Queen's not so cosy home - do you have any clothes that match your furnishings?

Even her shoes look uncomfortable.......although I did read somewhere that she has someone to 'wear her shoes 'in' for her'.

Skirt with carpet.......not a good look Queenie.

I think Queen Beatrix looks as if she's fun to be with. Look at her smile. Really nice.

The hat just about completes Queen Bea's outfit and the photo in general doesn't it gracesmum.
Pity actually that the electric wire did not trip up smug-face Keys who was so discourteous as to release this pic after her hospitality.

I do not like the 2 plugs in the skirting, I would think 1 is for the fire. I hate wires lying on a floor. One could trip over them

It's the hat!!

I have no idea whether HM is stingy about heating costs but I do know that Buck House is notorious for its staff's low rates of pay.

Here is a pic of another queen with an interesting juxtaposition of patterns - furniture, flowers, frock and hat

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Perish the thought kitty even after all my chucking away my lounge/livingroom/dining room/DH study has quite a few things in it. Anyone want to buy some camera kit? Big wooden box made by my GF, cunningly disguised under a yellow blanket?

Penstemmon

As I sit here in my sitting room (no heating on yet!) I have a radiator and a log fire made up but unlit. I have a sofa & two chairs with porridge covers, a neutral coloured rug and walls..all sounds a bit bland until I look at the six non co-ordinated cushions of different colours/designs all depicting London in some way. 14 bookshelves with books and knick-knacks and family photos acquired from all kinds of places /times. There is a hobby horse in one corner, a basket of baby toys, a basket of logs, a music system on a low cupboard, various dangley glass things at the windows, a rather jaded pot plant and an assortment of lamps, LP sleeves displayed on the wall plus a cartoon of London.. eclectic I think...I am feeling quite royal

I can't over the amount of 'stuff' in the photo. I thought I had a lot of stuff, but am very relieved that even the Queen has more than I do. Mind you, she doesn't have to dust it all - and mind you I don't do dusting either until I'm crawling through the cobwebs. I find these snippets of everyday life at the palace[s] fascinating I must admit

kitty Very true.
bags and a very big

I'm worried now - aren't all sitting rooms/lounges, even houses, organic? Am I the only person who doesn't throw everything away every so often to up date a room? Our rooms evolve!

Sorry thatbags phrased that badly - I meant "needed to know the answers" to the queries you raised. Just saying.

OK. It's fine if people want to stereotype speculatively. It's fine if people want to comment on HM's sitting room decor.

And it's also fine for me to take such things seriously if I so wish and to say if speculative stereotyping pisses me off, especially when it comes from people who object vociferously to other kinds of stereotyping.

What's the difference between me saying what I think and someone else doing so?

What's the difference between my not being amused by something and others not being amused by something I find amusing?

What has 'need' got to do with it?

I'm joining in on a thread is all. Same as everyone else. Just because I dont want to do it the same way as most other people is FINE! (not shouting, just saying with emphasis).

I've got a two bar one like that. Son tells me never to use it. Says they're dangerous! (dunno why )

at putting on the red lipstick!

It was one of those 2 bar affairs with a parabolic reflector behind gracesmum that you might have spotted, Not even a convector. Just like electric fires in the 1950s, so ministry of works may not be too far off the pace.
I have a porridge coloured tailored linen/cotton jacket that would probably make me disappear against my new porridge coloured IKEA chair. Rushes off to put on some red lipstick...

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/379672/The-Queen-shows-off-her-two-bar-electric-fire

From my experience of houses in Scotland, especially the older sort (NOT that I have ever lived in a palace or castle) even with the central heating on it is bl**dy cold and not just in Winter!! I think HM's wee convector heater is an expensive way of topping up the heating, my parents had one in "summer" when they didnt light the fire and I had one in my bedroom to thaw my clothes out in the morning before getting dressed.
What is wrong with speculating anyway? I don't think we needed to know all the queries you raise bags to have an opinion on HM's choice of decor, if indeed it is her choice. I seem to remember a small convector heater in the fireplace of the room in Buckingham Palace where she has her weekly audience with the PM. Probably standard issue from Ministry oif Public Buildings and Works. The knicknacks and matchy matchy skirt are presumably her choice i.e. when at Balmoral, wear Balmoral tartan.

Thatbags I'm surprised that you're taking this thread so seriously, and seem to worry that other members might think that the queen relies on the little heater for warmth, and we don't know that Scotland can get very cold!

Also, I think the queen is fair game for 'speculative stereotyping'.

I took a look at HM's room. She has every right to please herself regarding décor. Nowt wrong with that.

don't we do that all the time on GN??????

Exactly, jings.

A stereotype based on speculation rather than actual knowledge, ogm. We don't really know how that room is heated, or the rest of Balmoral, or how much private time HM spends in it, etc.