New York, December 17 : Queen Elizabeth has reportedly set yet another example to beat the economic slump by asking her staff to turn off the lights in empty rooms of Buckingham Palace.
According to British news outlets, the monarch is to continue her efforts to show support through recession and had allegedly ordered chefs to reuse leftovers from banquets.
The Royal had previously urged her grandsons to avoid any public displays of extravagance amid growing unemployment and economic strife, reports the New York Post.
London, November 28: Queen Elizabeth II is apparently frustrated about Britain’s economic woes, for she has vowed to eschew all public displays of extravagance, and urged other members of the Royal Family to follow suit.
Her own market investments are said to have plunged by an incredible 37million pounds.
Her Majesty reportedly reduced the expenditure on her State visit to Slovenia and Slovakia last month by making clothes out of recycled material.
London - Britain's Queen Elizabeth 2 luxury liner, which is to be turned into a floating hotel in Dubai, set sail for its final voyage as a cruise ship Tuesday.
The famous QE2 left its home port of Southampton, in southern Britain, to a blaze of fireworks and the cheers of thousands Tuesday evening after 40 years of service.
Hours before its departure, the vessel had to be refloated after running into a sandbank off Southampton.
Cork, Ireland - The departure of the Queen Elizabeth 2 from Southampton on November 11 marks the end of an era which will see the last of the great ocean liners sail through the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal en route to her final resting place in Dubai.
From November 27, Cunard's longest-serving liner and flagship will become a floating "hotel, retail and entertainment destination" at the Palm Jumeirah, the enormous palm-shaped artificial island currently being developed as a complex of tourist hotels and apartments, also by Dubai World from 2009.
London - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who was Wednesday given an academic briefing on the origins of the credit crunch, wound up the "lesson" with the searching question of why nobody had seen the crisis coming.
The 82-year-old monarch had the complexities of the current global financial crisis explained to her during the inauguration of a new building at the renowned London School of Economics (LSE).
London - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was "delighted" to have been received by Queen Elizabeth II during a flying visit to London Thursday.
Merkel said she had told the British monarch during their private meeting in Buckingham Palace that Germany had "every interest in seeing the UK as a close partner and friend."
She had also made clear that she was "delighted that the UK was part and parcel of the EU," Merkel told journalists after the audience.
New York, December 17 : Queen Elizabeth has reportedly set yet another example to beat the economic slump by asking her staff to turn off the lights in empty rooms of Buckingham Palace.
London, November 28: Queen Elizabeth II is apparently frustrated about Britain’s economic woes, for she has vowed to eschew all public displays of extravagance, and urged other members of the Royal Family to follow suit.
London - Britain's Queen Elizabeth 2 luxury liner, which is to be turned into a floating hotel in Dubai, set sail for its final voyage as a cruise ship Tuesday.
London - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who was Wednesday given an academic briefing on the origins of the credit crunch, wound up the "lesson" with the searching question of why nobody had seen the crisis coming.
London - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was "delighted" to have been received by Queen Elizabeth II during a flying visit to London Thursday.
