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Pryderi

(6,772 posts) Mon Jul 30, 2012, 11:24 AM Jul 2012

Guess What's in Queen Elizabeth's Purse.

What do you think she keeps in there?

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Guess What's in Queen Elizabeth's Purse. (Original Post) Pryderi Jul 2012 OP

Brass knuckles and her spare parachute phantom power Jul 2012 #1

Pin money in case she needs a ride home? Scuba Jul 2012 #2

I'm assuming she has her driver's license - in case she's ID when buying liquor LynneSin Jul 2012 #3

Not only can she drive but dynasaw Jul 2012 #7

Packet of fags and a hip-flask tjwmason Jul 2012 #4

Sonic Screw Driver n/t YankeyMCC Jul 2012 #5

Daimond dentures? Perhaps a gold-plated, um, you know. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #6

Sucrets. Bertha Venation Jul 2012 #8

I found an article!!! Pryderi Jul 2012 #9

phantom power

(25,966 posts)

1. Brass knuckles and her spare parachute

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 11:27 AM

Jul 2012

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

2. Pin money in case she needs a ride home?

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 11:28 AM

Jul 2012

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)

3. I'm assuming she has her driver's license - in case she's ID when buying liquor

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 11:29 AM

Jul 2012

dynasaw

(998 posts)

7. Not only can she drive but

Reply to LynneSin (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 11:43 AM

Jul 2012

she could probably get out and fix her car if it broke down. She was an auto mechanic during world War II.

tjwmason

(14,819 posts)

4. Packet of fags and a hip-flask

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 11:30 AM

Jul 2012

Ready for a quick puff and swig when the cameras are turned away.

YankeyMCC

(8,401 posts)

5. Sonic Screw Driver n/t

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 11:32 AM

Jul 2012

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

6. Daimond dentures? Perhaps a gold-plated, um, you know.

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 11:34 AM

Jul 2012

Bertha Venation

(21,484 posts)

8. Sucrets.

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 12:27 PM

Jul 2012

From 1963.

Pryderi

(6,772 posts)

9. I found an article!!!

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 01:11 PM

Jul 2012

Bedell Smith, writing in The Lady magazine, disclosed that the handbag usually contains reading glasses, mint lozenges and a fountain pen, although rarely cash, except for the “precisely folded” £5 or £10 note on Sundays.
A dinner guest at the Berkshire home of Jean Wills, the Queen’s cousin, is said to have been surprised to see the Queen spitting into a plastic suction cup before attaching the hook under the table.
“I watched the Queen open her handbag and remove a white suction cup and discreetly spit into it,” the guest is quoted as saying.
“The Queen then attached the cup to the underside of the table. The cup had a hook on it, and she attached her handbag to it.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/04/queen-elizabeth-purse_n_1254541.html

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