THE QUEEN
RICH AND POWERFUL - BUT IS SHE?
Our Queen, isn’t she great? Think of all the good she has done for our country. But does she actually do anything? Queen Elizabeth II is a constitutional monarch. This means that although she is officially the head of state, the country is actually run by the government, led by the prime minister. So why do we have a Queen. What is the point in having a Queen?
Some people believe she doesn’t do anything. She doesn’t even have a say on new laws, only the parliament does. She must agree on them because a Queen hasn’t denied a new law in 500 years.
WHERE DOES THE QUEEN GET HER MONEY?
The Queen gets (not earns) £36.7m a year. That money comes out of our taxes!! The money is used to cover her and Prince Philip’s expenses. The remainder of the money is paid to the Royal Family.
The Queen also owns large amounts of property privately that have never been valued, including Sandringham House, Balmoral Castle, (which are worth £160 million) and the Castle of Mey. As I understand it, she is a very rich lady, so why does she need to get our money through tax? Surely there must be another way.
The Queen is a very important figure of England; her head bears on millions of stamps, she brings in lots of tourism which brings in lots of money. Tours go all around the grounds and rooms of many of her houses. She gets lots of money through the interesting places where the queen lives. Her country would be a lot better off if she stopped the taxes and earnt her own money.
A TYPICAL DAY OF THE QUEEN
8:00 – One wakes herself up and ones servant runs the bath. Another servant takes the temperature of the bath and gets my agreement. One washes with the lavender essence from the meadows of china. (Only £2.000 per piece.)
9.00 – My servant dresses me in my pure silk dress from India; that my clothes supervisor has suggested.
9.30 – One enjoys a lovely breakfast of: quail’s egg, bacon from the finest pigs in Turkey and bread from the factories of Hovis. My 791 best chefs prepare and cook enough food for 500 people, yet there is only me eating it.
10.30 – One walks ones corgi’s around the estate of which I own. Ones 500 gardeners take care of every acre. Usually one gets a golf buggy because one gets very tired.
12.00 – One dines with ones family for dinner and one has the rarest pandas in Japan, covered in a delicious black rhino sauce.
1.00 –One has thy private jet and one has a tour of Australia.
2.00 – One has afternoon tea and scones and watches the horse races. One enjoys a good race.
5.00 – One has ones supper with oneself and enjoys Squid and allocate. For ones pudding one eats crème brulee with the finest ice cream of the land.
6.00 – One dresses in ones silk pyjamas and goes to bed, for one has an exhausting day working very hard at the office doing absolutely nothing for England.
This article was written by Thomas Casburn
