Card 1 A job for life.
Elizabeth II calls the Windsor family a ”Firm”. She thinks of it as a business rather than a family. And the main business of the royal family is… well, probably being royal. And they are paid for it. The Queen is one of the richest women in the world and yet she gets about 8 million pounds a year to be queen. But many people agree that she does her job well and she deserves her salary. Every summer the Queen gives three or more royal garden parties at BuckinghamPalace. About 8000 guests come to each party. They drink about 27000 cups of tea and eat 20000 sandwiches and 20000 pieces of cake
Card 2
As Head of State, the Queen maintains close contact with the Prime Minister, with whom she has a weekly audience when she is in London, and with other Ministers of the Crown. The Queen sees, separately, two of her Private Secretaries with the daily quota of official paperwork. This process takes more then of an hour.
Card3 Working day.
The Queen begins her ordinary working day by scanning the daily British newspaper.
Every day, about 300 letters from the public arrive, and are taken to her desk unopened. The Queen chooses a selection to read herself and tells her staff how she would like them to be answered. This enables the Queen to see personally a typical cross-section of her daily correspondence. Virtually every letter is answered by staff in her Private Secretary's office. Every day of every year wherever she is, The Queen receives from government ministers, and from her representatives in the Commonwealth and foreign countries, information in the form of policy papers. Cabinet documents, telegrams, letters and other State papers. These are sent up to her by the Private Secretaries in the famous ‘red boxes’. All of these papers have to be read and where necessary, approved and sighed.
. Card 4
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The Queen summons and dissolves Parliament; as a rule she opens the new session with a speech from the Throne and she must give Royal assent before a bill becomes law.The State Opening of Parliament happens in the first week of November. On that day Her Majesty in her Crown Jewels or the royal regalia from the tower of London travels from BuckinghamPalace to Westminster in the State Coach. In Parliament in the House of Lords she makes a speech to all of Britain’s Mps and Lords about the government’s plans for the next year. The Queen doesn’t write it. She only reads out what the Prime Minister’s staff write for her.
Card 6. Jubilee
The Golden jubilee weekend began on Saturday evening with the first concert ever held in the gardens of BuckinghamPalace. The Royal family and 12,000 people who had been lucky to get the tickets were enjoying classical musical and outside the palace more than 40,000 people watched the concert broadcast on huge screens around the gates and in nearby parks. At the end of the concert the whole audience stood and turned towards the Queen to sing God Save the Queen.