Queen Elizabeth certainly knows how to accessorize. You'd be hard pressed to find as picture of Her Majesty without one of her signature Launer handbags. She reportedly owns more than 200 of them!
But just as the Queen has a few fascinating secrets about herself, there's more to these purses than meets the eye. In a fashion that echoes the suave subtlety of James Bond, Queen Elizabeth uses her purse to send secret messages to her staff.
These signals help her get out of conversations at any time she pleases. If the Queen moves her classic handbag from it's normal spot on her left arm to her right arm while she's talking with someone, her handlers know that she wants to wrap it up. Putting her handbag on the floor is a sign she needs to be saved from an uncomfortable encounter ASAP. If she's at dinner and places it on the table, that means she wants to end the event in the next five minutes.
As for what the Queen keeps in her bag, the royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith says the items aren't all that different from what normal women carry with them: a mirror, lipstick, mind lozenges and reading glasses. That proves Her Majesty knows how to be practical and fashionable.
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