The queens handbag (lighthearted)

LauraNorderr

Photo ID aka postage stamp.

Took me a minute but I got there! ??

Lemongrove
Personal choice.? Does there have to be a reason?

She probably carries a stress ball in it now! Poor woman.

Smelling salts.
My mum always had them in her bag, along with a clean hanky.

Werthers originals and an I-phone ?

Bus pass?

I don’t suppose she needs much in it, I did read somewhere that she always has the same make of bag and almost always in black, the same for her shoes.Wonder why that is?

Photo ID aka postage stamp.

Sago

I would love to think it was full of James Bond style gadgets!
A lipstick that’s a mini grenade launcher, pens that can inject deadly poison, hair brushes that are machine guns and a device to track Andrew 24/7.

Sago Your post wins answer of the day!!

A spare Tena pad?

Perhaps she has added a well sharpened stiletto - to sharpen her pencil of course.

I would love to think it was full of James Bond style gadgets!
A lipstick that’s a mini grenade launcher, pens that can inject deadly poison, hair brushes that are machine guns and a device to track Andrew 24/7.

Hankie?

Spare tights/stockings? Surely she can’t be seen with a ladder!

Sorry Urms, I repeated what you had already said

According to her biographer Sally Bedell Smith (courtesy of Mr Google): mirror, lipstick, mints and reading glasses.
Her handbag (a Launer) serves a vital service as signalling various things to her aides eg when she wants to leave.
If she is in a desperate situation, HM puts her bag on the floor

Definitely a lipstick

Spare knickers.

You would imagine she has her glasses in her handbag. Obviously didn’t many years ago when a news clip showed her rummaging (their words not mine) through her handbag, then cooly announcing that her husband, the D of E, would be reading her speech. He proceeded to rattle it off fluently, but it was fairly clear that she was minus her specs that day.

I bet the L in W always has a spare pair in her own handbag since then.

One of those stress gadgets , she would definitely need one if not more..

It gives her something to do with her hands, so that she isn't tempted to clock some of the people she has to chat sweetly with.

I suppose she could ditch the handbag as she always has a LiW nearby with ‘essentials’. That said, I read somewhere that if she’s chatting to someone and wants to move on, she transfers the handbag to her other arm and that’s the signal to her staff.
Clever.

Rennies ?

A little tipple? She deserves it.
Maybe a mobile to play Candy Crush on when she is bored (just joking Ma’am)

I’d bet she’d love an invisibility cloak sometimes. ?‍♀️