Keep this question please: Does the Queen of England actually do anything politically?
I
have little doubt the Queen works a hell of a lot harder than you or I
do. She doesn't have time to waste on Quora. Her job is relentless.
In
2015, at the age of 89, she attended 306 official engagements at which
she had to greet people, engage in a torturous amount of small talk,
make some appropriate remarks, pose for pictures, comfort the sick,
acknowledge people's achievements, and persuade people to contribute to
one of the many charities she represents. In that same year she also
supported 35 engagements outside of the United Kingdom. And all of that
is a decrease in the norm. At her age, she has started to hand off more
and more of those responsibilities to other members of the family. All
in all, the Royal Family supported 2986 official engagements in 2015.
When
she isn't out at engagements, she has a steady flow of meetings and
investitures at the palace. The mornings may be full of short meetings
with visiting diplomats and charity heads and the evenings may be booked
with official dinners. Every Wednesday she meets with the Prime
Minister.
She has three private secretaries
that she works with each day to schedule events and handle
correspondance. The Queen receives hundreds of letters every day and
personally replies to a small subset of them.
Every
morning of the year, except for Christmas Day and Easter, she receives a
large red box containing state papers that she is required to read and
sometimes sign. She is required to keep up with the events of the 53
nations of the Commonwealth.
Last year, when
the Queen turned 90, it was announced that she would be handing over 25
of her charities and organizations patronages to other members of the
family, as an admittance of getting older. She is still the patron to
around 600 organizations.
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