 In June 2014, Queen Elizabeth II visited the Belfast set of "Game of Thrones" and was photographed examining the Iron Throne set piece from the series, though she declined to sit on it.Though Martin had previously stated that the HBO version of the Iron Throne did not match his idea of how it should appear ideally, in 2013 he called its design "terrific" and claimed to own all of the merchandised replicas.He added