Her Majesty Takes the Train to King’s Lynn for Holiday
The Queen was able to discreetly board the 1045 train to King’s Lynn from Kings Cross today with few passengers aware of her presence on board. The Monarch, 83, purchased a £44.40 first class ticket and accompanied by a sole detective rode the train to Norfolk to begin her holiday Christmas break with a routine service train ride. The Queen will be holidaying at Sandringham.
Not only did Her Majesty ride the regular service train, she was also happy to have the occasion documented by a single photographer invited along for that very purpose. The Queen seemed to enjoy her 100 mile long trip, which is not her first encounter using public transport.
The move comes at a time when she has been attempting to negotiate a raise from her current Civil List payment of £7.9 million from the Treasury. It has also been speculated that she may have been attempting to counteract Prince Charles controversial move when he travelled to the Copenhagen Climate Change talks in a private jet.
Officials at Buckingham Palace have insisted that the Queen regularly uses public train services when it is deemed appropriate, and that the Monarch used this same service last year to begin her Christmas holiday. Additionally, they added that security ensured that the Queen sat alone in the 12-seater section of the first class compartment, but they urged that it would have been open up to the public had the rest of the compartments become full.
Just last month, the Queen was also spotted using public train transport when her and Prince Philip took a regularly scheduled train service in Ipswich to rendezvous with their family friends, Lord and Lady Tollemache for a shooting weekend.
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