Contents of Queen's Handbag?
NewNom
handbag - with no definitive answer. It's come to my attention that the
question was addressed by The Straight Dope, a long-running syndicated column
that
answers the great trivia questions of our day. Cecil Adams, the column's
putative scribe, went first to the British Embassy - no joy. He then called
Buckingham Palace, where a press aide told him the bag contained "items of a
personal nature, but not money...what you'd expect to find in a woman's purse."
Baffled by this stonewalling, Cecil fell back on the notion of puppy biscuits
for the corgis. A reader of the column came to the rescue with the following
from Majesty Magazine, which listed the contents as "a comb, a handkerchief, a
small gold compact, and a tube of lipstick" plus - on Sundays - a folded note
for the collection plate.
This very well-informed SD reader went on to say that the Queen uses the
handbag as a sort of security blanket, carrying it from room to room throughout
her day *even within Buckingham Palace*, and that all tables and desks at the
royal residences have special hooks to hold the handbag.
Not exactly the definitve answer, but the best we've seen yet, IMO. Susan T.,
make a note for future FAQs!
Quotes taken from _Return of The Straight Dope_, by Cecil Adams, Ballantine
Books, 1994.
Peggy
Col
NewNom <new...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >
> This very well-informed SD reader went on to say that the Queen uses the
> handbag as a sort of security blanket, carrying it from room to room
throughout
> her day *even within Buckingham Palace*, and that all tables and desks at the
> royal residences have special hooks to hold the handbag.
>
Can the Queen not simply put her handbag down on
the table like anybody else?
Col
--
Our minds are remarkably similar,
Except you happen to be insane.
RCLOVELY
>Can the Queen not simply put her handbag down on
>the table like anybody else?
Can the Queen have hooks installed in her home where she wants them?
RC
Boffman
>for the collection plate.
>
I happen to know that the note reads "Yeah, right."
She also keeps another "note" in her purse which reads "I am the Queen. Really,
I am. If lost, please return me to the Palace."
Martha Tassi
> NewNom <new...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > This very well-informed SD reader went on to say that the Queen uses the
> > handbag as a sort of security blanket, carrying it from room to room throughout
> > her day *even within Buckingham Palace*, and that all tables and desks at the
> > royal residences have special hooks to hold the handbag.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if restaurant tables had hooks for handbags!
-v
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Some restaurants have upholstered stools just for that purpose.
-Martha
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Serge
This particular conundrum was addressed back in April.
I have retrieved the relevant post from Deja.com and reproduce it here for
your edification.
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> Subject: Puzzling
> From: "Serge" <serg...@one.net.au>
> Date: 2000/04/14
> Newsgroups: alt.gossip.royalty
> What's with the Queen's handbag?
>
> She never ventures from home without it.
> It just doesn't make any sense, what on earth could she possibly have in
> there?
> She has a swarm of minions around her to bung on the odd bit of lipy, or
> brush the dead cat nailed to the top of her head, so we can rule out those
> sorts of things.
> Cash, Credit Cards?
> Not likely, doesn't need them, she's had her snout in the public purse
since
> birth.
> Menstrual gadgetry?
> You know, the sort of thing at the top of Charles' wish list.
> At her age! That's plainly ludicrous.
> An incontinence nappy perhaps, but she'd have difficulty jamming it in.
> Wouldn't do if there were bits sticking out.
> A small book of cryptic crossword puzzles?
> To help wile away the odd free nanosecond in her exhausting schedule.
> No, just as ludicrous, hasn't got the intellect.
> I must say it's all very puzzling.
>
> I'm just thinking out aloud here . . .
>
> - Surely she's not carrying an empty handbag around for the hell of it . .
.
> - She's always walking around like she's got a bloody bad smell under her
> nose . . .
> - She'd obviously have an aversion to using toilets that weren't her own.
I
> mean she wouldn't just plonk the royal buttocks on any old . . . . . . . .
.
> . .
>
> W A I T A M I N U T E ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
>
>
>
> No, hang on, that can't be, her shit doesn't smell.
>
> Christ that's a relief (no pun intended)
>
> Serge.
>
>
> I wonder if the Queen reads these posts?
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