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The Queen Mother's Final Year Cost More Than You'll Earn in Your Entire Life

In her final year of life — 2001 to 2002 — the Queen Mother spent approximately four million pounds. Four million pounds in twelve months. She was a hundred and one years old. She had a hundred servants. She was drinking Krug champagne daily. She was maintaining four residences she barely visited. She was keeping racehorses she could no longer watch run. And she was already seven million pounds in debt. Let me walk you through where every penny went. But first, one number. Keep it in your head. Four million divided by three hundred and sixty-five days. That's ten thousand, nine hundred and fifty-nine pounds. Every single day. Call it eleven thousand. Now — in 2001, the median gross annual salary for a full-time worker in the United Kingdom, according to the Office for National Statistics, was twenty thousand and sixty-one pounds. The Queen Mother's household burned through more than half of that before lunch. The full annual salary? Gone in under two days. A minimum wage worker in 2001, earning four pounds ten an hour, would've taken home roughly eight thousand five hundred pounds for an entire year of full-time work. The Queen Mother's operation consumed that in less than nineteen hours. And she did this while carrying debts that would've bankrupted any family in Britain several times over.