In 1958, the magazine was sold to Jocelyn Stevens, who dropped the prefix "The" and used it as his vehicle to represent the younger side of the British Establishment, sometimes referred to as the "Chelsea Set", under the editorial direction of Beatrix Miller.

According to Clement Freud, who wrote for the magazine, Beatrix Miller's targeted reader had long hair, was named "Caroline", had left school at age 16, was not an intellectual, but she was the sort of person that one ended up in bed with.

Queen was celebrated in this period for its society column "Jennifer's Diary" (written by Betty Kenward), its astrologer "Celeste", a variety of edgy writers, and elaborate fashion photography, in particular David Bailey’s pictures of Twiggy.

Elizabeth Smart, author of the prose-poetry classic By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, was Queen's books editor and columnist, and wrote all the fashion copy for two years in the 1960s.

Johnson resigned to write The World Atlas of Wine and Lewis sold Queen to Harper's Bazaar, who merged the titles, continuing to print it on Oxley presses.