Keeping up with the Windsors

Wages, pensions, assets and investments are seldom good enough

Contra Costa Times/Lifestyles/Tony Hicks, 1/30/14.  "Queen Elizabeth's household is on a budget now, too." 

"If you visit England anytime soon and see a lady on a street corner holding an upside down crown, toss in some change. She may need it.  ....  The Queen's reserve fund has fallen from £35million ($58 million) in 2001 to just £1million ($1.6 million) in 2014.

....  According to the report, royal staff members have been forced to catch rain in buckets to protect art and antiquities in some locations. Queen Elizabeth II's “antiquated” boilers are more than 60 years old."   Read article.

Related -  Yahoo Answers/Paco, "What is Queen Elizabeth's last name?"  The complete answer is actually very complicated. The simple answer is that the Queen has no last name, but she is from the "House of Windsor". Phillip's last name was officially "Mountbatten" for a few years when he was in his late 20's and early 30's, but currently as a prince he does not have a last name."  Weekly World News, "Queen Elizabeth sells her Bloomers", 5/22/12.  Note:  photograph from International Business Times, 5/14/12.  "Queen Elizabeth's Madame Tussauds Waxwork gets 150,000 pounds makeover to celebrate Diamond Jubilee."

Posted by Kathy Meeh