Word: queenly
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Furthermore, various government departments spend $7,500,000 yearly on such queenly perquisites as the royal yacht ($2,097,500), air travel ($1,750,000) and stationery ($115,000). Beyond that, the Queen-clearly one of the world's wealthiest women-has a vast inherited private income...
What the Blazes. In arguing for the raise, sympathetic M.P.s made the point that the Queen performs her extensive state duties with skill, dignity and without the slightest hint of indiscretion. "The total cost of all aspects of the monarchy." said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, "does not much exceed the cost of the embassy in Washington." Some Laborites, however, objected to voting the increase at a time when nearly 1,000,000 Britons are out of work and the government is trying to hold union wage demands to 5%. Mainly, the dissenters concentrated their fire on the raises...
What galled some opposition M.P.s about the raise was that the Queen's allowance, which is paid from the "civil list" and is intended to defray her official expenditures, represents only a small portion of her total income, none of which is taxed. In addition to the allowance, she has the use of the "privy purse," about $750,000 a year in revenues from the Duchy of Lancaster, lands that Henry III seized from two rebellious barons in 1265. This revenue pays for the Queen's personal expenditures as head of state, including clothing (about $75,000 worth...
Fiery Labor M.P. William Hamilton was particularly appalled by the increase for the Queen Mother, who has a staff of 33, including five ladies of the bedchamber and eleven women of the bedchamber. "What the blazes do they do?" he asked. "What size bedchamber is this?" Hamilton may have gone too far in bluntly describing Princess Margaret as "this expensive kept woman." Snapped a Conservative M.P.: "This is an obscene speech." Perhaps so, but many Britons share the concern of a Labor M.P. who wondered how the government can afford raises for the royal family...
...little for Ballerina Natalia Malcarova, 30, who defected from Russia last year and joined the American Ballet Theater. She won a fiancé, Vladimir Rodzianko, who had helped her defect and left his wife and two children to be her manager. But she lost the chance to dance before Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Ballet's gala when she tore a muscle in her thigh...