Lunch meeting

While walking toward the meeting room, Queen opened up about her meeting.

She kept in close contact with the prime minister and was regularly updated on all important national matters. Weekly meetings between the pair have taken place since she became the monarch in 1952.

" That's impressive. You have been doing it for fifty years." Jane said with admiration.

" It's nothing special. They tell me what is going on or if they have any problems, and sometimes I can help in some way.

They know I can be impartial, and it is nice to feel one is a sponge.

Occasionally one can put one's point of view, and perhaps they have not seen it from that angle."

No special advisers attended, and there was no official record of what was said. It was completely private.

The British monarch no longer had political power but maintained key ceremonial duties related to Parliament.