Rihanna has caused a stir on social media by superimposing Queen Elizabeth's face onto her body.

Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth

The 'Work' hitmaker has edited existing photographs of her by replacing her face with the 91-year-old monarch's in a string of images, which have been shared on her Instagram account, and it is believed the sudden uploads were to celebrate the royal's birthday on Friday (21.04.17), although the Barbados-born singer has yet to reveal the reason behind her action.

One image of the Queen edited so it appears she is wearing a bright green ensemble, with matching knee-high boots, read: "be humble. (sic)."

Whilst another photoshopped image shows the Queen sporting a red fur heart Yves Saint Laurent jacket with denim shorts, black high heels, sunglasses, and a red hat.

The post was captioned with lyrics from Mariah Carey's 'It's Like That' song: "y'all chickens is ash and I'm lotion. (sic)."

The third image has been altered to impose the Queen's face onto Rihanna's body to make it appear she is wearing a crystal-encrusted Gucci ensemble, which the 29-year-old singer recently wore to the first weekend of Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival over the Easter weekend and is believed to have cost almost $10,000.

The brunette beauty wrote: "#gucci UPDATE: Mumz said she won't too happy bout this post so I had to edit *insert appropriate Gucci Mane lyrics here* (sic)."

And Rihanna's final post is of the Queen's face edited onto the vocalist's Paper magazine photoshoot, which sees the royal appear to go topless wearing only a pink two-piece skirt and blazer co-ord, whilst Rihanna's signature tattoos are on show.

The last upload read: "it's not that deep.(sic)."

Although some social media users find the comedy in the four uploads others have been quick to defend the royal.

One user wrote: "I'm not English or a Brit, but I find these series of photos disturbing. It's like doing it with photos of my grandmother. These lack taste whatsoever. (sic)."