It is coming next week - the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. June 2, 2022. It goes from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th. Every week on the royal.uk website is a "Royal Week." There's a picture highlighting each week and it is all part of "The Platinum Jubilee Image Countdown."
How many people does the Queen meet on a weekly basis? I don't see anything on that, but one can find out her typical daily schedule. It is divided into mornings, afternoons and evenings. It never gives any number of people or events. The number of letters is said to be 300 letters each day. I expect more than one lady-in-waiting handles the ones she doesn't respond to.
She doesn't just wake up: "The Queen wakes from her slumber each morning at 7:30 am. She stays in bed for a few minutes, listening to the "Today" program on BBC Radio 4."
What next? "The Queen receives assistance from her long-serving personal assistant, Angela Kelly, who draws the Queen's bath, ensuring that it's the correct temperature using a wood-cased thermometer. The bathwater will be precisely seven inches deep." She does two hours of "paperwork" in the morning, and then meets with dignitaries for two hours. And how about her lunch at 1:30pm? "The Queen enjoys light meals with impeccable presentation. Apparently, all vegetables on her plate must be of equal size."
Reading through that summary, it seems to me that the Queen might be alone a fair amount of time, or that what is left out is all the people that she is with and does meet. When the article was written Prince Phillip was alive, and it says he didn't live at the Palace. So she would have been busy with a lot of people, it seems to me.
You can read that schedule HERE. It is similar to others that are published.
Haven't you wondered why the Queen looks younger in pictures than one would expect? I found this picture of her on the royal website. That seems to me to be closer to what one would expect.
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