild animals with the caption "Endangered Species?" But the Queen survived her annus horribilis - brilliantly translated by the Sun for those few of its readers without Latin as "one's bum year" - and also the great wave of intemperate grief and resentment that followed Diana's death when the monarchy seemed briefly to wobble. The cartoonist Trog (Wally Fawkes) seems to me to have captured the Queen best over the decades. I particularly liked his picture of her enjoying a blissful snooze at a Royal Variety Performance (she has never been noted for her love of the theatre, preferring instead the drama of horse racing) and there is also a delightfully affectionate Trog cartoon of her pulling a pint behind a bar in which Her Majesty is presented as a kindly, smiling pub landlady to the nation. God bless her. 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen is at the Cartoon Museum until 8 April