In the 2015 film Minions, which British monarch owns the crown Scarlet Overkill tries to steal?

In the 2015 film Minions, Queen Elizabeth II owns the crown Scarlet Overkill tries to steal.

Scarlet Overkill recruits Kevin, Stuart, and Bob after meeting them at Villain-Con in 1968. She sends the Minions to steal the British crown, hoping to become the Queen of England herself.

The crown heist leads to one of the film’s central comic sequences. The Minions enter the Tower of London, but their plan goes wrong when they accidentally remove the crown from Queen Elizabeth II. In the movie’s fictional version of events, the Queen later reclaims the throne after the Minions’ chaotic intervention.

This detail is sometimes confused with the film’s historical setting or with Scarlet’s husband, Herb Overkill. The monarch involved is Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned from 1952 until 2022. The animated story uses real British royal imagery while placing the characters in an invented comic adventure.