Today’s post comes from Barbara from Rivertown:
Drawing on our recent discussion of what it’s like to be Royal, I wonder if part of the fun might be owning stuff no one else owns, and having the power to give things away if one was so inclined.
I happened on this article listing 31 unexpected things owned by HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
They are as follows:
1. All the swans on the River Thames
2. A pair of corgis
3. All the Dolphins in the United Kingdom
4. Nearly all of London’s Regent Street
5. Half of the UK’s shoreline
6. Six royal residences
7. More than 200 Launer handbags
8. A private ATM
9. The best seat in the house at Wimbledon
10. The Tower of London
11. 150,000 works of art (many of them priceless)
12. Queen Victoria’s Sketchbook
13. A winning team of race horses
14. A car collection worth more than $10 million
15. A tiara covered in 1333 diamonds
16. A massive Faberge Collection
17. Westminster Abbey
18. Hyde Park [et al.]
19. A Gold Record
20. A bat colony
21. The world’s largest clear-cut diamond
22. Three Crown Dependencies
23. An Aberdeen Angus Cow
24. Two tortoises from the Seychelles
25. Her own flag
26. Four Guinness World Records
27. A bold Blue Peter badge
28. The British seabed
29. An offshore wind farm
30. The UK’s Continental Shelf
31. All of Scotland’s gold mines
32. 25,000 Acres of forest
33. Trafalgar Square
34. Queen Victoria’s wedding dress
35. Henry VIII’s armor
36. Queen Elizabeth II’s own tartan
37. Millions of square feet of retail space
38. A baptismal font
39. A national collection of Mulberries
The game is:
The Queen has decided it’s time to “lighten up”, and will give each of you one (or more) of these gifts.
Which of these items would you most like to have?