An interesting point in today's Guardian. Apparently the 50 or so servants who waited hand and foot on the late departed Queen Mother are now on the dole without (some of them) a roof over their heads, those that is that lived in Grace and Favour accomodation. That includes her butler. The same apparently has happened to the late Margaret's servants. So much for a "sweet old lady" and "everyone's favourite grandmother." I remember my grandmother who was also a young widow and worked hard to bring up a family of five kids and thank God she was nothing like the Queen Mother.