What Does Queen Elizabeth Give Her Workers At Christmas?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Christmas is approaching and many companies prepare gifts to have a detail with the people who work for them on such intimate dates. Queen Elizabeth could not be less.

Over the years, the ways of ordering gifts changed. Previously, the heads of various stores, such as the famous department store Harrods, selected a variety of things so that the queen could inspect and choose without leaving her Buckingham palace.

“The gifts were displayed in two large rooms in the palace, on the tables. It looked like his own mall. Now that he's older, he doesn't want to spend his energy on those things,”a source tells The Sun.

Two people from his private office are now carrying out the noble commission. They choose gifts from the Buckingham Palace Gift Shop website itself. The benefits of the gift shop go to the Royal Collection Trust, founded by the queen herself in order to manage the private art collection owned by the royal family, so that everything stays at home.

"In the end, the gifts are usually a book or a piece of porcelain, although sometimes a Christmas pudding is also added," says the former palace employee who spoke with the aforementioned medium. Once the decorous moment has arrived, the employees queue to greet the queen one by one, who usually dedicates a few words of thanks for the service provided.

The Queen's budget for Christmas gifts is £ 30,000, about $ 40,000, which she shares among the 620 gifts to distribute to her secretaries, valets, and footmen.