What's in the Queens Handbag?

Well, yesterday's post on the Queen produced some speculation.

Allow me to address the salient question as to what actually is in Queen Elizabeth's handbag.

On good authority she carries a make-up kit (compact), a pair of reading glasses, a small box of tissues, some pepper mint candies to feed to the corgis, a fountain pen plus notebook and a small album of family photos.

An added accessory is a small, carved metal hook from which she suspends her bag while formally seated at the dining table.
It would never do to have the monarch searching around for her bag somewhere on the floor.

Also the bag is used for cryptic signals to her her staff.

 When her bag is placed on the table in the afternoon it is an unspoken instruction that tea should be served in five minutes.
The bag, shifted from right to left hand means that she is getting bored with conversation and it is time for the next visitor to be introduced. When the bag swings leisurely from the crook of her right arm she is enjoying the moment and does not mind if it is prolonged.

When it is lifted from the table hook, the meal is over.

I was wrong on my statement that the Queen carries no cash. Every Sunday she carries a neatly folded banknote (of unknown denomination) for the offering plate at church service.

Therein lies another example to her subjects;  go to church and give to God.

Jubilate.

Ian