''' *THE QUEEN'S BLACK HANDBAG* '''
*HER SIMPLE HANDBAG* : THE QUEEN reportedly uses her purse to send secret signals to her staff.
*Queen Elizabeth II is rarely seen without a bag*.
A report in the Telegraph says that the Queen uses the placement of her bag to signal her staff about her needs.
The
report also reveals what's inside her purse, including lipstick, a
compact mirror and cash for church donations, plus family photos and
trinkets.
Whenever Queen Elizabeth II appears
in public, she wears trusty accessories: A whimsical hat and a simple
handbag. Most everyone recognizes her simple black purses-
But few know that the Queen actually uses them to send signals to her staff, according to a new report on the telegraph.
It's
a simple system that can help her gracefully exit any uncomfortable
situations: If the Queen is at a dinner and places her handbag on the
table, the Telegraph reports, her staff knows that she wants the event
to end in the next five minutes.
And if she puts the bag on the floor, it signals that she likes to be rescued from her current conversation.
The item she carries inside her many purses -she's said to own over 200 Launer
handbags, one of her favorite brands -have also remained mysterious,
but the Telegraph cited a few insiders who claimed to know its
contents.
The majority of of the Queen's items are carried by her ladies-in-waiting.
But
the Queen does carry a compact mirror and lipstick, one royal
biographer told the Telegraph, and paparazzi cameras occasionally
catch her reapplying the product, as one photo from 2011:
Sally Bedell Smith, author of Elizabeth The Queen :
The
Woman Behind The Throne, said that the Queen also carries ''reading
glasses, mint lozenges, and a fountain pen'', as well as a ''precisely
folded Pound 5 or Pound 10 note ''for church collection on Sundays.
Elizabeth also stashes a hook that suctions to the bottom of a table and holds her purse safely off the ground.
One
person who attended a dinner with the Queen said that she saw the
monarch ''discreetly'' spit in the in the hook's suction cup before
attaching it to the bottom of the table.
*It's nice to know even monarchs have a little trouble making suction cups stick*.
Royal Biographer Penny Junor also speculated that the Queen's handbag might contain a cell phone.
''She does have a mobile and she speaks to her grandchildren on it,'' Junir told the Telegraph. ''I don't know whether it's a *smartphone* though.''
Finally, the queen seems to carry around number of personal items. The Telegraph cites Phil Dampier, author of What's In The Queen's Handbag & Other Royal Secrets-
Who
wrote that the Queen's purse contains family photos and trinkets from
her grandchildren, including ''miniature dogs, horses and saddles.''
What
really set the Queen apart from commoners is what she doesn't carry in
her purse. She doesn't have a passport or keys, and has no real need
to carry around cash or credit cards.
And, of course, not every woman can be saved from dull small talk by a simple repositioning of her purse.
*That's a pretty sweet royal advantage.'' True! And !WOW! thanks Daily Times Monitor.
And
then, strictly, in the context of Purses & Money, very much
in London the *Royal Bank Of England* is rising from ruins as a shadow
of former self:
Nine years after the beginning
of a 45-billion pound bailout by the British government, Royal Bank
of England is emerging from its restructuring process a shadow of what
was once the *biggest lender in the world*.
RBS
has a balance sheet of *2.4 trillion pounds* in 2008 -almost double
Britain's annual economic output at the time -having staged a
meteoric rise from being a small Scottish lender in the early 1990s.
Since
the bailout it has offloaded billions of pounds of assets a week, as it
tries to shrink down to being a simple UK-focused lender.
Later this year RBS will shut its Capital Resolution division, which has sold off large chunks of its huge stockpile of unwanted assets.
The
closure will mark a milestone in the bank's road to recovery, with its
balance sheet around 1.6 trillion pounds lighter than when its
great sell-off began.
''For the first time in a long time there is a distinction between yesterday and and tomorrow,''
Mark Bailie , who runs the unit told Reuters in an interview at the
lender's ultra modern-glass-and-steel office in London financial
district.
With most respectful dedication to *Her Royal Highness: Queen Elizabeth II* and the entire Royal Family, and all subjects.
The World Students Hopes to have the esteemed honor of welcoming you all, on !WOW! and Twitter-!E-WOW! -the ecosystem 2011:
'''Royals - !WOW! '''
Good Night and God Bless
SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless
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