Queen Elizabeth photographed walking among her HUGE stash of gold bars

[devil21]

http://www.tmz.com/2012/12/14/queen-elizabeth-gold-digger/?adid=center_saga

Yeah its TMZ but I follow that too in case something like this comes up. Is she putting on a tungsten show? Bank of England is reported location.

 

[thoughtomator]

I don't think she owns much, if any of that. BoE is a prime storage location for other nations' gold, and Gordon Brown famously sold off quite a bit of the UK's gold at a rock-bottom price of $200 - right before the huge ramp up to today's $1700 price.

 

[devil21]

So much photshop material in these pics. Anybody?

Make em go viral.

(btw, does anyone know if the Queen, any Queen or King actually, has ever been openly photographed or even reported as walking in a vault of gold?)

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

Chocolate bars !

 

[Steven Douglas]

 

[angelatc]

The caption says that it is the gold of the Bank of England.

 

[Seraphim]

I wish I had ONE of those bricks...

 

[Dr.3D]

Looks like they are watching her closely. Guess they don't want her putting one of those gold bricks into her little purse.

 

[Matt Collins]

 

[Matt Collins]

Ok, something's up.


They let the science guy in the above video come in and shoot a documentary in there. And then they have the Queen parading through today?



Sounds to me like they are trying to do some sort of positive PR campaign, you don't just let people in your vault like that without a real good reason. My guess is these photo ops are designed to bolster some sort of confidence in their bank or their currency or something of that nature. They are definitely up to something.

 

[LibForestPaul]

The caption says that it is the gold of the Bank of England.

Define Bank Of England. Defing The gold of.

"formally the Governor and Company of the Bank of England,"
"and to this day it still acts as the banker for Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"

 

[Confederate]

She doesn't own any of it....

 

[Confederate]

Define Bank Of England. Defing The gold of.

"formally the Governor and Company of the Bank of England,"
"and to this day it still acts as the banker for Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"

The Monarch doesn't own it, it is owned by "The Crown" which is the sovereign entity, not the monarch.

Although it may say "Her Majesty's" it does not belong to her or the Royal Family at all.

 

[DFF]

I wish I had ONE of those bricks...

Me too...400 ounces X 1700 per ounce = $680,000...real wealth that's really word up.

 

[Zippyjuan]

The Monarch doesn't own it, it is owned by "The Crown" which is the sovereign entity, not the monarch.

Although it may say "Her Majesty's" it does not belong to her or the Royal Family at all.

Actually it says "Her Majesty's government" - not just "Her Majesty" so it does not even belong to "the crown". She is a figurehead but has no real ruling powers.

"and to this day it still acts as the banker for Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"

Her personal net worth is estimated to be about $450 million. http://www.celebritynetworth.com/ar...eads-state/#!/15-queen-elizabeth-ii-net_1244/

 

[DFF]

"Estimated"....

If the Kind of Thailand is a billionaire...you can bet your ass the Queen of England is as well...many, many, many times over...

 

[devil21]

"Estimated"....

If the Kind of Thailand is a billionaire...you can bet your ass the Queen of England is as well...many, many, many times over...

+rep DFF. I wish you'd post more often like you used to.

Nevermind the Saudis and other much more recent Royal families. The Crown has been tossing people's shit for thousands of years.

Not since a few big oil fields were discovered.

 

[Demigod]

+rep DFF. I wish you'd post more often like you used to.

Nevermind the Saudis and other much more recent Royal families. The Crown has been tossing people's shit for thousands of years.

Not since a few big oil fields were discovered.

Make it a few hundred and you would be right,and England for most of time was not known as the wealthy part of Europe.Also one king with a bad addiction usually pissed most of the wealth in his life time no matter if it was spent on war or building palaces ( building stupid things has destroyed more kingdoms than war ).

The only uber-rich monarch in Europe is the Pope.Now that is royalty with almost unlimited wealth that has ruled for thousands of years.

Now I am not saying that they are poor but almost all of them depend on property as their main income ( tourism ),unlike the Sheikhs who own the Oil and the taxes go to them directly which is not the case with European monarchies who either have no control in government affairs or have no taxes like Monaco and Lichtenstein.

 

[2young2vote]

Why doesn't that gold tarnish when sitting in the air like that?

 

[pmbug]

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Sounds to me like they are trying to do some sort of positive PR campaign, ...

Why doesn't that gold tarnish when sitting in the air like that?

Not sure if serious, but gold does not tarnish or oxidize. There is a reason (several actually) that it has served as money for thousands of years.